Pension, Disability and Carers Service

{{Short description|Executive agency of the DWP}}

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The Pension, Disability and Carers Service was an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which was created in April 2008.Whitfield et al, Glossary.

The PDCS brought together two former separate executive agencies, The Pension Service and the Disability and Carers Service.{{cite web |url=http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dcs-business-plan0910.pdf |title=The Pension, Disability and Carers Service Business Plan 2009/10 |publisher=Department for Work and Pensions |page=6 |archive-url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100407162112/http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dcs-business-plan0910.pdf#page=6 |archive-date=7 April 2010}} 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 Whitfield et al, p. 6 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.dwp.gov.uk/newsroom/press-releases/2011/sep-2011/dwp106-11.shtml |title=Government announces organisational changes to Jobcentre Plus and the Pension, Disability and Carers Service - Press releases - GOV.UK |publisher=Dwp.gov.uk |date=2011-09-12 |accessdate=2015-06-22}}