DWP Employment and Benefit Support

Employment and benefit support 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 over 22 million claimants and customers. We are responsible for: •understanding and dealing with the causes of poverty rather than its symptoms •encouraging people to work and making work pay •encouraging disabled people and those with ill health to work and be independent •providing a decent income for people of pension age and promoting saving for retirement •providing value for money and reducing levels of fraud and error •reducing work-related death and serious injury in workplaces through the Health and Safety Executive