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Carer's Allowance - a service for everybody

Posted by: Christine Armstrong, Posted on: 30 October 2014 - Categories: Carer's Allowance Digital Service

Most people claiming Carer’s Allowance go online instead of asking for a form to be posted to them. That’s because we’ve made a digital service that really is simpler, clearer and faster than putting pen to paper. Over a third …

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Find Share Connect

Posted by: Andrew Dennehy-Neil, Posted on: 20 October 2014 - Categories: Business Transformation Team, DWP Digital Capability Building, DWP Digital Strategy, Social Media

We want to make better use of social media to provide a more professional and consistent experience for our claimants. Later this Autumn we’ll be testing and learning by giving access to Facebook and YouTube to staff in 3 Jobcentre …

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Improving the Carer’s Allowance guide

Posted by: dxwsupport, Posted on: 24 July 2014 - Categories: Carer's Allowance Digital Service

Back in December, Amy wrote on the GDS design notes blog about start pages within guides: Lots of users navigate to start pages for services through content on GOV.UK, which means start pages repeat information they may already have read …

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10k and counting

Posted by: Leigh Mortimer, Posted on: 26 November 2013 - Categories: Carer's Allowance Digital Service

Carer's Allowance Digital Service takes its ten thousandth claim Last week the new Carer's Allowance Digital Service took its ten-thousandth new claim. Feedback from service users continues to provide pointers...

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Live and kicking

Posted by: Leigh Mortimer, Posted on: 18 October 2013 - Categories: Carer's Allowance Digital Service

Leigh Mortimer Product Manager Carer's Allowance The public beta of the Carer’s Allowance service went live this week. The service helps people claim money for giving care to those who...

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Hands on with the new Carer's Allowance digital service

Posted by: Kathryn Baxendale, Posted on: 16 October 2013 - Categories: Carer's Allowance Digital Service

Kathryn Baxendale - Carer's Allowance Unit I have been involved in the development of the new Carer's Allowance Digital Service since September 2012 right through from Discovery into Alpha and...

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Carer's Allowance - the journey so far

Posted by: dxwsupport, Posted on: 20 May 2013 - Categories: Carer's Allowance Digital Service

Getting to this point has been both interesting and challenging. We began in May 2012 with initial investigations to find a DWP service that could be redeveloped using techniques true to the original Agile Manifesto. After lots of discussions, telephone calls …

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