Department for Work and Pensions

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. DWP is a ministerial department, supported by 12 agencies and public bodies.

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions

Ministers

• The Rt Hon Mel Stride MP
  Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
• Guy Opperman MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Employment)
• Tom Pursglove MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work)
• Mims Davies MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Social Mobility, Youth and Progression)
• Laura Trott MBE MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Pensions)
• Viscount Younger of Leckie
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Lords)

Petitions linked to this department

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• Keep the state pension at 67 for those born before 1977
  Opened on Tuesday 29th April 2025
  12 signatures so far

• Require employers to provide 6 days of fully paid sick leave each year
  Opened on Tuesday 29th April 2025
  21 signatures so far

• Review Workplace Protections for Disabled People
  Opened on Tuesday 29th April 2025
  19 signatures so far

• Statutory time-off on full pay for parents who experience pregnancy loss
  Opened on Tuesday 29th April 2025
  25 signatures so far

• Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy
  Opened on Monday 28th April 2025
  855 signatures so far

• Keep the LCWRA Universal Credit component for under 22's
  Opened on Thursday 24th April 2025
  140 signatures so far

• Repeal the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023
  Opened on Thursday 24th April 2025
  14 signatures so far

• Review enforcement of break time rules in the private care sector
  Opened on Tuesday 22nd April 2025
  13 signatures so far

• Review the PIP assessment process to adjust for neurodivergence and trauma
  Opened on Tuesday 22nd April 2025
  96 signatures so far

• Require all employers to give full-time employees 30 days annual leave
  Opened on Thursday 17th April 2025
  74 signatures so far

• Do not refer to the state pensions as a benefit
  Opened on Thursday 17th April 2025
  74 signatures so far

• Scrap the ‘3-Month Before and 9-Month After’ Rule for PIP Eligibility
  Opened on Wednesday 16th April 2025
  50 signatures so far

• Make suicide at or caused by work reportable to Health and Safety Executive
  Opened on Wednesday 16th April 2025
  28 signatures so far

• Reduce the qualifying period for workplace pensions for emergency servicemen
  Opened on Wednesday 16th April 2025
  10 signatures so far

• Protect Disability Benefits: Stop Changes to PIP and Universal Credit
  Opened on Monday 14th April 2025
  793 signatures so far

• Stop PIP Cuts: Protect Support for Disabled People
  Opened on Monday 14th April 2025
  852 signatures so far

• Remove the 26-week rule & allow fathers to take paternity leave immediately.
  Opened on Friday 11th April 2025
  20 signatures so far

• Protect Disabled people who cannot work from planned cuts to benefits
  Opened on Tuesday 8th April 2025
  16,425 signatures so far

• Review and support the continued operation of pubs to prevent more closures
  Opened on Tuesday 8th April 2025
  2,789 signatures so far

• Review PIP eligibility criteria and award payments based on medical diagnoses
  Opened on Tuesday 8th April 2025
  238 signatures so far

• Abolish the Minimum Income Floor in Universal Credit.
  Opened on Tuesday 8th April 2025
  30 signatures so far

• Introduce bereavement leave for a pet dying
  Opened on Monday 7th April 2025
  43 signatures so far

• Ensure employers pensions contributions are a minimum of ten percent
  Opened on Friday 4th April 2025
  18 signatures so far

• Make redundancy illegal whilst on maternity leave/for 6 months after
  Opened on Tuesday 1st April 2025
  31 signatures so far

• Reduce the state pension age for women due to menopause symptoms
  Opened on Tuesday 1st April 2025
  38 signatures so far

• Create a version of the European Accessibility Act (EAA)
  Opened on Monday 31st March 2025
  41 signatures so far

• Equalise the minimum wage for 18-20 year olds and 21+ workers
  Opened on Monday 31st March 2025
  35 signatures so far

• Change cold weather payments so it's a daily payment
  Opened on Friday 28th March 2025
  20 signatures so far

• Extend universal credit payments to cover 53 week rent years
  Opened on Thursday 27th March 2025
  45 signatures so far

• Take action to improve waiting times for access to work applications
  Opened on Thursday 27th March 2025
  431 signatures so far

