https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pension-credit-toolkit<\/a><\/p>The toolkit contains resources for anyone working with pensioners and includes guides to Pension Credit. It also contains publicity material and guidance designed to help older people understand how they could get Pension Credit and help organisations support someone applying for Pension Credit as well as ideas for encouraging take-up. The toolkit also provides links to information about disability and carers benefits.<\/p>
Most recently we have provided to relevant stakeholders a fact sheet about Pension Credit and the changes introduced on 15 May for mixed age couples to ensure that accurate information is available in the places where people are most likely to seek information.<\/p>
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The Child Maintenance Service began writing to parents with historic CSA arrears in December 2018. We anticipate that we will have written to all eligible parents by August 2020.<\/p>
The notice provides the parent with care an opportunity to make representation within 60 days if they want a last attempt made to collect their historic CSA arrears.<\/p>
<\/strong><\/p>"}
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The MOJ are making payments to a small number of Permitted Sub Contractors on the basis of a) the unique nature of their services (statutory services) and b) the structure of their current market in the context of the transformation announced on 16 May 2019.<\/p>
The Department considered the impact on stakeholders and sub-contractors, based on the Administrator\u2019s statement of affairs at the point of Working Links going into administration, and has worked with both the Administrator and Fedcap, who have taken over a number of Working Links contracts, to minimise the impact on those supply chain partners owed monies by Working Links at the point of administration.<\/p>"}
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The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.<\/p>"}
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The information requested on multiple or no assessments is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.<\/p>"}
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Assessment Providers do not decide the outcome of a claim to benefit. They provide a report to the department\u2019s decision makers who then determine entitlement to benefit. Employees of the Health Assessment Advisory Service do not have incentives or targets linked to the outcome of benefit entitlement decisions.<\/p>"}
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