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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.

31 July, 2023

Commencement of provisions of the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 that enable the Secretary of State to issue a Code of Practice on the distribution of tips

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31 July, 2023

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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28 July, 2023

High Court makes declaration that DWP’s failure to provide blind and sight impaired people with accessible communications about their benefits was unlawful

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27 July, 2023

Court of Appeal finds that a room can constitute ‘accommodation’ for the purposes of section 191 of the Housing Act 1996

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27 July, 2023

Disregarding compensation payments relating to the Grenfell fire, the Post Office Horizon scandal and to vaccine damage in the calculation of universal credit

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27 July, 2023

Failure by housing association to address core issues and cultural failures led to a prolonged period of decline in services, finds Housing Ombudsman

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26 July, 2023

Whether tax credits eight-week temporary absence rule can be relaxed in cases where claimant unable to return to UK as a result of Covid-19-related travel restrictions

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26 July, 2023

Evaluation of Health-led Employment Trials finds no evidence of an employment or earnings effect

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26 July, 2023

More than seven million people unsuccessfully attempted to contact a financial services provider in the year to May 2022

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26 July, 2023

DWP testing new ‘Access to Work Plus’ scheme for people with high in-work support needs

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25 July, 2023

Improving Lives Through Advice programme launched with £30m funding from the National Lottery Community Fund

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25 July, 2023

Managed migration of universal credit to roll out to six further regions from September 2023

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25 July, 2023

High Court finds that local authority had adequately addressed Public Sector Equality Duty in seeking to evict tenant with disability on anti-social behaviour grounds

More Housing case law

25 July, 2023

Senior President of Tribunals issues Practice Statement in relation to powers of the First-tier Tribunal to appoint a manager under Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987

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25 July, 2023

Local authorities overspent Scottish Welfare Fund budget by 40 per cent during 2022/2023

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25 July, 2023

Number of homeless households in temporary accommodation in England reaches record high of almost 105,000

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25 July, 2023

Levelling Up Committee launches inquiry on housing for people with disabilities in England

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25 July, 2023

Legal Aid Agency confirms service providers that are to deliver Housing Loss Prevention Advice Services from August 2023

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24 July, 2023

Lack of ‘comprehensive, robust evidence’ is making it difficult for HMCTS to establish what good practice looks like in relation to changes introduced by its reform programme

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