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Accuracy rates 3.5, 4.3, 4.6, 7.3
Actively seeking employment 3.8, 8.8, 9.3, 9.4
– Northern Ireland 4.10
Administration of benefits, location 1.5
Adviceline for employers 8.6
Animals, scientific procedures on 11.17
Answerphones 3.3-4
Appeals:
– Administrative cost 7.7
– Clearance times 3.5, 4.3, 7.3
– Compensation recovery 5.2
– Disablement Advisory Service 2.16
– Family credit 10.4
– Review applications 10.12-13
– Severe disability premium 1.2
Appointments, failure to attend 8.4
Archway Tower BA office 3.2
Attendance allowance:
– Clearance times 1.5, 6.5, 9.1-2, 10.1, 10.10, 10.11-12
– Correspondence with AA Unit 2.5
– Decisions 10.12
– Income support payable with 2.1
– Informationon progress of claim 10.12
– Leaflet DS668 2.1
– Number of claims 9.1, 10.12, 11.8
– Northern Ireland 6.5
– Outstanding claims 11.6, 11.8-9
– Reviews 11.8-10
– Staffing 11.9-10
Automatic credit transfer (ACT) 2.7-8
Baillie, Martin 10.5-6
Bank, payment to 2.7-8
Beef premium 7.17
Belfast social security centre 1.4
Benefit enquiry line 8.5, 9.1, 10.1
Benefit recipients in GB 6.1
Benefits Agency:
– Annual reports 2.6, 11.2
– Business plans 8.4, 11.1
– Chief executive 2.6, 11.10
– Cost of launch 1.2
– Customer charter 5.3, 11.1-2
– Establishment 1.2
– Local offices 10.1
– Publicity spending 10.3-4
– Salaries 1.2
– Staff savings 1.2
– Strategic planning 1.2, 1.5, 5.5, 7.7
– Targets 11.2
– Uniforms 3.3
Bradford 6.4
Bridging allowance 2.15, 6.9-12, 9.4-5, 11.13
– Coventry 6.7-8
– North west region 5.10
– Northern Ireland 4.11
Budgetary control 2.7, 11.15
Building Research Establishment 6.14
Building society, payment to 2.7-8
Burnley job centre 8.8
Bury BA office 6.1
Business plans 8.4, 11.1
Business reply envelopes 7.7
Caerphilly BA office 5.8
caller questionnaire 3.6
Camberwell BA office 1.5
Canning Town BA office 10.2
CAP 1.8
Carer’s premium 5.2
Central Office of Information 5.12
Central Statistical Office 5.12
Central Veterinary Laboratory 5.12
Centralisation of services 7.7
Chemical & Biological Defence Establishment 2.17, 6.14, 9.5, 10.17, 11.17
Chesham and Amersham 11.12
Child benefit 4.2, 4.3
– Extended 4.11, 9.4-5
Children dependent on supplementary benefit income support 2.3
Christmas benefit payment arrangement 6.2
Citizens Charter 5.2-3, 11.1-2
Civil Service college 5.12, 11.17
Claim forms 5.5, 5.7-8, 9.1
Claimant advisers 4.13, 4.15, 6.9, 1016-17.
Claims clearance times 1.2, 1.5, 3.5, 3.7, 4.3, 4.6, 7.3, 8.5, 9.1-2, 10.1-8
Cold weather payments 6.3-5, 7.17, 10.5, 11.1
Commission-onlyjobs 4. 13-14
Community charge, direct payment 2.2, 2.7, 2.8-10, 4.2
– Administrative costs 6.4, 7.2
Community charge benefit Leeds 7.1
Companies in receivership 2.17
Compensation for official error 5.3, 11.7, 11.10
Compensation Recovery Unit 5.2
Computerisation, effects of 1.2, 5.6
Constituency cases 1.8, 3.1, 4.1, 7.17, 8.9, 10.17, 11.17
Contributions:
– Defaulting employers 1.6, 3.7, 4.8, 8.6, 11.11
– Deficiency notices 4.7-8
– Fraud 3.8
– Inspection and enforcement 5.3-4, 11.11
– Insolvency cases 8.6
– Outstanding 11.11
– Posting queries 8.6
– Refunds 8.6, 8.9
– Self-employed 11.11
Contributions Agency:
– Annual conference 11.11
– Annual reports 2.11
– Benefit enquiries 8.6
– Caerphilly office 5.8
– Charters 7.9
– Chief executive 2.11
– Customer access points 7.9-10
– Field offices 7.9-10
– Inspector outstations 7.9-10
– Newham offices 10.2
– North Yorkshire 7.9
– Renfrewshire 7.9-10
– Work outstanding 8.6
Contributors, numbers of 5.8-9
Coventry:
– BA staff 4.5-6
– Bridging allowance 6.7-8
– Family credit 4.7, 8.5
– Hardship claims 4.4
– Housing benefit 8.5
– Income support 8.5
– Intervention stocks 8.9
– Jobclubs 4.15-16
– Restart interviews 4.15
– Service improvement 4.6
– Social fund 4.4-5
CR gas 11.17
Criminal convictions 8.8
Cunninghame North BA offices 5.8
Customer Charter 11.1-2
Customer questionnaires 3.5-6, 11.2
Customer satisfaction surveys 11.2, 11.15
Customer service managers 5.3, 11.2
Dartford BA office 1.5
Deaf persons, employment of 7.13
Dearne Valley 3.5-6
Defence Maintenance Group 8.9
DefenceResearch Agency 1.8, 6.14, 8.9, 9.5, 11.17
Delays, compensation for 5.3, 11.7, 11.10
Detachedduty workers 2.14-15
Direct payments 2.2, 2.7, 2.8-10, 4.2, 6.4, 7.2, 11.5
Disabilities, people with:
– Assessment, counselling and guidance 11.13, 11.15-16
– Chesham & Amersham 11.12
– Employment 1.7, 4.16
– Home visits 6.13
– Loan of aids to employment 2.16
– Northern Ireland 7.11
– Registration 6.13, 11.12
