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 15 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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• Review Workplace Protections for Disabled People
  Open from Tuesday 29th April 2025 to Wednesday 29th October 2025
  51 signatures

• Statutory time-off on full pay for parents who experience pregnancy loss
  Open from Tuesday 29th April 2025 to Wednesday 29th October 2025
  40 signatures

• Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  11,035 signatures

• Keep the LCWRA Universal Credit component for under 22's
  Open from Thursday 24th April 2025 to Friday 24th October 2025
  180 signatures

• Repeal the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023
  Open from Thursday 24th April 2025 to Friday 24th October 2025
  18 signatures

• Review enforcement of break time rules in the private care sector
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2025 to Wednesday 22nd October 2025
  17 signatures

• Review the PIP assessment process to adjust for neurodivergence and trauma

• Review the PIP assessment process to adjust for neurodivergence and trauma
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2025 to Wednesday 22nd October 2025
  299 signatures

• Require all employers to give full-time employees 30 days annual leave
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  126 signatures

• Do not refer to the state pensions as a benefit
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  288 signatures

• Scrap the ‘3-Month Before and 9-Month After’ Rule for PIP Eligibility
  Open from Wednesday 16th April 2025 to Thursday 16th October 2025
  99 signatures

• Make suicide at or caused by work reportable to Health and Safety Executive
  Open from Wednesday 16th April 2025 to Thursday 16th October 2025
  43 signatures

• Reduce the qualifying period for workplace pensions for emergency servicemen
  Open from Wednesday 16th April 2025 to Thursday 16th October 2025
  15 signatures

• Protect Disability Benefits: Stop Changes to PIP and Universal Credit
  Open from Monday 14th April 2025 to Tuesday 14th October 2025
  2,157 signatures

• Stop PIP Cuts: Protect Support for Disabled People
  Open from Monday 14th April 2025 to Tuesday 14th October 2025
  4,234 signatures

• Remove the 26-week rule & allow fathers to take paternity leave immediately.
  Open from Friday 11th April 2025 to Saturday 11th October 2025
  34 signatures

• Protect Disabled people who cannot work from planned cuts to benefits
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  31,388 signatures

• Review PIP eligibility criteria and award payments based on medical diagnoses
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  397 signatures

• Abolish the Minimum Income Floor in Universal Credit.
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  87 signatures

• Introduce bereavement leave for a pet dying
  Open from Monday 7th April 2025 to Tuesday 7th October 2025
  89 signatures

• Ensure employers pensions contributions are a minimum of ten percent
  Open from Friday 4th April 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025
  24 signatures

• Make redundancy illegal whilst on maternity leave/for 6 months after
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  52 signatures

• Reduce the state pension age for women due to menopause symptoms
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  81 signatures

• Create a version of the European Accessibility Act (EAA)
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  52 signatures

• Equalise the minimum wage for 18-20 year olds and 21+ workers
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  61 signatures

• Change cold weather payments so it's a daily payment
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  26 signatures

• Extend universal credit payments to cover 53 week rent years
  Open from Thursday 27th March 2025 to Saturday 27th September 2025
  67 signatures

• Take action to improve waiting times for access to work applications
  Open from Thursday 27th March 2025 to Saturday 27th September 2025
  573 signatures

• Ban workplace or private pensions being considered in divorce settlements
  Open from Wednesday 26th March 2025 to Friday 26th September 2025
  40 signatures

• Change child maintenance liability so it's not based on income
  Open from Wednesday 26th March 2025 to Friday 26th September 2025
  49 signatures

• Raise statutory maternity/paternity pay to match the National Living Wage
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  107,966 signatures

• Improve the Financial Assistance Scheme for pensioners
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  2,480 signatures

• Review powers of Child Maintenance Service regarding concealed income
  Open from Monday 17th March 2025 to Wednesday 17th September 2025
  39 signatures

• Make "ghost jobs" illegal
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  329 signatures

• Close the child maintenance payment loophole for parents working abroad
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  43 signatures

• Require pension providers to contact their customers every 5 years
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  37 signatures

• Amend the Health and Safety Act to make mental health training mandatory
  Open from Tuesday 11th March 2025 to Thursday 11th September 2025
  544 signatures

