How can DWP ensure all those entitled to claim benefits or access DWP services are reached? What barriers to accessing support services are faced by individuals from disadvantaged groups?
Background
This encompasses priorities around:
- promoting financial resilience and reducing poverty, including by harnessing the full set of levers available through the Department and its public bodies, other government departments and Local and Combined Authorities
- supporting people to help meet the cost of living and work across government to support the formulation and delivery of effective housing policies, particularly with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)
- delivering financial security for low-income working adults, and for children in low-income households
Next steps
Send correspondence and further questions to evidence.strategyteam@dwp.gov.uk.
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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University of Essex and Colne Housing Society Limited
To map the impacts of social welfare reform, and develop a qualitative research toolkit for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of support service provision. To produce a dynamic digital map of welfare support service prov...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on mapping impacts of social welfare reform and developing a research toolkit, but does not directly address reaching all entitled to claim benefits or access DWP services.
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Welfare at a (Social) Distance: Accessing social security and employment support during the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath
The benefits system is crucial to supporting people during, and after, the COVID-19 crisis but is under extraordinary pressure from an unprecedented wave of new Universal Credit (UC) applications. The benefits system the...
Funded by: COVID
Why might this be relevant?
The project fully answers the question by providing large-scale evidence on how well the benefits system is reaching those entitled to claim benefits or access DWP services, as well as identifying barriers to accessing support services faced by individuals from disadvantaged groups. The authors have the necessary expertise to competently answer the question.
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An ADRC-NI project linking Social Security Benefits and Census data to understand the health and social needs of disability benefits claimants
Northern Ireland (NI) is one of the most disadvantaged parts of the UK, with high levels of disability and joblessness, but it is the most dependent on state benefits. In 2014 one-in-ten of the working-age population was...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project partially answers the question by linking Social Security Benefits and Census data to understand the health and social needs of disability benefits claimants. The authors have the necessary expertise to competently answer the question.