– Rehabilitation 1.7, 2.13, 4.12, 11.13-16
Disability appeal tribunals 11.10
Disability benefits:
– Enquiry Line 8.5, 9.1, 10.1
– Letter to MPs 11.11
– Training 7.8, 7.12-13, 10.6
– Wales 11.7
Disability benefits centre, Leeds 11.10
Disability employment advisers 11.13
Disability living allowance Appeals 10.7, 11.6, 11.10
– Claim form 9.1, 10.1, 11.5
– Claims outstanding 10.3, 10.7, 10.10, 10.14, 11.7
– Clearance times 9.1-2, 10.1, 10.3, 10.6, 10.8, 10.10, 10.14, 11.7
– Compensation for delay 11.7
– Decisions 10.8-9, 11.3-4
– Delays in introduction 10.10
– Delays in payment 10.7
– Enquiries 8.5, 10.7, 10.10, 11.7
– Medical examinations 10.1, 10.8, 11.4
– Northern Ireland 10.14
– Notification to other departments 11.4-5
– Number of claims 9.1, 10.1, 10.3, 10.7-8, 11.3-4, 11.7
– Reviews 11.4, 11.8-10
– Self-assessment 9.1, 10.8, 11.4
– Staff 10.3
Disability symbol 5.10
Disability working allowance:
– Administrative cost 7.6
– Clearance times 11.6
– Decisions 11.5, 11.6
– Enquiries 8.5
– Number of claims 11.5, 11.6
– Reasons for refusal 11.5
Training of DROs 7.12-13
Disabled, See Disabilities, people with:
Disablement advisory service 2.16, 11.13
Disablementbenefit 4.2, 9.1
Disable meant resettlement officers 4.16, 7.12, 13., 11.13
DNA profiling 7.17
Doctors 11.11
Doncaster :
– BA performance targets 3.5
– Effects of computerisation 1.2
– Employment Service office 8.9
– Numbers of benefit recipients 10.11
– Severe disability premium 1.2
– Social fund 1.8, 10.10-11
– Staffing, BA offices 3.4
Driving Standards Agency 11.17
Durham 8.9
Early retirement 9.3
Elderly people :
– In Waveney 11.9
– Letter from BA to 11.5
Electricity, See Fuel:
Electro-magneticpropulsion 9.5
Employers’ contribution returns 8.6
Employment, refusal of 3.8-9, 9.4
Employment rehabilitation services 1.7, 2.13, 4.12, 11.13-16
Employment Service:
– Administrative cost 11.14
– Bonus scheme 6.6
– Budgetary control 11.15
– Chief executive visits 11.14
– Complaints 11.15
– Convicted persons, employment of 8.8
– Customer satisfaction survey 11.15
– Expenditure 1.8
– Integrated offices 4.13, 11.12
– List of services 11.12
– Regional offices 11.14
– Staff facilities 6.5-6
– Staff training 11.16
– Staffing 4.12, 6.6
– Working patterns 6.6
Employment training 3.9, 9.4
Ethnic minorities 2.1, 3.11-12, 4.15-16, 5.7, 7.15-16
European Social Fund 7.16
Failure to attend appointments 8.4
Family credit:
– Appeals 10.4
– Claims refused 1.3, 1.6
– Clearance times 1.4, 10.2-3
– Coventry 4.7, 8.52
– Lambeth 10.9-10
– Leeds 7.1
– London 2.6
– Northern Ireland 5.9
– Nottingham 3.2
– Research 1.3
– Service to claimants 1.2-3
– Staffing 10.2-3
– Take-up 1.4
– Take-up campaign 1.3
– Tower Hamlets 2.17
– Wandsworth 8.3
– Warwickshire 8.5
Faversham 4.14
Finsbury Park BA office 3.2
Forensic Science Service 7.17
Fonns completion service 11.5
Fraud 2.10-11, 3.8, 5.3-4, 5.11, 7.12
Free phone service 8.5-6, 11.12
Fruit and vegetables 1.8, 5.12, 6.14
Fuel, direct payment 2.2, 2.7, 7.11
Gas, See Fuel :
Genetic engineering 10.17
Girocheques over £75 2.5
Glasgow:
– Home visits 7.2-3
– Number of claimants 8.3
– Social fund 8.3-4
– Take-up campaign 8.3
Goldthorpe BA office 3.5
Grampian & Shetland district 3.2-3
Greenock & Port Glasgow 4.2, 7.10
Hardship claims 3.6, 4.7, 9.2
– Coventry 4.4
– Northern Ireland 2.12
– Wales 4.3
– See also Severe hardship (16-17 year olds) :
Helplines 8.5-6
Heywood & Middleton 6.1
Highgate BA office 3.2
Historic Royal Palaces 6.14
Historic Scotland 6.14
Holloway prison job club 2.14
Home visits 6.13, 7.2-3, 8.4-5, 8.7-8, 9.1
Hostels, provision of 8.6
Housing benefit:
– Coventry 8.5
– Lambeth 10.9
– Transitional payment unit 8.5
– Wandsworth 8.3
– Warwickshire 8.5
Hydrographic Office 5.12, 8.9
Income support:
– Advice to 16-17 year olds 10.15
– Attendance allowance recipients 2.1
– Carer‘s premium 5.2
– Children dependent on 2.3, 2.7
– Computerisation 5.6
– Coventry 8.5
– Deductions, See Direct payments :
– Dependants 2.2-3, 2.7 1
– Direct payments 2.2, 2.7, 2.8-10, 6.4, 7.2, 7.11
– Error rate 5.6
– Hardship claims 2.12, 3.6, 4.7, 9.2
– Lambeth 10.9-10
– Leeds 7.1
– London 2.5-6
– Northern Ireland 5.9, 7.11-12, 8.7
– Private nursing care 7.3
– Scotland 2.2-3, 2.7
– Severe disability premium 10.5-6
– Wandsworth 8.3
– Warwickshire 8.5
– See also Severe hardship (16-17yearolds) :
Independent Living Fund 1.5
Industrial Services Consortium 6.3
Information leaflets 5.8, 6.3
Information Technology Services Agency:
– Annual reports 2.11
– Chief executive 2.11
