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RSS DWPGovernment ordered to release secret ID card report
News The decision follows a complaint by Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten in 2004 after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) refused his request in a parliamentary question to publicly release its ID cards feasibility... [09 Jun 2006]
Organised crime 'will attack ID cards database'
News Clegg said, if organised criminals are capable of infiltrating the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), "it is clear they will target the identity cards database where the stakes are even higher". He said the... [17 May 2006]
Mobile working project targets benefit fraud
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is spending £4.1m in a project which could save £19m by slashing fraud and getting benefits to the needy faster. A new £3m in funding - on top of the £1.1m for phase one of the... [22 Mar 2006]
Government departments keep schtum on ID card costs
News The two government departments that are likely to be the biggest users of ID cards have completed an assessment of the costs of integrating the technology into their IT systems - but are refusing to release the figures on grounds of... [17 Feb 2006]
Public sector to shop in online marketplace
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the first organisations to subscribe to the Zanzibar Service, which will run through England, Northern Ireland and Wales. The government today unveiled an online... [15 Feb 2006]
Jobcentre IT failing 40 per cent of claims
News Margaret Hodge, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) minister responsible for Jobcentre Plus, maintained that although staff are often forced to process claims manually, the quality of the service has not been... [30 Jan 2006]
Tax credit ID theft to be probed by Info Commissioner
News The UK's data protection watchdog has launched an investigation into the tax credit fraud fiasco that resulted from the theft of the identities and personal details of almost 13,000 staff at the Department for Work and Pensions... [24 Jan 2006]
Leader: Should government be allowed to offshore?
Leader This debate resurfaced today as a leaked document revealed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may consider offshoring IT work. When news of the leak was put to the DWP, it responded as if it had... [23 Jan 2006]
DWP to offshore IT jobs?
News According to a leaked government document dubbed "Offshoring Process", the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is considering the use of private sector firms for jobs including IT, the Public and Commercial Services... [23 Jan 2006]
Criminals make 20,000 false tax credit claims
News The huge rise in fraud attempts forced HMRC to close the online tax credits portal at the beginning of December last year after it discovered personal details of 13,000 civil servants working at the Department for Work and Pensions... [16 Jan 2006]
Taxman admits to "virulent" mass ID fraud
News That theft of the personal details of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff has to date resulted in £15m lost in fraudulent claims and led to the online tax credits service being closed down completely on 2... [16 Dec 2005]
Thousands hit by tax credit ID fraud
News The government has been accused of trying to hush up the true scale of tax credit ID fraud with details now emerging that thousands of benefits staff at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have had their details... [14 Dec 2005]
IT helps slash £4.7bn off public spending
News Some of the biggest savings made in 2005 come from the Department of Work and Pension's renegotiated IT deal with EDS, which cut the DWP's spend on the contract by £180m per year to £520m. IT has helped deliver £4.7bn of... [06 Dec 2005]
DWP agrees £870m voice and data deal with BT
News The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is to spend £870m on voice and data networks over the next five years after consolidating the various historical deals it has with its supplier BT. This deal is the result of... [06 Dec 2005]
£30m ID fraud takes down tax credit website
News HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was warned about the flaw over six months ago but only closed the tax credit portal down last week after it discovered criminals had used the identities of 1,500 civil servants at the Department of Work and... [05 Dec 2005]
