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DWP merging two major benefits claimed by thousands – what you need to know
4 days, 10 hours ago

DWP merging two major benefits claimed by thousands – what you need to know

The Independent  

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DWP benefits payments: December 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions
4 days, 17 hours ago

DWP benefits payments: December 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions

The Independent  

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DWP benefits payments: December 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions
1 week, 3 days ago

DWP benefits payments: December 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions

The Independent  

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Los Angeles set to build facility to transform wastewater into clean drinking water
1 month, 1 week ago

Los Angeles set to build facility to transform wastewater into clean drinking water

LA Times  

Los Angeles will soon begin building a $740-million project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water in the San Fernando Valley, expanding the city’s local water supply in an effort to prepare for worsening droughts compounded by climate change. Through this project, he said, the city will start using recycled water as a “new source of sustainable, drought-proof drinking water …

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Millions will get their £10 DWP Christmas bonus soon - here's everything you need to know
1 month, 1 week ago

Millions will get their £10 DWP Christmas bonus soon - here's everything you need to know

Daily Mail  

Millions of benefits claimants are set to get a £10 annual Christmas bonus from the Department for Work and Pensions. Don't spend it all at once: The £10 Christmas bonus would buy you a couple of decent Christmas puddings, but not much more, as it has not gone up in value for decades Couples can each get a £10 Christmas …

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DWP benefits news: November 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions
1 month, 2 weeks ago

DWP benefits news: November 2024 dates for Universal Credit and pensions

The Independent  

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New DWP rules for disability benefit assessment under Rachel Reeves’ Budget plan
2 months ago

New DWP rules for disability benefit assessment under Rachel Reeves’ Budget plan

The Independent  

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Warning some pensioners may have to pay back winter fuel payments - here’s what you can do about it
2 months, 1 week ago

Warning some pensioners may have to pay back winter fuel payments - here’s what you can do about it

The Independent  

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Nearly three million over-80s to be hit by Chancellor’s winter fuel raid
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Nearly three million over-80s to be hit by Chancellor’s winter fuel raid

The Telegraph  

The data, published in response to a written question from the Lib Dems, also reveal that those in the south of England are expected to fare particularly badly, with the region accounting for nearly half of all pensioners left poorer by the cut. Some 4.5 million people previously able to claim the winter fuel allowance across the South East, South …

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DWP to be given powers to see bank account data as Labour revives Tory benefits policy
2 months, 4 weeks ago

DWP to be given powers to see bank account data as Labour revives Tory benefits policy

The Independent  

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DWP urged to boost ‘stagnant’ Christmas bonus for benefit claimants to over £100 this winter
3 months, 1 week ago

DWP urged to boost ‘stagnant’ Christmas bonus for benefit claimants to over £100 this winter

The Independent  

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Former high-ranking L.A. city attorney charged by State Bar over DWP billing scandal
3 months, 1 week ago

Former high-ranking L.A. city attorney charged by State Bar over DWP billing scandal

LA Times  

The State Bar of California filed disciplinary charges Thursday against a former high-ranking official in the Los Angeles city attorney’s office for his alleged role in a Department of Water and Power scandal. Mike Feuer, secretly directed other attorneys to orchestrate a class-action lawsuit so that claims over a botched DWP billing system could be settled on terms favorable to …

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Fund for councils to help vulnerable extended after support cliff edge warning
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Fund for councils to help vulnerable extended after support cliff edge warning

The Independent  

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DWP payments 2024: Benefits, Universal Credit, PIP and pensions September payment dates
3 months, 3 weeks ago

DWP payments 2024: Benefits, Universal Credit, PIP and pensions September payment dates

The Independent  

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Pension Credit campaign launched by DWP after Winter Fuel Payments cut
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Pension Credit campaign launched by DWP after Winter Fuel Payments cut

The Independent  

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DWP officials attended a fancy conference. Their tab was paid with mislabeled invoices
4 months ago

DWP officials attended a fancy conference. Their tab was paid with mislabeled invoices

LA Times  

Allegations about two invoices sent to the Department of Water and Power for a business conference are part of a lawsuit and a complaint filed with the State Bar. Accenture originally submitted invoices labeled “Food and Beverage” fee for McClain-Hill and Winifred Yancy, a DWP director who attended the conference at McClain-Hill’s request. At the request of a DWP staffer, …

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DWP news: Benefits, Universal Credit, PIP and pensions August payment dates
4 months ago

DWP news: Benefits, Universal Credit, PIP and pensions August payment dates

The Independent  

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Whimsical scrap sculptures could be permanently removed in Mar Vista
4 months, 1 week ago

Whimsical scrap sculptures could be permanently removed in Mar Vista

LA Times  

Artist Lori “Welderado” Powers may soon have her collection of about 29 scrap sculptures scattered in her frontyard. “Putting anything on a power pole is probably illegal, but if the DWP workers themselves were happy to put the things back up, they can’t be that much of a hazard.” A spokesperson from the DWP said power poles are required to …

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Opinion: Los Angeles' officialdom objects to utility pole sculptures. Neighbors love them.
4 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Los Angeles' officialdom objects to utility pole sculptures. Neighbors love them.

LA Times  

The great Mar Vista street art skirmish took place shortly after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning. “We need to chain our bodies to the poles,” Powers 67, had told the two dozen-plus locals who gathered in front of her home before several gleaming white DWP trucks pulled up a block away. The sculptures, he said, many of which entertain commuters …

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Billions in benefits going unpaid as PIP claimants lose out the most - DWP news
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Billions in benefits going unpaid as PIP claimants lose out the most - DWP news

The Independent  

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A nation of cheats and swindlers? Department for Work and Pensions says benefits fraud WON'T fall to pre-Covid levels due to an 'increasing propensity' for deceit in Britain... with officials pointing
5 months ago

A nation of cheats and swindlers? Department for Work and Pensions says benefits fraud WON'T fall to pre-Covid levels due to an 'increasing propensity' for deceit in Britain... with officials pointing

Daily Mail  

The Department for Work and Pensions no longer expects benefits fraud to return to pre-Covid levels due to an 'increasing propensity' for deceit across British society. The Department for Work and Pensions no longer expects benefits fraud to return to pre-Covid levels due to an 'increasing propensity' for deceit across British society Some £9.7billion of taxpayers' cash was overpaid in …

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DWP union sues city of L.A. over pension double-dipping
5 months, 1 week ago

DWP union sues city of L.A. over pension double-dipping

LA Times  

The downtown headquarters of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The union representing Los Angeles Department of Water and Power workers is suing the city for allowing employees who retired from other city departments to work at the utility while collecting a pension. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, argues that the …

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Former L.A. city official charged by California State Bar in DWP scandal
5 months, 1 week ago

Former L.A. city official charged by California State Bar in DWP scandal

LA Times  

William W. Funderburk Jr., pictured in 2013 at a Board of Water and Power Commissioners meeting. Funderburk lied about accepting the free legal work, valued at more than $30,000, during an 2020 interview with the U.S. sttorney’s office, and he also illegally solicited a political contribution, according to Bar prosecutors. Funderburk is the first former city official to be charged …

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DWP ratepayer advocate predicts fee increases, recommends delaying city’s 100% clean energy timeline
5 months, 2 weeks ago

DWP ratepayer advocate predicts fee increases, recommends delaying city’s 100% clean energy timeline

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power building on June 7, 2015. Los Angeles residents and businesses will face higher electric bills as the Department of Water and Power transitions to 100% clean energy, according to a report by the city’s Office of Public Accountability. Monthly bills could rise 7.7% annually in the coming years if the city sticks …

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