– Launch 2.11
Insolvency 8.6
Interpreters 2.1, 5.7
Intervention Board 1.8, 5.12, 6.14, 7.17, 8.9
Interviews:
– Privacy of 7.11
– Restart 3.9, 4.15, 5.10, 6.8-9, 7.14-15
– Travel costs 2.16, 4.14-15, 6.8, 7.12, 11.14
– 13 week 10.16-17
Interwork programme 10.17
Invalid care allowance:
– Computerisation 5.2
– Implication for severe disability premium 1 0.5-6
Islington Welfare Rights Unit 10.5-6
Job interview guarantee 3.8, 3.10-11, 7.14, 7.17
– Work trials 3.10-11, 7.14
Job placements 3.9
– Staffing 4.12
Job referral service 3.9, 7.17, 10.15-16
Job review workshops 3.9, 10.16
Job vacancies:
– Commission-only 4.13-14
– Freephone service 11.12
– Matching claimants with 4.13, 7.16-17
– Offered through 0898 telephone numbers 4.11-12
– Tooting 1.8
Job centres 6.6-7, 7.12-13, 8.8-9
– Integration with benefit offices 4.13, 11.12
– Stourbridge 11.12
Jobclubs 1.8, 3.9, 3.11-12, 7.15-16
– Coventry 4.15-16
– Expenditure 1.8
– Holloway prison 2.14
– Leeds 1.8
– North west region 5.10
Job search seminars 2.14, 3.9, 10.15
Job seeker’s Charter 8.8, 11.14-15
Johnstone BA office 2.17, 7.6, 7.10
Kennington BA office 1.5
Kidderminster BA office 8.4
Kirkwall BA office 7.8
Lambeth 10.9-10
Leaflet FB31 10.5-6
Leeds:
– Benefit claimants 7.1
– Disability benefits centre 11.10
– Jobclubs 1.8
– Social fund 7.1, 8.2, 10.2
Leicester, Burleys Way, BA office 3.7
Lerwick BA office 7.8
LGV licence holders 5.11
Ling Trust 11.6
Liquid crystal displays 9.5
London, benefit recipients in 2.5-6
Luce Bay weapons range 8.9
Management consultancy 1.8
Maritime charts 5.12
Market Harborough caller office 5.2
Matching unemployed with vacancies 4.13, 7.16-17
Medical boards 6.3
Medicines Control Agency 5.12
Mental illness 11.13
Merseyside 6.1-2, 6.4
Meteorological Office 1.8, 3.1, 7.17
Mexborough BA office 3.5
Middleton BA office 6.1
Mobility allowance:
– Clearance time 9.1-2, 10.1
– Northern Ireland 6.5
– Reviews 11.8-10
Moray 10.5
Mortgage interest:
– Direct payment 2.2, 2.7
– Form MI12 11.5
Name badges 11.2, 11.15
National Advisory Council for the Employment of Disabled People 11.16
National customer survey 11.2
National insurance contributions, See Contributions :
National insurance number cards 10.13
Nature Conservancy Council for England 6.14
Neath BA office 4.2
Newcastle upon Tyne:
– Direct payments 2.2
– Social fund 2.2
– Whitley Road office complex 11.3
Newham:
– Refugees 2.1
– Social fund 2.17
– Staff, BA offices 10.2
Newport, Gwent 5.10-11, 9.3, 10.14-15
NHS Estates 5.12
No fixed abode 10.8
North Tees district BA office 7.4-6, 11.8
North west region 5.10
North Yorkshire 7.3, 7.9
Northern Ireland:
– Actively seeking work 4.10
– Attendance allowance 6.5
– Benefit offices, number 8.7
– Benefit recipients 4.10
– Client advisers 4.10
– Direct payments 7.11
– Disabilities, people with 7.11
– Family credit 5.9
– Fraud 7.12
– Hardship claims 2.12
– Home visits 8.7-8
– Homeless persons 5.9
– Housing Executive, co-ordination with 5.9
– Income support claimants 8.7
– Information and advice officers 4.10
– Mobility allowance 6.5
– Pensioners on income support 8.7
– Refusal of employment 4.10
– Severe hardship (16-17 year olds) 4.11
– Single parents 5.9
– Social fund 5.9
– Unemployed 7.11-12
Nottingham:
– Family credit 3.2
– Community charge, direct payment 4.2
Nursing care, private 7.3
Office opening hours 4.3-4, 5.5-6, 11.2
Ogwr Afan Nedd district 11.9
One-stop service 4.13, 11.12
Open-plan offices 4.2, 4.11
Operation Scotcheck 5.4, 5.12
Ordnance Survey 6.14
Packaging 5.12
Paisley BA office 7.6-7
Paisley North, single parents in 1.4
Passport Agency 2.17, 11.17
Payment of benefits:
– Through Post Office 10.9, 11.9
– To bank or building society 2.7-8
Peckham BA office 1.5
Pensioners over 80 7.2
Persons from abroad 2.1
Physostigmine 10.17
Placing, assessment and counselling teams (PACTS) 6.13, 11.13
Plaistow BA office 10.2
Planning, strategic 1.2, 1.5, 5.5, 7.7
Poll tax, See Community charge:
Port Talbot BA office 11.9
Porton Down 2.17, 11.17
Post Office payments 10.9, 11.9
Privacyof interviews 7.11
Publicity spending 10.3-4
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre 6.14
Radiation 1.8
Radio and television reception 6.14
Radio communications Agency 5.12, 6.14
Rawtenstall 9.3
RAYO 1.8
Refugees 2.1
Rehabilitation 1.7, 2.13, 4.12, 11.13-16
Remploy 10.17
Renfrewshire 7.9-10
Rent, direct payment 2.2, 2.7
Research on family credit 1.3
Resettlement Agency:
– Advisory steering groups 4.9
– Annual reports 2.12, 4.9, 7.10
– Business plan 7.10
