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Article thumbnail: Department for Work and Pensions on 24th July 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UKs biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: Department for Work and Pensions on 24th July 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UKs biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: People walk alongside a Job Centre Plus in London, Britain, October 25, 2023. REUTERS/ Susannah Ireland
Article thumbnail: People walk alongside a Job Centre Plus in London, Britain, October 25, 2023. REUTERS/ Susannah Ireland
Article thumbnail: People queue to enter a job centre in east London on July 20, 2016. Britain's unemployment rate dipped to 4.9 percent in the three months to May, the lowest level since 2005, official data showed on Wednesday. / AFP / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS (Photo credit should read DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: People queue to enter a job centre in east London on July 20, 2016. Britain's unemployment rate dipped to 4.9 percent in the three months to May, the lowest level since 2005, official data showed on Wednesday. / AFP / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS (Photo credit should read DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: File photo dated 17/02/16 of a Job Centre Plus. Universal Credit (UC) will need to change to meet the growing challenges of an older and sicker population, according to a think tank. The number of benefit claimants who are out of work because of ill health has almost doubled since UC was first introduced, to reach 2.3 million, the Resolution Foundation said. Both the benefit system and the country have changed significantly since the introduction of UC in 2013, according to the report. Issue date: Monday April 15, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story MONEY Benefits. Photo credit should read: Philip Toscano/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: File photo dated 17/02/16 of a Job Centre Plus. Universal Credit (UC) will need to change to meet the growing challenges of an older and sicker population, according to a think tank. The number of benefit claimants who are out of work because of ill health has almost doubled since UC was first introduced, to reach 2.3 million, the Resolution Foundation said. Both the benefit system and the country have changed significantly since the introduction of UC in 2013, according to the report. Issue date: Monday April 15, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story MONEY Benefits. Photo credit should read: Philip Toscano/PA Wire