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Daily news and case law updates across five areas of social welfare law: welfare benefits, debt, housing, employment and community care. Subscribe for updates.

20 July, 2017

Extended vulnerability criteria for immediate access to hardship payments following JSA sanctions

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20 July, 2017

Budgeting and crisis loans worth almost £½ billion were recovered in 2016/2017

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20 July, 2017

Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill gets first reading

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20 July, 2017

More than one million people are using high cost credit to cover everyday expenses, says StepChange

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20 July, 2017

Welsh Government launches consultation on banning tenant letting fees

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19 July, 2017

Government review of state pension age proposes rise to 68 between 2037 and 2039

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19 July, 2017

Director of Labour Market Enforcement launches consultation on strategy for 2018/2019

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19 July, 2017

No failure to disclose information that is already known by the DWP

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19 July, 2017

HMCTS provides update on plans for online dispute resolution for Social Security and Child Support appeals

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18 July, 2017

Public And Commercial Services Union & Ors v Minister for the Cabinet Office

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18 July, 2017

Immediate access to hardship payments for sanctioned JSA claimants who are homeless or have a mental health condition

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18 July, 2017

Inability to read instructions or use timers may be relevant when considering PIP activity 1

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18 July, 2017

Joined-up working could prevent homelessness for a ‘significant’ proportion of population, say MPs

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17 July, 2017

Claimants affected by the two child limit are being misdirected between universal credit and legacy benefits

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17 July, 2017

Requesting managed payments when social landlords verify universal credit housing costs

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17 July, 2017

Annual uprating of benefits is not 'an increase in the rate of a relevant benefit' to enable supersession from the date of increase

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17 July, 2017

Employment case law round up

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