– Chief executive 2.12
Resettlement units 2.11-12, 3.1, 4.8-10, 7.10-11, 10.14
Residential care, direct payment 2.7
Restart:
– Courses 3.9-10, 7.13-14
– Guarantee and Aim groups 6.8-9, 9.3-4
– Interviews 3.9, 4.15, 5.10, 6.8-9, 7.14-15
Rochdale BA office 6.1
Royal Mint 5.12
Royal Parks 6.14
Scotland:
– Clearance time targets 8.5
– Companies in receivership 2.17
– Helplines 8.5-6
– Income support claimants 2.2-3, 2.7
– Social fund 2.7
Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency 7.17
Severe disability premium 1.2
Severe hardship (16-17 year olds) 4.11, 7.5-6, 10.13, 11.3, 11.8
SHAP homes 2.17
Sheep 3.1, 7.17
Sheffield 5.67, 7.7
Sign language 7.7-8, 7.10, 7.13
Simplification of claims procedures 5.7-8
Single parents, Paisley North 1.4
Social fund:
– Awards 2.2, 7.5
– Budgets 2.7, 6.1, 7.3-4, 11.8
– Clearance times 10.5, 10.13
– Client groups 10.10-11
– Community care grants 10.13
– Computer system 10.5
– Coventry 4.4-5
– Crisis loan to young person 11.3
– Doncaster 1.8, 10.10-11
– Expenditure, Wales 1.3-4
– Food vouchers 2.5
– Glasgow, Maryhill 8.3-4
– Grampian & Shetland district 3.2-3
– Inspectors 2.5, 7.12, 10.4
– Lambeth 10.9
– Leaflet FB31 Leeds 7.1, 8.2, 10.2
– Loan repayments 2.2, 2.7, 7.2, 7.11, 11.2
– Loans, criteria 5.5
– Local offices service in 8.4
– Merseyside 6.1
– Monitoring of expenditure 1.4, 7.3-4
– Newcastle upon Tyne 2.2
– Newham 2.17
– North & SouthTees 7.4-5, 11.8
– Northern Ireland 5.9
– Priorities 7.4
– Reasons for refusal 2.2, 3.2-3, 4.4-5, 5.6-7, 7.4-5, 8.2, 10.9
– Restrictions 6.4
– Review 7.7
– Scotland 2.7
– Sheffield 5.6-7
– South Down 5.9
– Southwark 6.2-3
– Staff 10.5:
– Statistics, collection of 4.2
– Stoke on Trent 10.13
– Wakefield 7.3
– Wales 10.6-7
– York 7.2, 8.2
Social security advice line for employers 8.6
Social Security Agency (Northern Ireland):
– Chief executive 2.13
– Launch 3.7
– Offices 8.7
– Publications 2.13
– Staff and working patterns 2.12-13
Social security offices, number and organisation 10.1
South Down 5.9
SouthTees district BA office 7.4-6
South Yorkshire & Humberside BA offices 3.5-6
Southwark BA office 1.5, 6.2-3
Special investigators 2.10-11, 5.3-4
Staffing:
– Benefits agency 1.2, 4.5-6, 5.3, 10.5
– Disability benefits 10.3
– Family credit unit 10.2-3
– Fraud 5.3-4
– Newham offices 10.2
– Social fund 10.5
Stanford-le-Hope 7.13
Stationery Office 5.12, 10.17
Stoke on Trent 10.17
Stourbridge 11.12
Stratford (London) BA office 2.1, 7.1, 10.2
Students 4.12
Supplementary benefit:
– Additional requirements 7.8
– Children dependent on 2.3
– Dependant 2.2-3
– Scotland 2.2-3
– Unemployed, Northern Ireland 7.11-12
Sympathetic hearing scheme 7.8, 7.13
Take-up, family credit 1.4
Take-up campaigns:
– Disablement benefit 4.2
– Family credit 1.3
– Regulation 72 6.1-2, 8.3
Test firings 1.8
Thames South BA office 1.5
Thomaby 7.12
Tooting:
– Job vacancies 1.8
– Number of claimants 8.2-3
Tower Hamlets 2.17
Trainees’ earnings 9.4
Training:
– allowance 9.4
– Customer care 11.2
– Disablement resettlement officers 7.12-13
– District managers 1.2
– Employment 3.9, 9.4
– EmploymentService staff 11.16
– Vocational 7.16
Training & Employment Agency (Northern Ireland):
– Chief executive 2.16
– Staff and working patterns 2.16
Travel costs:
– To interview 2.16, 4.14-15, 6.8, 7.12, 11.14
– To take up work 2.16
Turner Vi11age hospital 11.6
Tyne & Wear 11.3
Unemployed people:
– Matching with job vacancies 4.13
– On income support, Northern Ireland 7.11-12
– Skills 4.12-13
– Under 18 4.11, 7.5-6, 8.9, 10.13, 10.15, 11.8
– 13-week interviews 10.16-17
Unemployment benefit:
– Actively seeking employment condition 3.8
– Detached duty workers 2.14-15
– Disqualification 1.7-8, 2.16, 3.8-9, 4.10, 5.10, 6.5, 9.4, 10.14-15
– Fraud 3.8
– Refusal of employment 3.8-9, 4.10, 9.4
– Suspension 5.11-12, 9.3
– Staff 2.14, 4.12, 4.14
– Uniforms 3.3
US Department of Defense 11.17
Valuation Office 5.12
Vehicles electronic research 11.17
Veterinary Medicines Directorate 3.1, 5.12
Vibration white finger 9.1
Wages Council minimum rates 3.7-8, 11.14
Wales:
– Disability benefits 11.7
– Fraud savings 2.10
– Hardship payments 4.3
– Jobsearch seminars 2.14
– Performance targets 4.2-3
– Social fund expenditure 1.3-4, 10.6-7
– Unemployment benefit disqualification 1.7-8, 2.16, 6.5
Wakefield district BA office 7.3
Wandsworth 8.3
War pensioners in other countries 11.1
Warwickshire 8.5
Wath-on-Dearne BA office 3.5
Waveney 11.9
Welsh language 2.3-4, 7.8-9
Wilton Park 6.14
Wind directions 1.8
Women doctors 11.11

 

