DWP

Stewart Dick discusses the issues advisers need to bear in mind when carrying out pension transfers

The DWP claims 56% of employers and 64% of eligible individuals support government plans for auto-enrolment into workplace pension schemes.

The Government has announced a policy of cutting across all departments. Peter Barnett assesses what this regime of a thousand cuts means for the protection and health intermediary

Legal & General has applauded the "laudable ambitions" of today's 21st Century Welfare consultation paper and believes the protection industry is the perfect partner to assist the Government in welfare reform.

Benefit claimants currently too sick to work could face losing their payments if they do not go back into employment.

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.