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Health and disability green paper: Work and Pensions Committee Chair “mindful” of effects of reform on vulnerable
Today the Government announced reforms to health and disability social security support when they published ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working’. This has particularly focused on changes to incapacity and disability benefits as well as health assessments. The Government has said that the reforms will enable more people with chronic long term health conditions, or who are disabled, to return to and stay in work.
18 March 2025
Pensions dashboards: MPs to examine progress on one-stop shop for pension info
The Work and Pensions Committee will hold an evidence session examining progress towards delivering online pensions dashboards that would enable people to find information on all their pension pots and their value in one place.
28 February 2025
MPs to probe councils’ role in lifting pensioners out of poverty
MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee will hold an evidence session on the role of local authorities and housing associations in tackling pensioner poverty.
20 February 2025
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26 March 2025
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Pensioner Poverty: challenges and mitigations - Oral evidence
26 March 2025
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- Dr Juliet Stone (Research Fellow at Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University)
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