Term Edition/page reference (click edition link to jump to it)
Accuracy rates 3.5, 4.3, 4.6, 7.3
Actively seeking employment 3.8, 8.8, 9.3, 9.4
– Northern Ireland 4.10
Administration of benefits, location 1.5
Adviceline for employers 8.6
Animals, scientific procedures on 11.17
Answerphones 3.3-4
Appeals:
– Administrative cost 7.7
– Clearance times 3.5, 4.3, 7.3
– Compensation recovery 5.2
– Disablement Advisory Service 2.16
– Family credit 10.4
– Review applications 10.12-13
– Severe disability premium 1.2
Appointments, failure to attend 8.4
Archway Tower BA office 3.2
Attendance allowance:
– Clearance times 1.5, 6.5, 9.1-2, 10.1, 10.10, 10.11-12
– Correspondence with AA Unit 2.5
– Decisions 10.12
– Income support payable with 2.1
– Informationon progress of claim 10.12
– Leaflet DS668 2.1
– Number of claims 9.1, 10.12, 11.8
– Northern Ireland 6.5
– Outstanding claims 11.6, 11.8-9
– Reviews 11.8-10
– Staffing 11.9-10
Automatic credit transfer (ACT) 2.7-8
Baillie, Martin 10.5-6
Bank, payment to 2.7-8
Beef premium 7.17
Belfast social security centre 1.4
Benefit enquiry line 8.5, 9.1, 10.1
Benefit recipients in GB 6.1
Benefits Agency:
– Annual reports 2.6, 11.2
– Business plans 8.4, 11.1
– Chief executive 2.6, 11.10
– Cost of launch 1.2
– Customer charter 5.3, 11.1-2
– Establishment 1.2
– Local offices 10.1
– Publicity spending 10.3-4
– Salaries 1.2
– Staff savings 1.2
– Strategic planning 1.2, 1.5, 5.5, 7.7
– Targets 11.2
– Uniforms 3.3
Bradford 6.4
Bridging allowance 2.15, 6.9-12, 9.4-5, 11.13
– Coventry 6.7-8
– North west region 5.10
– Northern Ireland 4.11
Budgetary control 2.7, 11.15
Building Research Establishment 6.14
Building society, payment to 2.7-8
Burnley job centre 8.8
Bury BA office 6.1
Business plans 8.4, 11.1
Business reply envelopes 7.7
Caerphilly BA office 5.8
caller questionnaire 3.6
Camberwell BA office 1.5
Canning Town BA office 10.2
CAP 1.8
Carer’s premium 5.2
Central Office of Information 5.12
Central Statistical Office 5.12
Central Veterinary Laboratory 5.12
Centralisation of services 7.7
Chemical & Biological Defence Establishment 2.17, 6.14, 9.5, 10.17, 11.17
Chesham and Amersham 11.12
Child benefit 4.2, 4.3
– Extended 4.11, 9.4-5
Children dependent on supplementary benefit income support 2.3
Christmas benefit payment arrangement 6.2
Citizens Charter 5.2-3, 11.1-2
Civil Service college 5.12, 11.17
Claim forms 5.5, 5.7-8, 9.1
Claimant advisers 4.13, 4.15, 6.9, 1016-17.
Claims clearance times 1.2, 1.5, 3.5, 3.7, 4.3, 4.6, 7.3, 8.5, 9.1-2, 10.1-8
Cold weather payments 6.3-5, 7.17, 10.5, 11.1
Commission-onlyjobs 4. 13-14
Community charge, direct payment 2.2, 2.7, 2.8-10, 4.2
– Administrative costs 6.4, 7.2
Community charge benefit Leeds 7.1
Companies in receivership 2.17
Compensation for official error 5.3, 11.7, 11.10
Compensation Recovery Unit 5.2
Computerisation, effects of 1.2, 5.6
Constituency cases 1.8, 3.1, 4.1, 7.17, 8.9, 10.17, 11.17
Contributions:
– Defaulting employers 1.6, 3.7, 4.8, 8.6, 11.11
– Deficiency notices 4.7-8
– Fraud 3.8
– Inspection and enforcement 5.3-4, 11.11
– Insolvency cases 8.6
– Outstanding 11.11
– Posting queries 8.6
– Refunds 8.6, 8.9
– Self-employed 11.11
Contributions Agency:
– Annual conference 11.11
– Annual reports 2.11
– Benefit enquiries 8.6
– Caerphilly office 5.8
– Charters 7.9
– Chief executive 2.11
– Customer access points 7.9-10
– Field offices 7.9-10
– Inspector outstations 7.9-10
– Newham offices 10.2
– North Yorkshire 7.9
– Renfrewshire 7.9-10
– Work outstanding 8.6
Contributors, numbers of 5.8-9
Coventry:
– BA staff 4.5-6
– Bridging allowance 6.7-8
– Family credit 4.7, 8.5
– Hardship claims 4.4
– Housing benefit 8.5
– Income support 8.5
– Intervention stocks 8.9
– Jobclubs 4.15-16
– Restart interviews 4.15
– Service improvement 4.6
– Social fund 4.4-5
CR gas 11.17
Criminal convictions 8.8
Cunninghame North BA offices 5.8
Customer Charter 11.1-2
Customer questionnaires 3.5-6, 11.2
Customer satisfaction surveys 11.2, 11.15
Customer service managers 5.3, 11.2
Dartford BA office 1.5
Deaf persons, employment of 7.13
Dearne Valley 3.5-6
Defence Maintenance Group 8.9
DefenceResearch Agency 1.8, 6.14, 8.9, 9.5, 11.17
Delays, compensation for 5.3, 11.7, 11.10
Detachedduty workers 2.14-15
Direct payments 2.2, 2.7, 2.8-10, 4.2, 6.4, 7.2, 11.5
Disabilities, people with:
– Assessment, counselling and guidance 11.13, 11.15-16
– Chesham & Amersham 11.12
– Employment 1.7, 4.16
– Home visits 6.13
– Loan of aids to employment 2.16
– Northern Ireland 7.11
