Department for Work and Pensions

The Department for Work and Pensions is here to promote opportunity and independence for all through modern, customer-focused services.

We help people to achieve their potential through employment, so that they are able to provide for their children and to work and save for secure retirement.

We want children to have the best possible start in life, growing up in secure homes and developing skills for the future. One of our objectives is to end child poverty by 2020 and we are working with other government departments to make this happen.

We are promoting work as the best form of welfare, helping more people into work and supporting those who can't work.

We are also working to improve rights and opportunities for disabled people. Another key target for us is to help people plan for retirement and, when in retirement, to access their entitlement.

Just about everyone in Great Britain will deal with the Department or one of its eight businesses at some point in their lifetime.

All this is part of building a fair and inclusive society.

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