• Incorporate the UNCRDP into domestic law and appoint a Secretary of State
  Open from Monday 10th March 2025 to Wednesday 10th September 2025
  1,015 signatures

• Reduce the time required to qualify for Cold Weather Payments
  Open from Monday 10th March 2025 to Wednesday 10th September 2025
  45 signatures

• Postgraduate loans for tuition fees should not count as income for benefits
  Open from Thursday 6th March 2025 to Saturday 6th September 2025
  23 signatures

• Give automatic equal benefits rights to separated parents who are co-parenting
  Open from Monday 3rd March 2025 to Wednesday 3rd September 2025
  58 signatures

• Change the options so that pensions can be paid monthly
  Open from Friday 28th February 2025 to Thursday 28th August 2025
  32 signatures

• Photograph all claimants for DWP Benefits
  Open from Thursday 27th February 2025 to Wednesday 27th August 2025
  82 signatures

• Change the ‘whole month’ approach to change of circumstances in Universal Credit
  Open from Tuesday 25th February 2025 to Monday 25th August 2025
  54 signatures

• Introduce a tapered approach to the Winter Fuel Allowance.
  Open from Thursday 20th February 2025 to Wednesday 20th August 2025
  63 signatures

• Reinstate the Winter Fuel Allowance for those who are paid the old state pension
  Open from Thursday 13th February 2025 to Wednesday 13th August 2025
  434 signatures

• Pension credit: Allow claim if your partner is under state pension age
  Open from Friday 7th February 2025 to Thursday 7th August 2025
  32 signatures

• Introduce employment rights for sex workers
  Open from Thursday 30th January 2025 to Wednesday 30th July 2025
  261 signatures

• Don't have an earnings limit for Carer's Allowance
  Open from Thursday 30th January 2025 to Wednesday 30th July 2025
  86 signatures

• Provide day 1 financial support to parents caring for a seriously ill child
  Open from Wednesday 29th January 2025 to Tuesday 29th July 2025
  19,387 signatures

• Pause Employment Rights Bill to assess impacts on SMEs
  Open from Tuesday 28th January 2025 to Monday 28th July 2025
  49 signatures

• Create a scheme to help younger people get work experience.
  Open from Wednesday 22nd January 2025 to Tuesday 22nd July 2025
  49 signatures

• Pay pensioners the equivalent of the living wage of a 35 hour week.
  Open from Monday 20th January 2025 to Sunday 20th July 2025
  15,597 signatures

• Change the CMS to make it more transparent for paying parents
  Open from Thursday 16th January 2025 to Wednesday 16th July 2025
  45 signatures

• Extend parental bereavement leave after the loss of a child.
  Open from Wednesday 15th January 2025 to Tuesday 15th July 2025
  1,596 signatures

• Allow state pension recipients to claim full carer’s allowance
  Open from Wednesday 15th January 2025 to Tuesday 15th July 2025
  284 signatures

• Review the child maintenance service
  Open from Tuesday 14th January 2025 to Monday 14th July 2025
  746 signatures

• Make the state pension the same as the minimum wage for a full time worker
  Open from Friday 10th January 2025 to Thursday 10th July 2025
  204 signatures

• Introduce a scheme to pay 15% of heating bill for some over 65s
  Open from Friday 10th January 2025 to Thursday 10th July 2025
  63 signatures

• Include investment property mortgages when calculating child maintenance
  Open from Wednesday 8th January 2025 to Tuesday 8th July 2025
  17 signatures

• Update the Health and Safety at Work Act to be gender neutral
  Open from Wednesday 8th January 2025 to Tuesday 8th July 2025
  72 signatures

• Stop assessing student loans as income for Universal Credit
  Open from Thursday 2nd January 2025 to Wednesday 2nd July 2025
  54 signatures

• Recognise gambling as a trade and form of income for child maintenance
  Open from Monday 30th December 2024 to Monday 30th June 2025
  44 signatures

• Review of Universal Credit and Job Centre Operations
  Open from Friday 27th December 2024 to Friday 27th June 2025
  339 signatures

• Don’t consider bonus or overtime payments when calculating universal credit
  Open from Tuesday 24th December 2024 to Tuesday 24th June 2025
  90 signatures