– Registration 6.13, 11.12
– Rehabilitation 1.7, 2.13, 4.12, 11.13-16
Disability appeal tribunals 11.10
Disability benefits:
– Enquiry Line 8.5, 9.1, 10.1
– Letter to MPs 11.11
– Training 7.8, 7.12-13, 10.6
– Wales 11.7
Disability benefits centre, Leeds 11.10
Disability employment advisers 11.13
Disability living allowance Appeals 10.7, 11.6, 11.10
– Claim form 9.1, 10.1, 11.5
– Claims outstanding 10.3, 10.7, 10.10, 10.14, 11.7
– Clearance times 9.1-2, 10.1, 10.3, 10.6, 10.8, 10.10, 10.14, 11.7
– Compensation for delay 11.7
– Decisions 10.8-9, 11.3-4
– Delays in introduction 10.10
– Delays in payment 10.7
– Enquiries 8.5, 10.7, 10.10, 11.7
– Medical examinations 10.1, 10.8, 11.4
– Northern Ireland 10.14
– Notification to other departments 11.4-5
– Number of claims 9.1, 10.1, 10.3, 10.7-8, 11.3-4, 11.7
– Reviews 11.4, 11.8-10
– Self-assessment 9.1, 10.8, 11.4
– Staff 10.3
Disability symbol 5.10
Disability working allowance:
– Administrative cost 7.6
– Clearance times 11.6
– Decisions 11.5, 11.6
– Enquiries 8.5
– Number of claims 11.5, 11.6
– Reasons for refusal 11.5
Training of DROs 7.12-13
Disabled, See Disabilities, people with:
Disablement advisory service 2.16, 11.13
Disablementbenefit 4.2, 9.1
Disable meant resettlement officers 4.16, 7.12, 13., 11.13
DNA profiling 7.17
Doctors 11.11
Doncaster :
– BA performance targets 3.5
– Effects of computerisation 1.2
– Employment Service office 8.9
– Numbers of benefit recipients 10.11
– Severe disability premium 1.2
– Social fund 1.8, 10.10-11
– Staffing, BA offices 3.4
Driving Standards Agency 11.17
Durham 8.9
Early retirement 9.3
Elderly people :
– In Waveney 11.9
– Letter from BA to 11.5
Electricity, See Fuel:
Electro-magneticpropulsion 9.5
Employers’ contribution returns 8.6
Employment, refusal of 3.8-9, 9.4
Employment rehabilitation services 1.7, 2.13, 4.12, 11.13-16
Employment Service:
– Administrative cost 11.14
– Bonus scheme 6.6
– Budgetary control 11.15
– Chief executive visits 11.14
– Complaints 11.15
– Convicted persons, employment of 8.8
– Customer satisfaction survey 11.15
– Expenditure 1.8
– Integrated offices 4.13, 11.12
– List of services 11.12
– Regional offices 11.14
– Staff facilities 6.5-6
– Staff training 11.16
– Staffing 4.12, 6.6
– Working patterns 6.6
Employment training 3.9, 9.4
Ethnic minorities 2.1, 3.11-12, 4.15-16, 5.7, 7.15-16
European Social Fund 7.16
Failure to attend appointments 8.4
Family credit:
– Appeals 10.4
– Claims refused 1.3, 1.6
– Clearance times 1.4, 10.2-3
– Coventry 4.7, 8.52
– Lambeth 10.9-10
– Leeds 7.1
– London 2.6
– Northern Ireland 5.9
– Nottingham 3.2
– Research 1.3
– Service to claimants 1.2-3
– Staffing 10.2-3
– Take-up 1.4
– Take-up campaign 1.3
– Tower Hamlets 2.17
– Wandsworth 8.3
– Warwickshire 8.5
Faversham 4.14
Finsbury Park BA office 3.2
Forensic Science Service 7.17
Fonns completion service 11.5
Fraud 2.10-11, 3.8, 5.3-4, 5.11, 7.12
Free phone service 8.5-6, 11.12
Fruit and vegetables 1.8, 5.12, 6.14
Fuel, direct payment 2.2, 2.7, 7.11
Gas, See Fuel :
Genetic engineering 10.17
Girocheques over £75 2.5
Glasgow:
– Home visits 7.2-3
– Number of claimants 8.3
– Social fund 8.3-4
– Take-up campaign 8.3
Goldthorpe BA office 3.5
Grampian & Shetland district 3.2-3
Greenock & Port Glasgow 4.2, 7.10
Hardship claims 3.6, 4.7, 9.2
– Coventry 4.4
– Northern Ireland 2.12
– Wales 4.3
– See also Severe hardship (16-17 year olds) :
Helplines 8.5-6
Heywood & Middleton 6.1
Highgate BA office 3.2
Historic Royal Palaces 6.14
Historic Scotland 6.14
Holloway prison job club 2.14
Home visits 6.13, 7.2-3, 8.4-5, 8.7-8, 9.1
Hostels, provision of 8.6
Housing benefit:
– Coventry 8.5
– Lambeth 10.9
– Transitional payment unit 8.5
– Wandsworth 8.3
– Warwickshire 8.5
Hydrographic Office 5.12, 8.9
Income support:
– Advice to 16-17 year olds 10.15
– Attendance allowance recipients 2.1
– Carer‘s premium 5.2
– Children dependent on 2.3, 2.7
– Computerisation 5.6
– Coventry 8.5
– Deductions, See Direct payments :
– Dependants 2.2-3, 2.7 1
– Direct payments 2.2, 2.7, 2.8-10, 6.4, 7.2, 7.11
– Error rate 5.6
– Hardship claims 2.12, 3.6, 4.7, 9.2
– Lambeth 10.9-10
– Leeds 7.1
– London 2.5-6
– Northern Ireland 5.9, 7.11-12, 8.7
– Private nursing care 7.3
– Scotland 2.2-3, 2.7
– Severe disability premium 10.5-6
– Wandsworth 8.3
– Warwickshire 8.5
– See also Severe hardship (16-17yearolds) :
Independent Living Fund 1.5
Industrial Services Consortium 6.3
Information leaflets 5.8, 6.3
Information Technology Services Agency:
– Annual reports 2.11
