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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.

25 June, 2015

Local Government Ombudsman highlights 10 per cent increase in complaints about social care

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25 June, 2015

Quality of advice provided by some fee-charging debt management firms still unacceptably low

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25 June, 2015

All people with existing long-term or indefinite awards of DLA will be invited to claim PIP from 13 July 2015, announces DWP

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25 June, 2015

Number of children living in poverty in 2013/2014 unchanged from 2012/2013

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25 June, 2015

Children of parents who are in casual work as opposed to permanent work more likely to enter poverty

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25 June, 2015

Understanding why ESA claimants move straight from work to ESA without a period of sickness absence

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25 June, 2015

Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill 2015/2016 gets first reading

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25 June, 2015

Almost a third of local authorities in England and Wales overspent their DHP allocation in 2014/2015

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25 June, 2015

DWP publishes first income-related benefit take-up statistics since 2012

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24 June, 2015

Care and Support (Population Assessments) (Wales) Regulations 2015

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24 June, 2015

Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 receives Royal Assent

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24 June, 2015

Bucket is not a continence aid / continence points cannot be scored for mobility problems alone

More Welfare rights case law

24 June, 2015

Northern Ireland to introduce mandatory registration of domiciliary care workers

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24 June, 2015

£5.2bn investment in social care urgently needed, says Local Government Association

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24 June, 2015

Regulation of private rented housing in Wales

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24 June, 2015

11 per cent increase in the number of households in temporary accommodation

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24 June, 2015

St Mungo’s Broadway calls for more action on homeless health

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