Housing Benefit helps those on a low income in social or private housing to pay all or part of their rent, and supported some five million households in Great Britain in 2011-12 at a cost of £23.4 billion.
A previous NAO report in 2002 'Tackling pensioner poverty: encouraging take-up of entitlements (ISBN 9780102919578) examined efforts by the Department for Work and Pensions to increase the take-up of benefits by pensioners; and it was ...
... departments and other agencies who help meet carers '. PART FOUR The Department's work with partners The Department works with other organisations involved in caring 4.1 The needs of carers extend beyond the Department's responsibilities ...
... WORK PROGRAMME PRIME PROVIDERS The contracts for the Work Programme prime providers do not contain any requirement ... departments and builds extensively on existing support that is already available , including the support currently being ...
... Department , Jobcentre Plus and the Pensions , Disability and Carers Service on recording and acting on complaints , and on the adequacy and costs of the complaints process . 3 C & AG's Report , The Department Work and Pensions ...