Pension, Disability and Carers Service

The Pension, Disability and Carers Service was an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which was created in April 2008.[1]

The PDCS brought together two former separate executive agencies, The Pension Service and the Disability and Carers Service.[2] These two agencies kept their corporate branding and provided services under their separate identities. The two agencies shared roughly fifty percent of the same customers [3] and the rationalisation of services was believed to be likely to provide a better service.

Its status as an executive agency was removed on 1 October 2011 with its functions being brought back inside the DWP.[4]

  1. ^ Whitfield et al, Glossary.
  2. ^ "The Pension, Disability and Carers Service Business Plan 2009/10" (PDF). Department for Work and Pensions. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2010.
  3. ^ Whitfield et al, p. 6
  4. ^ "Government announces organisational changes to Jobcentre Plus and the Pension, Disability and Carers Service - Press releases - GOV.UK". Dwp.gov.uk. 12 September 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2015.