– Chief executive 2.11
– Launch 2.11
Insolvency 8.6
Interpreters 2.1, 5.7
Intervention Board 1.8, 5.12, 6.14, 7.17, 8.9
Interviews:
– Privacy of 7.11
– Restart 3.9, 4.15, 5.10, 6.8-9, 7.14-15
– Travel costs 2.16, 4.14-15, 6.8, 7.12, 11.14
– 13 week 10.16-17
Interwork programme 10.17
Invalid care allowance:
– Computerisation 5.2
– Implication for severe disability premium 1 0.5-6
Islington Welfare Rights Unit 10.5-6
Job interview guarantee 3.8, 3.10-11, 7.14, 7.17
– Work trials 3.10-11, 7.14
Job placements 3.9
– Staffing 4.12
Job referral service 3.9, 7.17, 10.15-16
Job review workshops 3.9, 10.16
Job vacancies:
– Commission-only 4.13-14
– Freephone service 11.12
– Matching claimants with 4.13, 7.16-17
– Offered through 0898 telephone numbers 4.11-12
– Tooting 1.8
Job centres 6.6-7, 7.12-13, 8.8-9
– Integration with benefit offices 4.13, 11.12
– Stourbridge 11.12
Jobclubs 1.8, 3.9, 3.11-12, 7.15-16
– Coventry 4.15-16
– Expenditure 1.8
– Holloway prison 2.14
– Leeds 1.8
– North west region 5.10
Job search seminars 2.14, 3.9, 10.15
Job seeker’s Charter 8.8, 11.14-15
Johnstone BA office 2.17, 7.6, 7.10
Kennington BA office 1.5
Kidderminster BA office 8.4
Kirkwall BA office 7.8
Lambeth 10.9-10
Leaflet FB31 10.5-6
Leeds:
– Benefit claimants 7.1
– Disability benefits centre 11.10
– Jobclubs 1.8
– Social fund 7.1, 8.2, 10.2
Leicester, Burleys Way, BA office 3.7
Lerwick BA office 7.8
LGV licence holders 5.11
Ling Trust 11.6
Liquid crystal displays 9.5
London, benefit recipients in 2.5-6
Luce Bay weapons range 8.9
Management consultancy 1.8
Maritime charts 5.12
Market Harborough caller office 5.2
Matching unemployed with vacancies 4.13, 7.16-17
Medical boards 6.3
Medicines Control Agency 5.12
Mental illness 11.13
Merseyside 6.1-2, 6.4
Meteorological Office 1.8, 3.1, 7.17
Mexborough BA office 3.5
Middleton BA office 6.1
Mobility allowance:
– Clearance time 9.1-2, 10.1
– Northern Ireland 6.5
– Reviews 11.8-10
Moray 10.5
Mortgage interest:
– Direct payment 2.2, 2.7
– Form MI12 11.5
Name badges 11.2, 11.15
National Advisory Council for the Employment of Disabled People 11.16
National customer survey 11.2
National insurance contributions, See Contributions :
National insurance number cards 10.13
Nature Conservancy Council for England 6.14
Neath BA office 4.2
Newcastle upon Tyne:
– Direct payments 2.2
– Social fund 2.2
– Whitley Road office complex 11.3
Newham:
– Refugees 2.1
– Social fund 2.17
– Staff, BA offices 10.2
Newport, Gwent 5.10-11, 9.3, 10.14-15
NHS Estates 5.12
No fixed abode 10.8
North Tees district BA office 7.4-6, 11.8
North west region 5.10
North Yorkshire 7.3, 7.9
Northern Ireland:
– Actively seeking work 4.10
– Attendance allowance 6.5
– Benefit offices, number 8.7
– Benefit recipients 4.10
– Client advisers 4.10
– Direct payments 7.11
– Disabilities, people with 7.11
– Family credit 5.9
– Fraud 7.12
– Hardship claims 2.12
– Home visits 8.7-8
– Homeless persons 5.9
– Housing Executive, co-ordination with 5.9
– Income support claimants 8.7
– Information and advice officers 4.10
– Mobility allowance 6.5
– Pensioners on income support 8.7
– Refusal of employment 4.10
– Severe hardship (16-17 year olds) 4.11
– Single parents 5.9
– Social fund 5.9
– Unemployed 7.11-12
Nottingham:
– Family credit 3.2
– Community charge, direct payment 4.2
Nursing care, private 7.3
Office opening hours 4.3-4, 5.5-6, 11.2
Ogwr Afan Nedd district 11.9
One-stop service 4.13, 11.12
Open-plan offices 4.2, 4.11
Operation Scotcheck 5.4, 5.12
Ordnance Survey 6.14
Packaging 5.12
Paisley BA office 7.6-7
Paisley North, single parents in 1.4
Passport Agency 2.17, 11.17
Payment of benefits:
– Through Post Office 10.9, 11.9
– To bank or building society 2.7-8
Peckham BA office 1.5
Pensioners over 80 7.2
Persons from abroad 2.1
Physostigmine 10.17
Placing, assessment and counselling teams (PACTS) 6.13, 11.13
Plaistow BA office 10.2
Planning, strategic 1.2, 1.5, 5.5, 7.7
Poll tax, See Community charge:
Port Talbot BA office 11.9
Porton Down 2.17, 11.17
Post Office payments 10.9, 11.9
Privacyof interviews 7.11
Publicity spending 10.3-4
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre 6.14
Radiation 1.8
Radio and television reception 6.14
Radio communications Agency 5.12, 6.14
Rawtenstall 9.3
RAYO 1.8
Refugees 2.1
Rehabilitation 1.7, 2.13, 4.12, 11.13-16
Remploy 10.17
Renfrewshire 7.9-10
Rent, direct payment 2.2, 2.7
Research on family credit 1.3
Resettlement Agency:
– Advisory steering groups 4.9
– Annual reports 2.12, 4.9, 7.10
– Business plan 7.10