• Ban workplace or private pensions being considered in divorce settlements
  Opened on Wednesday 26th March 2025
  29 signatures so far

• Change child maintenance liability so it's not based on income
  Opened on Wednesday 26th March 2025
  23 signatures so far

• Raise statutory maternity/paternity pay to match the National Living Wage
  Opened on Tuesday 18th March 2025
  16,334 signatures so far

• Improve the Financial Assistance Scheme for pensioners
  Opened on Tuesday 18th March 2025
  2,386 signatures so far

• Review powers of Child Maintenance Service regarding concealed income
  Opened on Monday 17th March 2025
  21 signatures so far

• Make "ghost jobs" illegal
  Opened on Friday 14th March 2025
  168 signatures so far

• Close the child maintenance payment loophole for parents working abroad
  Opened on Thursday 13th March 2025
  35 signatures so far

• Require pension providers to contact their customers every 5 years
  Opened on Wednesday 12th March 2025
  30 signatures so far

• Amend the Health and Safety Act to make mental health training mandatory
  Opened on Tuesday 11th March 2025
  501 signatures so far

• Incorporate the UNCRDP into domestic law and appoint a Secretary of State
  Opened on Monday 10th March 2025
  576 signatures so far

• Reduce the time required to qualify for Cold Weather Payments
  Opened on Monday 10th March 2025
  33 signatures so far

• Postgraduate loans for tuition fees should not count as income for benefits
  Opened on Thursday 6th March 2025
  21 signatures so far

• Give automatic equal benefits rights to separated parents who are co-parenting
  Opened on Monday 3rd March 2025
  46 signatures so far

• Change the options so that pensions can be paid monthly
  Opened on Friday 28th February 2025
  28 signatures so far

• Photograph all claimants for DWP Benefits
  Opened on Thursday 27th February 2025
  71 signatures so far

• Change the ‘whole month’ approach to change of circumstances in Universal Credit
  Opened on Tuesday 25th February 2025
  45 signatures so far

• Introduce a tapered approach to the Winter Fuel Allowance.
  Opened on Thursday 20th February 2025
  56 signatures so far

• Reinstate the Winter Fuel Allowance for those who are paid the old state pension
  Opened on Thursday 13th February 2025
  200 signatures so far

• Pension credit: Allow claim if your partner is under state pension age
  Opened on Friday 7th February 2025
  27 signatures so far

• Introduce employment rights for sex workers
  Opened on Thursday 30th January 2025
  205 signatures so far

• Don't have an earnings limit for Carer's Allowance
  Opened on Thursday 30th January 2025
  71 signatures so far

• Provide day 1 financial support to parents caring for a seriously ill child
  Opened on Wednesday 29th January 2025
  16,598 signatures so far

• Pause Employment Rights Bill to assess impacts on SMEs
  Opened on Tuesday 28th January 2025
  47 signatures so far

• Create a scheme to help younger people get work experience.
  Opened on Wednesday 22nd January 2025
  46 signatures so far

• Pay pensioners the equivalent of the living wage of a 35 hour week.
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  9,061 signatures so far

• Change the CMS to make it more transparent for paying parents
  Opened on Thursday 16th January 2025
  32 signatures so far

• Extend parental bereavement leave after the loss of a child.
  Opened on Wednesday 15th January 2025
  1,298 signatures so far

• Allow state pension recipients to claim full carer’s allowance
  Opened on Wednesday 15th January 2025
  260 signatures so far

• Review the child maintenance service
  Opened on Tuesday 14th January 2025
  675 signatures so far

• Make the state pension the same as the minimum wage for a full time worker
  Opened on Friday 10th January 2025
  138 signatures so far

• Introduce a scheme to pay 15% of heating bill for some over 65s
  Opened on Friday 10th January 2025
  57 signatures so far

• Include investment property mortgages when calculating child maintenance
  Opened on Wednesday 8th January 2025
  17 signatures so far

• Update the Health and Safety at Work Act to be gender neutral
  Opened on Wednesday 8th January 2025
  69 signatures so far

• Stop assessing student loans as income for Universal Credit
  Opened on Thursday 2nd January 2025
  51 signatures so far

