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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.

13 September, 2023

DWP confirms next steps in Universal Support programme as part of policy to move more long-term sick and disabled people into employment

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13 September, 2023

Ofgem announces new prepayment meter rules that extend protection from forcible installations to people aged 75 and over and households with a child aged under two

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13 September, 2023

Money Advice Trust expresses disappointment that government has shelved plan to establish single independent regulator of insolvency services

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12 September, 2023

Government rejects SSAC recommendation that new style JSA and ESA should be integrated into universal credit

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12 September, 2023

Labour Party commits to introducing legislation to strengthen workers’ rights within 100 days of entering office

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12 September, 2023

TUC’s 2023 Congress passes motion calling for immediate and permanent uplift to benefit rates, and for sanctions and conditionality to be scrapped

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12 September, 2023

DWP provides update on its plans for ‘providing more digital services with a human touch’

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12 September, 2023

One in six households in Northern Ireland is in poverty, with a further one in ten at risk of entering poverty

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11 September, 2023

TUC to report UK Government to UN workers’ watchdog over ‘unworkable and undemocratic’ anti-strike laws

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11 September, 2023

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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8 September, 2023

DWP confirms expansion of universal credit managed migration discovery phase from tax credits only claimants to claimants of other legacy benefits from September 2023

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8 September, 2023

Scottish Government confirms that it will introduce legislation to allow local authorities to apply council tax premium of up to 100 per cent on second homes

More Housing news

8 September, 2023

Lack of joined-up and collaborative planning by council’s housing and social care services prevented homeless disabled person moving from unsuitable temporary accommodation for far too long

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8 September, 2023

Amendment of Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules to reduce the number of appeals that are invalidly lodged

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8 September, 2023

Government confirms allocation of additional £50 million in Disabled Facilities Grant funding to local authorities in England

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8 September, 2023

DWP to roll out secure email process for local authorities to share care home admissions and funding information for DLA claimants

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7 September, 2023

DWP making ‘corrections’ to how it calculates earnings for couples where one is ‘gainfully self-employed’ and the other has earnings

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