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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.

28 October, 2015

High levels of benefits and tax credits fraud and error remain unacceptable, say MPs

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28 October, 2015

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry into understanding of the new state pension

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28 October, 2015

Bill establishing automatic hardship payments for sanctioned claimants introduced to House of Commons

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28 October, 2015

Personal insolvencies in Scotland down by a quarter since 2014

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28 October, 2015

Housing (Right to Buy) (Prescribed Forms) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

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28 October, 2015

Samuels v Birmingham City Council

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28 October, 2015

Claimant who needed prompting to cook and eat qualified for PIP even though food was prepared for her

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28 October, 2015

Welfare Reform and Work Bill 2015/2016 passes its third reading in the House of Commons

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28 October, 2015

Universal Jobmatch contract to be extended for further 12 months

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27 October, 2015

House of Lords votes to delay tax credit cuts regulations until government provides transitional protection and responds to IFS impact analysis

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27 October, 2015

69 per cent of disabled people say that proposed cuts to ESA will cause their health to suffer

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27 October, 2015

'Lenders will still forbear' when the waiting period for support with mortgage interest returns to 39 weeks, according to Lord Freud

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27 October, 2015

48 per cent of applications for remission on employment tribunal issue fees are successful

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27 October, 2015

Councils use £25m Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards grant to boost assessor numbers

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27 October, 2015

Scottish government providing £163,400 to support young disabled people towards jobs

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27 October, 2015

Deciding whether a DLA claimant requires attention for a significant portion of the day or frequently throughout the day

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27 October, 2015

Dollar Financial UK - whose brands include The Money Shop - to refund £15.4m to 147,000 customers

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27 October, 2015

Central government should make funds available to care home providers to meet cost of living wage

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27 October, 2015

Almost £8m awarded through Scottish Welfare Fund in first quarter of 2015/2016

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