The department has five principal objectives, as can be viewed on www.dwp.gov.uk/aboutus/ and reads as follows:

· To sustain a higher proportion of people in work than ever before, while providing security for those who cannot work

· To halve child poverty within a decade and eliminate it in a generation

· To combat poverty and promote security and independence in retirement for today's and tomorrow's pensioners

· To improve the rights and opportunities for disabled people in a fair and inclusive society

· To modernise welfare delivery so as to improve the accessibility, accuracy and value for money of services to our customers

In essence, these five objectives have the combined aim of improving the welfare of society as a whole.

The area that I work within is the Income Analysis Directorate part of the Income Analysis team. The IA has five teams that are involved with DWP's very own household survey, the 'Family Resources Survey'. The FRS

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