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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.

18 May, 2016

Government confirms plan to ‘reform the UK human rights framework’

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18 May, 2016

Tribunal must explain why it prefers medical evidence over claimant evidence

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18 May, 2016

Less than 250,000 people were claiming universal credit as of 14 April 2016

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18 May, 2016

Government is ‘years behind schedule’ in achieving its employment target for disabled people

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17 May, 2016

An aid normally used by a person with no disability is only an ‘aid’ for the purposes of the PIP descriptors if sufficiently ‘connected’ to the relevant activity

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17 May, 2016

Claimant may be able to establish a need for prompting even if able to perform a specific task when there is impetus to do so

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17 May, 2016

New sanctions on illegal workers and rogue employers set out in Immigration Act 2016

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17 May, 2016

Measures to make it easier for landlords to evict illegal migrants set out in Immigration Act 2016

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17 May, 2016

Attendance allowance cannot be paid to an EU national unless the UK is the competent state under EC Regulation 883/2004

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16 May, 2016

Cavanagh & Ors v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

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16 May, 2016

Secretary of State for Justice v Windle & Arada

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16 May, 2016

Employment case law round up

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13 May, 2016

Housing and Planning Bill receives Royal Assent

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13 May, 2016

Landlord repossessions in England and Wales rose by 5 per cent in the first three months of the year

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13 May, 2016

Government responds to consultation on funding to support former ILF recipients

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13 May, 2016

DWP publishes redacted copies of peer reviews of 49 benefit-related deaths

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13 May, 2016

Local housing allowance is not keeping up with rent increases, says Chartered Institute of Housing

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12 May, 2016

Impact of benefit sanctions is ‘profoundly negative’ on claimants says academic research

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12 May, 2016

Government puts plans for ‘work and health’ white paper on hold

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