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Providing evidence on survivors’ pension benefits

Posted by: Pensions Research team, Posted on: 18 February 2015 - Categories: Examples and findings
Photo of a bookshelf with a number of books in a row with spines facing up.

...evidence The Government Actuary’s Department needed information on what pension schemes are currently providing in terms of benefits to survivors of scheme members in order to calculate the costs of...

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Introducing the Family Test

Posted by: Richard Given, Posted on: 18 November 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings

...we wanted to do with the family test was bring a family perspective to policy making. We want to ensure that when policy makers are looking at how policy will...

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Being open about challenges

Posted by: Robin Van den Hende, Posted on: 12 November 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques
A sign mounted onto the wall of a stone building reads 'Caxton House', 'Department of Work and Pensions'

...the Caxton House Rule. However, one comment was that the information wasn’t sensitive enough to justify using it. That might just be a difference of opinion between civil servants and...

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Digital and policy in DWP

Posted by: Simon Boniwell, Posted on: 7 October 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Thought Pieces

...including potentially involving external stakeholders in that development process. It may even mean that instead of sending 20 page submissions to Ministers, we take a prototype of a service to...

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Creating Social Impact Bonds

Posted by: Beatrice Andrews, Posted on: 9 August 2013 - Categories: Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques

Ministers and officials at the Department for Work and Pensions were looking for new ways to tackle youth unemployment. Despite receiving a lot of attention in recent years, youth unemployment continued to present a challenge

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