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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Stop DWP repeating PIP assessments for disabled people
  Opened on Monday 23rd December 2024
  3,199 signatures so far

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

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

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

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

• Create a fast-track system for benefit claims for cancer patients
  Opened on Friday 20th December 2024
  3,942 signatures so far

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

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

• Automatic fast track benefits for anyone diagnosed with a terminal illness.
  Opened on Friday 29th November 2024
  1,823 signatures so far

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

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

• Ban High-Silica Engineered Stone Worktops.
  Opened on Wednesday 27th November 2024
  123 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
  19,707 signatures so far

• Abolish the basic State Pension, increase the new State Pension and pay to all.
  Opened on Monday 25th November 2024
  4,125 signatures so far

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

• Introduce a compensation scheme for WASPI women
  Opened on Thursday 21st November 2024
  153,468 signatures so far

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

• Stop Means Testing Pensioners and increase the State Pension
  Opened on Monday 11th November 2024
  12,123 signatures so far

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

• Hold a Public Inquiry into the state pension age change for 1950s women
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  6,363 signatures so far

• Do not reduce the Right to Buy discount
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  3,705 signatures so far

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

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

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

• Reverse changes to Winter Fuel Payment
  Opened on Tuesday 5th November 2024
  58,044 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

• End PIP reassessments for people with life-long conditions
  Open from Wednesday 8th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  2,426 signatures

• Update Universal Credit payments for all claimants from date new rates apply
  Open from Wednesday 8th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  195 signatures

• Do not remove Benefits from those deemed fit to work
  Open from Tuesday 7th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  61 signatures

• Make it a criminal offence for lenders to retain money when fraud is proven
  Open from Tuesday 7th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  26 signatures

• Set a cap for liquidator fees
  Open from Tuesday 7th May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  32 signatures

• Disregard all military pension schemes for tax and other benefit entitlements
  Open from Friday 3rd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  79 signatures

• Review the CMS's approach to tracing non-resident parents
  Open from Thursday 2nd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  79 signatures

• Give all children a pension fund with £100 at birth
  Open from Thursday 2nd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  76 signatures

• Expand eligibility criteria for legal aid to cover all cases for single parents
  Open from Thursday 2nd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  14 signatures

• Make Shared Ownership and Social Housing eligible for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme
  Open from Thursday 2nd May 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  18 signatures

• Reform maternity and paternity pay to extend and increase support
  Open from Tuesday 30th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  2,550 signatures

• Publish list of any planned Post Office closures
  Open from Monday 29th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  39 signatures

• Stop National Insurance payments after reaching 35 years of contributions
  Open from Friday 26th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  39 signatures

• Require council tax reductions for those affected by antisocial behaviour
  Open from Friday 26th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  12 signatures

• Remove the need for employers to apply for work permits for staff under 16
  Open from Thursday 25th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  44 signatures

• Remove benefit reassessments for people with degenerative physical conditions
  Open from Thursday 25th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  2,766 signatures

• Ban all private funding for political parties and fund through taxation
  Open from Thursday 25th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  1,127 signatures

• Stop deducting Carer's Allowance from income-based welfare
  Open from Tuesday 23rd April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  380 signatures

• Give resident freeholders a Right to Manage communal areas on new build estates
  Open from Tuesday 23rd April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  37 signatures

• Hold a Public Inquiry into state pension age changes for women
  Open from Monday 22nd April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  11,791 signatures

• Pay full housing costs for benefit claimants in private rented accommodation
  Open from Monday 22nd April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  20 signatures

• Give all state pensioners the new State Pension
  Open from Friday 19th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  3,449 signatures

• Disregard partner's income for Universal Credit and tax-free childcare
  Open from Thursday 18th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  52 signatures

• Provide interest free finance payment plans for mobility equipment
  Open from Wednesday 17th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  119 signatures

• Create a new short-term benefit for workers who aren't entitled to Sick Pay
  Open from Tuesday 16th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  101 signatures

• Do not class the State Pension as a Benefit
  Open from Tuesday 16th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  69 signatures

• Require HSE to disregard time passed when deciding whether to investigate
  Open from Monday 15th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  9 signatures

• Review how the CMS verifies information and manages enforcement and penalties
  Open from Monday 15th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  82 signatures

• Make it a legal requirement to list an expected salary on job advertisements
  Open from Friday 12th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  38 signatures

• Abolish leasehold ownership in its entirety
  Open from Wednesday 10th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  131 signatures

• Impose new restrictions on political donations and beneficiaries of public funds
  Open from Monday 8th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  462 signatures

• Review and reform VAT for registered mental health service providers
  Open from Monday 8th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  29 signatures

• Fund free sanitary products for homeless people
  Open from Monday 8th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  34 signatures

• Review the Equality Act 2010
  Open from Monday 8th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  36 signatures

• Require pension providers to allow early access for retirement due to ill health
  Open from Thursday 4th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  67 signatures

• Stop differentiating between under/over 25s for Universal Credit
  Open from Thursday 4th April 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  31 signatures

• Raise statutory maternity pay to £250 a week & raise UC during maternity leave
  Open from Thursday 28th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  23 signatures

• Consider child maintenance payments as earnings for calculating benefits
  Open from Friday 22nd March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  30 signatures

• Provide funding to build 90,000 new social homes
  Open from Thursday 21st March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  226 signatures

• Exempt a home owned by people living in tied accommodation from UC calculations
  Open from Wednesday 20th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  15 signatures

• Give people a right to have online/phone/video Universal Credit appointments
  Open from Tuesday 19th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  27 signatures

• Give 500,000 UK overseas State Pensioners with frozen pensions parity
  Open from Friday 15th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  31 signatures

• Introduce: ‘The Sex Workers Discrimination Act'
  Open from Thursday 14th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  55 signatures

• Require all landlords/agencies to accept tenants claiming benefits
  Open from Monday 11th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  26 signatures

• Change Universal Credit Housing Element Rules when rent is set per week
  Open from Thursday 7th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  43 signatures

• Require employers to grant one day off a month for sporting activity
  Open from Wednesday 6th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  11 signatures

• Offer low- or no-interest Government loans to all UK taxpayers
  Open from Wednesday 6th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  20 signatures

• Increase staffing to handle Universal Credit claims and queries
  Open from Monday 4th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  791 signatures

• Extend Sure Start Maternity Grant and Healthy Start to all working mothers
  Open from Monday 4th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  33 signatures

• Increase alcohol tax and use revenue for improving mental health services
  Open from Monday 4th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  21 signatures

• Introduce a national minimum wage for jobs existing within anti-social hours
  Open from Monday 4th March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  86 signatures

• Abolish taxes on the home: Inheritance Tax, Stamp Duty Tax & Capital Gains Tax
  Open from Friday 1st March 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  49 signatures

• Raise the Tax-Free Personal Allowance to £16,000 in the next tax year
  Open from Thursday 29th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  188 signatures

• New benefit for parents in a single or low income household until child is 5
  Open from Thursday 29th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  15 signatures

• Create an optional tax contribution system
  Open from Wednesday 28th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  11 signatures

• Extend the Household Support Fund
  Open from Wednesday 28th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  52 signatures

• Increase statutory maternity leave and pay to 2 years at 75% pay
  Open from Wednesday 28th February 2024 to Wednesday 29th May 2024
  35 signatures

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