– Chief executive 2.12
Resettlement units 2.11-12, 3.1, 4.8-10, 7.10-11, 10.14
Residential care, direct payment 2.7
Restart:
– Courses 3.9-10, 7.13-14
– Guarantee and Aim groups 6.8-9, 9.3-4
– Interviews 3.9, 4.15, 5.10, 6.8-9, 7.14-15
Rochdale BA office 6.1
Royal Mint 5.12
Royal Parks 6.14
Scotland:
– Clearance time targets 8.5
– Companies in receivership 2.17
– Helplines 8.5-6
– Income support claimants 2.2-3, 2.7
– Social fund 2.7
Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency 7.17
Severe disability premium 1.2
Severe hardship (16-17 year olds) 4.11, 7.5-6, 10.13, 11.3, 11.8
SHAP homes 2.17
Sheep 3.1, 7.17
Sheffield 5.67, 7.7
Sign language 7.7-8, 7.10, 7.13
Simplification of claims procedures 5.7-8
Single parents, Paisley North 1.4
Social fund:
– Awards 2.2, 7.5
– Budgets 2.7, 6.1, 7.3-4, 11.8
– Clearance times 10.5, 10.13
– Client groups 10.10-11
– Community care grants 10.13
– Computer system 10.5
– Coventry 4.4-5
– Crisis loan to young person 11.3
– Doncaster 1.8, 10.10-11
– Expenditure, Wales 1.3-4
– Food vouchers 2.5
– Glasgow, Maryhill 8.3-4
– Grampian & Shetland district 3.2-3
– Inspectors 2.5, 7.12, 10.4
– Lambeth 10.9
– Leaflet FB31 Leeds 7.1, 8.2, 10.2
– Loan repayments 2.2, 2.7, 7.2, 7.11, 11.2
– Loans, criteria 5.5
– Local offices service in 8.4
– Merseyside 6.1
– Monitoring of expenditure 1.4, 7.3-4
– Newcastle upon Tyne 2.2
– Newham 2.17
– North & SouthTees 7.4-5, 11.8
– Northern Ireland 5.9
– Priorities 7.4
– Reasons for refusal 2.2, 3.2-3, 4.4-5, 5.6-7, 7.4-5, 8.2, 10.9
– Restrictions 6.4
– Review 7.7
– Scotland 2.7
– Sheffield 5.6-7
– South Down 5.9
– Southwark 6.2-3
– Staff 10.5:
– Statistics, collection of 4.2
– Stoke on Trent 10.13
– Wakefield 7.3
– Wales 10.6-7
– York 7.2, 8.2
Social security advice line for employers 8.6
Social Security Agency (Northern Ireland):
– Chief executive 2.13
– Launch 3.7
– Offices 8.7
– Publications 2.13
– Staff and working patterns 2.12-13
Social security offices, number and organisation 10.1
South Down 5.9
SouthTees district BA office 7.4-6
South Yorkshire & Humberside BA offices 3.5-6
Southwark BA office 1.5, 6.2-3
Special investigators 2.10-11, 5.3-4
Staffing:
– Benefits agency 1.2, 4.5-6, 5.3, 10.5
– Disability benefits 10.3
– Family credit unit 10.2-3
– Fraud 5.3-4
– Newham offices 10.2
– Social fund 10.5
Stanford-le-Hope 7.13
Stationery Office 5.12, 10.17
Stoke on Trent 10.17
Stourbridge 11.12
Stratford (London) BA office 2.1, 7.1, 10.2
Students 4.12
Supplementary benefit:
– Additional requirements 7.8
– Children dependent on 2.3
– Dependant 2.2-3
– Scotland 2.2-3
– Unemployed, Northern Ireland 7.11-12
Sympathetic hearing scheme 7.8, 7.13
Take-up, family credit 1.4
Take-up campaigns:
– Disablement benefit 4.2
– Family credit 1.3
– Regulation 72 6.1-2, 8.3
Test firings 1.8
Thames South BA office 1.5
Thomaby 7.12
Tooting:
– Job vacancies 1.8
– Number of claimants 8.2-3
Tower Hamlets 2.17
Trainees’ earnings 9.4
Training:
– allowance 9.4
– Customer care 11.2
– Disablement resettlement officers 7.12-13
– District managers 1.2
– Employment 3.9, 9.4
– EmploymentService staff 11.16
– Vocational 7.16
Training & Employment Agency (Northern Ireland):
– Chief executive 2.16
– Staff and working patterns 2.16
Travel costs:
– To interview 2.16, 4.14-15, 6.8, 7.12, 11.14
– To take up work 2.16
Turner Vi11age hospital 11.6
Tyne & Wear 11.3
Unemployed people:
– Matching with job vacancies 4.13
– On income support, Northern Ireland 7.11-12
– Skills 4.12-13
– Under 18 4.11, 7.5-6, 8.9, 10.13, 10.15, 11.8
– 13-week interviews 10.16-17
Unemployment benefit:
– Actively seeking employment condition 3.8
– Detached duty workers 2.14-15
– Disqualification 1.7-8, 2.16, 3.8-9, 4.10, 5.10, 6.5, 9.4, 10.14-15
– Fraud 3.8
– Refusal of employment 3.8-9, 4.10, 9.4
– Suspension 5.11-12, 9.3
– Staff 2.14, 4.12, 4.14
– Uniforms 3.3
US Department of Defense 11.17
Valuation Office 5.12
Vehicles electronic research 11.17
Veterinary Medicines Directorate 3.1, 5.12
Vibration white finger 9.1
Wages Council minimum rates 3.7-8, 11.14
Wales:
– Disability benefits 11.7
– Fraud savings 2.10
– Hardship payments 4.3
– Jobsearch seminars 2.14
– Performance targets 4.2-3
– Social fund expenditure 1.3-4, 10.6-7
– Unemployment benefit disqualification 1.7-8, 2.16, 6.5
Wakefield district BA office 7.3
Wandsworth 8.3
War pensioners in other countries 11.1
Warwickshire 8.5
Wath-on-Dearne BA office 3.5
Waveney 11.9
Welsh language 2.3-4, 7.8-9
Wilton Park 6.14
Wind directions 1.8
Women doctors 11.11