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A single state benefit could be moving a step nearer today with the publication of a consultation paper on the future of the welfare state.

Disability Living Allowance (DLA) does not incentivise work and there is still a widespread belief among claimants that they would be better off on benefit than in work, according to a new report.

A number of consumer groups have warned the DWP a "too broad" review of the 2012 reforms would compromise the "hard-won consensus" on auto-enrolment.

Iain Duncan Smith, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has vowed to press ahead with the previous Labour government's plan to review the work capability of all 2.5 million people claiming incapacity benefit.

The coalition government will take a "long hard look" at auto-enrolment and the delivery of NEST before deciding on its future, Steve Webb says.

The pensions savings marketplace could be re-energised with just a few changes to the original simplification proposals never adopted in the RIA, writes John Moret, Suffolk Life's director of marketing.

State investment in British business will be cut by £636m this year, as Chancellor George Osborne seeks to drive a "private sector recovery".

Chris Grayling looks set to be named as the new pensions minister under the new Con-Lib coalition Government.

The Department of Work and Pensions has released monthly and quarterly statistics in its April 2010 Statistical Summary.

Government proposals to enable Pension Protection Fund compensation to be shared in the event of divorce will place administrative strain on the PPF, a consultant says.