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:

DWP Areas of Research Interest 2023 GOV UK

Related UKRI funded projects

  • 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

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project partially answers the question by mapping the impacts of social welfare reform and developing a qualitative research toolkit for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of support service provision. The authors have the necessary expertise to competently answer the question.

  • 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

    Lead research organisation: University of Salford

    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.

  • 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

    Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast

    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.

  • Social Protection and Disability: Policy Lessons from Vietnam

    People with disabilities (PWDs) represent a disproportionately high proportion of the world's poor. Recognising the reciprocal relationship between disability and poverty, leading to increased vulnerability and social ex...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University College London

  • Determinants and effects of benefit take-up: Insights from panel data and microsimulation modelling

    One of the overlooked issues of delivering social benefits to their target population is imperfect take-up. The literature, while limited, shows that a significant proportion of individuals or households eligible for soc...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Essex

  • Conditionality, activation, and welfare-to-work: street-level perspectives on policy and practice

    Policies of 'activation' and 'conditionality' are at the heart of the international welfare reform agenda. In the UK these policies are central features of the ongoing transition to Universal Credit, through which they a...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially relevant as it focuses on welfare-to-work policies, but does not directly address reaching all entitled to claim benefits or barriers faced by disadvantaged groups.

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