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Changes to the work capability assessment which aim to improve the way it assesses the effect of cancer treatment are being introduced today, meaning many people will no longer be forced to work or look for work while dealing with the effects of the disease....

The government has pledged to form a new state-funded service which will carry out an independent assessment of employees after four weeks of sickness absence.

Jobseekers could face losing benefits for three years under revised and tougher rules introduced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today.‪

Keep It Simple Stupid: The Review of Simple Financial Products is a significant strategic development in the protection sector. Richard Walsh highlights some key issues and a few problems in the making.

Schemes to help unemployed people get work are not slave labour but clarity needs to be improved, a Judicial review has ruled.

The Department for Work and Pensions and the Local Government Association have named fifteen local authorities in England recommended as potential pilot sites for Universal Credit.

Cirencester Friendly has urged advisers to review family protection needs following DWP household income figures published today.

Advisers have been struggling to sell income protection because clients claim not to need it, Defaqto research has shown.

The Department for Work and Pensions is taking lone parents off income support earlier in their child's life and returning them to work.

Government figures for the quarter to August 2011 reveal that 54% of people who go through the Work Capability Assessment are found fit for some form of work.