The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare and pension policy and is a key player in tackling child poverty.
It is the biggest public service delivery department in the UK and serves over 20 million customers.
Our priorities are:
• Helping people to find and stay in work
• Enabling disabled people to fulfil their potential
• Helping people save more for their retirement through workplace pensions and making the State Pension simpler and fairer
• Helping to reduce poverty and improve social justice
• Recognising the importance of family in providing the foundation of every child’s life
• Improving services to the public by providing value for money and reducing fraud and error
We are responsible for:
• 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
• Understanding and tackling the root causes of poverty rather than its symptoms
• 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
We provide our services in a number of ways, for example through Jobcentre Plus, The Pension Service, the Child Maintenance Service and partner organisations.
To find out more about DWP and the services DWP provides go to www.Gov.uk