DWP launches new pensions service

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UK - Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a new pensions service as part of a comprehensive shake-up. The move is part of a series of targets set out this week by Work and Pensions Secretary, Alistair Darling in a bid to bring to bring the current benefits system up to date.

From April, the existing Benefits Agency services will be scrapped in favour of ‘The Pension Service’. Darling said: Modernising the delivery of welfare services will not happen overnight. “H...

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