• Recognise gambling as a trade and form of income for child maintenance
  Opened on Monday 30th December 2024
  44 signatures so far

• Review of Universal Credit and Job Centre Operations
  Opened on Friday 27th December 2024
  322 signatures so far

• Don’t consider bonus or overtime payments when calculating universal credit
  Opened on Tuesday 24th December 2024
  86 signatures so far

• Scrap the 2-child benefit cap
  Opened on Tuesday 24th December 2024
  282 signatures so far

• Pay all unpaid carers carer's allowance, to recognise and support them
  Opened on Monday 23rd December 2024
  73 signatures so far

• Stop DWP repeating PIP assessments for disabled people
  Opened on Monday 23rd December 2024
  23,060 signatures so far

• Create system for injured veterans to apply for disability benefits

• Create system for injured veterans to apply for disability benefits
  Opened on Monday 23rd December 2024
  50 signatures so far

• Change Universal Credit maximum holiday allowance
  Opened on Monday 23rd December 2024
  28 signatures so far

• Create a scheme to create employment opportunities for homeless people
  Opened on Friday 20th December 2024
  60 signatures so far

• Improve benefits for veterans
  Opened on Friday 20th December 2024
  70 signatures so far

• Create a fast-track system for benefit claims for cancer patients
  Opened on Friday 20th December 2024
  4,704 signatures so far

• Review the Access to Work Scheme
  Opened on Thursday 5th December 2024
  1,347 signatures so far

• Require employers to notify unsuccessful job candidates and give feedback
  Opened on Friday 29th November 2024
  145 signatures so far

• Automatic fast track benefits for anyone diagnosed with a terminal illness.
  Opened on Friday 29th November 2024
  2,212 signatures so far

• Increase the DWP Christmas bonus for benefit claimants to £20
  Opened on Thursday 28th November 2024
  757 signatures so far

• Inform disabled people of high success rate for PIP appeals at tribunal
  Opened on Thursday 28th November 2024
  923 signatures so far

• Ban High-Silica Engineered Stone Worktops.
  Opened on Wednesday 27th November 2024
  234 signatures so far

• Give State Pension to all at 60 and increase it to equal 48hrs at Living Wage
  Opened on Tuesday 26th November 2024
  22,616 signatures so far

• Abolish the basic State Pension, increase the new State Pension and pay to all.
  Opened on Monday 25th November 2024
  5,822 signatures so far

• Give BN(O) visa holders access to funded childcare hours for working parents
  Opened on Monday 25th November 2024
  24 signatures so far

• Introduce a compensation scheme for WASPI women
  Opened on Thursday 21st November 2024
  161,193 signatures so far

• Change rules so parents with 50/50 shared care don’t pay child maintenance
  Opened on Tuesday 19th November 2024
  664 signatures so far

• Stop Means Testing Pensioners and increase the State Pension
  Opened on Monday 11th November 2024
  14,532 signatures so far

• Calculate child maintenance based on net rather than gross pay
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  622 signatures so far

• Hold a Public Inquiry into the state pension age change for 1950s women
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  7,720 signatures so far

• Do not reduce the Right to Buy discount
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  5,152 signatures so far

• Set rules about when a service/venue can describe itself as accessible
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  444 signatures so far

• Stop deducting carer's allowance from income based welfare
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  554 signatures so far

• Don't put an extra duty on vape products
  Opened on Wednesday 6th November 2024
  1,048 signatures so far

• Increase Carer's Allowance to equal minimum wage
  Opened on Tuesday 5th November 2024
  11,277 signatures so far

• Reverse changes to Winter Fuel Payment
  Opened on Tuesday 5th November 2024
  61,952 signatures so far

• Require upkeep and development of demolition sites
  Open from Thursday 16th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  17 signatures

• Remove Permitted Development Rights for all additional street infrastructure
  Open from Monday 13th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  1,207 signatures

• Ensure every Jobcentre has a private room for interviews by the end of 2024
  Open from Friday 10th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  135 signatures

• Require explicit consent for selling and sharing, for money, any personal data
  Open from Thursday 9th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  64 signatures

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