Department For Work And Pensions

Author : Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780101644723
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department for Work and Pensions Five Year Strategy written by Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The welfare state of the 20th century was designed to provide support from the cradle to the grave, but the changing demographic profile of Britain - longer life-spans mean that by 2007 the number of people over state pension age will exceed the number of children - presents a challenge to such a system of support. This plan sets out the Government's strategy of aiming for an 80 per cent employment rate as the best means of keeping people out of poverty, and allowing saving for a secure retirement. Such an aspiration requires the movement into work of a proportion of those people traditionally seen as outside the labour market and with complex barriers preventing entry into that market. Supporting these inactive people into employment will require carefully tailored support. The strategy outlines the approach in three major areas: (1) supporting children and families, including helping lone parents into gainful work; (2) helping those on incapacity benefits to return to work; (3) breaking down barriers to employment faced by disabled people, older workers and ethnic minorities.

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Author : Great Britain. National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102954630
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department for Work and Pensions written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of carers who receive benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are satisfied with the support they receive, worth up to GBP 2 billion a year. The Department is delivering carers' benefits effectively and has made improvements in processing claims over years.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0215032004
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department for Work and Pensions written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) provides services to some 28 million people and, despite the development of new technology, printed materials such as leaflets play an important role in ensuring that customers are informed of services and entitlements. Following on from a NAO report (HC 797, session 2005-06; ISBN 9780102936728) published in January 2006, the Committee's report focuses on three issues: managing the process for producing accurate leaflets; accessibility of information for a diverse range of customers; and making information available to the public. Findings include: i) the DWP has reduced its total number of published leaflets from 245 to 178 and is committed to making an overall reduction of 100; ii) the DWP is unable to determine the exact cost of producing leaflets, which has been estimated at £31 million in 2004-05; iii) around 40 per cent of the 27 different leaflets tested by the NAO across the country were out of date, and all 13 of the Department's key leaflets tested required a reading age higher than the national average; and iv) leaflets are not easily accessible to groups such as those with disabilities or non-English speakers, and copies of four core departmental leaflets examined were available at only 11 per cent of key non-departmental locations such as libraries and Citizens' Advice offices visited by the NAO.

Author : Peter W. Halligan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198515545
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malingering and Illness Deception written by Peter W. Halligan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a rich and turbulent history spanning several centuries, malingering continues to be a controversial and neglected clinical condition that has significant implications for medical, social, legal and insurance interests. Estimates of malingering - the wilful, intentional attempt to simulate or exaggerate illness in the pursuit of a consciously desired end - vary greatly, despite the fact that malingering is believed to contribute substantially to fraudulent health care and social welfare costs. There is little consensus about what would constitute a coherent assessment of malingering, and base rates have been difficult to establish. Malingering remains a difficult attribution to make not least since it falls outside the remit of the formal psychiatric classifications. Labelling a person as a malingerer however, has significant medico-legal, personal and economic ramifications for both subject and accuser. Viewed in this way, malingering is not so much illness behavior in search of a disease, as the manifestation of a conflict between personal and social values. The aim of this book is to effect an integration of the different medical, forensic, neuropsychological, legal and social perspectives. The book provides an overview of progress in disparate fields relevant to the subject, including how recent social and neuroscience findings regarding volition, intentional states and theory of mind may have implications for informing detection, management and ultimately its explanation.

Author : Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474102629
Total Pages : 35 pages
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Download or read book A Review of Powers of Entry by the Department for Work and Pensions written by Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0102935629
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaining and Retaining a Job written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, of the 6.7 million disabled people of working age in Britain, 50 per cent were in employment compared to 75 per cent of the working age population as a whole. The Government has made a commitment to increase the employment rate of disabled people and to reduce the difference between their employment rate and the overall rate by 2006. This NAO report examines the barriers faced by disabled people in finding and retaining employment, the specialist programmes and schemes provided by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to address this issue, the quality and accessibility of support available, and the cost effectiveness of such schemes. The report finds that the DWP funds a broad range of schemes (which are managed by Jobcentre Plus and contracted out to a range of providers in the public, private and voluntary sectors) and is on course to meet its target for increasing the employment rate of disabled people. However, more progress is needed to ensure such programmes benefit a wider number of people, and recommendations made include the need to establish a more flexible modular approach to programmes; to improve data collection and verification schemes to monitor services; to promote enhanced efficiency through better contracting; to provide greater support and training for advisers; to improve the cost effectiveness of Remploy businesses and to ensure better support to help individuals find alternative employment if necessary; and for the DWP to develop a clearer strategy for engaging with employers at a local level.

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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Miscellaneous Publications of the Department for Work and Pensions written by Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stationery Office, The
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ISBN 13 : 9780101549226
Total Pages : 27 pages
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Download or read book Department for Work and Pensions written by Stationery Office, The and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780101873727
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Department for Work and Pensions: Public Consultation: Better Workplace Pensions: A Consultation on Charging - Cm. 8737 written by Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Government is proposing to introduce a system of automatic pensions transfers to help people to better keep track of their workplace pension savings. The majority of people being automatically enrolled are likely to join the default fund in defined contribution (DC) schemes. It is, therefore, important to ensure that these schemes deliver the best possible value for money. The impact of the charges levied on people's pensions savings over their lifetime can be significant - seemingly small variations in charges can result in a considerable difference in people's final retirement savings. A number of voluntary industry initiatives seeking to improve disclosure of charges information to scheme members and employers have been launched in an effort to reduce the complexity of the product. The Government welcomes these initiatives, but is interested in views on whether further action is required. There are a number of potential options: mandating disclosure to members by widening the disclosure requirements, to include information about charges; standardising disclosure to employers; or disclosure of transaction costs - require disclosure to members, employers, as well as trustees, and independent governance committees (as recommended by the OFT). The Government is also interested in hearing views on whether: a cap on pension scheme charges should be introduced; differential charging between active and deferred members should be banned in DC qualifying schemes; the ban on consultancy charges should be extended from AE schemes to all qualifying DC schemes; adviser commissions set up prior to the introduction of the Retail Distribution Review should be banned in qualifying schemes