Senior DWP staff to be sent to front line to prepare for rise in benefit applications amid coronavirus outbreak

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Senior DWP staff to be sent to front line to prepare for rise in benefit applications amid coronavirus outbreak
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In an email to staff, DWP permanent secretary says they ‘need to go further and faster to support increasing numbers of people who are turning to us at their time of need’

All DWP staff in England will now be categorised as “critical workers”, the message says,“alongside nurses, doctors, firefighters, police”.The many thousands of staff have been told to complete a survey by the end of Monday, to allow them to be “matched” with benefit centres and learn to process new claims.

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