• Scrap the 2-child benefit cap
  Open from Tuesday 24th December 2024 to Tuesday 24th June 2025
  444 signatures

• Pay all unpaid carers carer's allowance, to recognise and support them
  Open from Monday 23rd December 2024 to Monday 23rd June 2025
  77 signatures

• Stop DWP repeating PIP assessments for disabled people
  Open from Monday 23rd December 2024 to Monday 23rd June 2025
  24,441 signatures

• Create system for injured veterans to apply for disability benefits

• Create system for injured veterans to apply for disability benefits
  Open from Monday 23rd December 2024 to Monday 23rd June 2025
  51 signatures

• Change Universal Credit maximum holiday allowance
  Open from Monday 23rd December 2024 to Monday 23rd June 2025
  30 signatures

• Create a scheme to create employment opportunities for homeless people
  Open from Friday 20th December 2024 to Friday 20th June 2025
  66 signatures

• Improve benefits for veterans
  Open from Friday 20th December 2024 to Friday 20th June 2025
  81 signatures

• Create a fast-track system for benefit claims for cancer patients
  Open from Friday 20th December 2024 to Friday 20th June 2025
  5,124 signatures

• Review the Access to Work Scheme
  Open from Thursday 5th December 2024 to Thursday 5th June 2025
  1,368 signatures

• Require employers to notify unsuccessful job candidates and give feedback
  Open from Friday 29th November 2024 to Thursday 29th May 2025
  152 signatures

• Automatic fast track benefits for anyone diagnosed with a terminal illness.
  Open from Friday 29th November 2024 to Thursday 29th May 2025
  2,237 signatures

• Increase the DWP Christmas bonus for benefit claimants to £20
  Open from Thursday 28th November 2024 to Wednesday 28th May 2025
  766 signatures

• Inform disabled people of high success rate for PIP appeals at tribunal
  Open from Thursday 28th November 2024 to Wednesday 28th May 2025
  938 signatures

• Ban High-Silica Engineered Stone Worktops.
  Open from Wednesday 27th November 2024 to Tuesday 27th May 2025
  235 signatures

• Give State Pension to all at 60 and increase it to equal 48hrs at Living Wage
  Open from Tuesday 26th November 2024 to Monday 26th May 2025
  27,455 signatures

• Abolish the basic State Pension, increase the new State Pension and pay to all.
  Open from Monday 25th November 2024 to Sunday 25th May 2025
  5,892 signatures

• Give BN(O) visa holders access to funded childcare hours for working parents
  Open from Monday 25th November 2024 to Sunday 25th May 2025
  24 signatures

• Introduce a compensation scheme for WASPI women
  Open from Thursday 21st November 2024 to Wednesday 21st May 2025
  161,790 signatures

• Change rules so parents with 50/50 shared care don’t pay child maintenance
  Open from Tuesday 19th November 2024 to Monday 19th May 2025
  669 signatures

• Stop Means Testing Pensioners and increase the State Pension
  Open from Monday 11th November 2024 to Sunday 11th May 2025
  14,562 signatures

• Calculate child maintenance based on net rather than gross pay
  Open from Friday 8th November 2024 to Thursday 8th May 2025
  627 signatures

• Hold a Public Inquiry into the state pension age change for 1950s women
  Open from Friday 8th November 2024 to Thursday 8th May 2025
  7,724 signatures

• Do not reduce the Right to Buy discount
  Open from Friday 8th November 2024 to Thursday 8th May 2025
  5,218 signatures

• Set rules about when a service/venue can describe itself as accessible
  Open from Friday 8th November 2024 to Thursday 8th May 2025
  444 signatures

• Stop deducting carer's allowance from income based welfare
  Open from Friday 8th November 2024 to Thursday 8th May 2025
  607 signatures

• Don't put an extra duty on vape products
  Open from Wednesday 6th November 2024 to Tuesday 6th May 2025
  1,048 signatures

• Increase Carer's Allowance to equal minimum wage
  Open from Tuesday 5th November 2024 to Monday 5th May 2025
  11,299 signatures

• Reverse changes to Winter Fuel Payment
  Open from Tuesday 5th November 2024 to Monday 5th May 2025
  62,032 signatures

• 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

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