Work & Pensions secretary appointed
19 November 2018
The former secretary Amber Rudd has been appointed as the new Work & Pensions secretary. She becomes the sixth work & pensions secretary in less than three years.
Amber Rudd will take on several key pension policy areas, the pensions dashboard, defined benefit consolidation as well as implementing Universal Credit. Universal credit replaces six existing benefits – employment support allowance, income support, income-based jobseeker’s allowance, housing benefit, working tax credit and child tax credit – with a single payment.
Read more in Pension Age.