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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.

19 April, 2016

Government to extend maximum tenancy period for council tenants to ten years

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19 April, 2016

Extended periods of sickness for claimants of jobseeker’s allowance

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19 April, 2016

Government agrees motion to guarantee that workers will be no worse off on the national living wage

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19 April, 2016

Government’s ‘pay to stay’ proposals suffer three defeats in the House of Lords

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19 April, 2016

Bedroom tax cannot be avoided by reliance on space and overcrowding provisions in housing legislation

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18 April, 2016

Ombudsman launches Independent Review scheme for Scottish Welfare Fund decisions

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18 April, 2016

Employment case law round up

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18 April, 2016

Gainford Care Homes Ltd v Tipple & Anor

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15 April, 2016

Benefit problems remain biggest cause of foodbank use, says Trussell Trust

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15 April, 2016

Department for Transport v Sparks & Ors

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15 April, 2016

Entitlement to pension credit when indefinite leave to remain granted under a sponsorship agreement

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15 April, 2016

TUC calls on government to urgently develop a race equality strategy

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15 April, 2016

Further changes in consequence of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014

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15 April, 2016

Foodbank use more prevalent in areas with high numbers of people who are in skilled manual work

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15 April, 2016

Competent state for paying carer’s allowance to a British worker resident in Europe

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14 April, 2016

Low Pay Commission launches consultation on living wage and minimum wage rates from 2017

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14 April, 2016

British Psychological Society expresses 'extreme concern' at 'training, behaviour and outcome goals' of some disability benefit assessors

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14 April, 2016

Use of microwave to heat ready prepared food is not sufficient / importance of applying regulations 4 and 7

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14 April, 2016

Housing Bill amended to provide for localised approach to sale of right to buy homes

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