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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.

23 June, 2023

Government agrees package of measures with lenders and the FCA to support mortgage holders struggling with high interest rates

More Debt news

23 June, 2023

NAO warns that scale and complexity of DWP’s Health Transformation Programme leaves it at high risk of delay, cost overruns and not achieving intended benefits

More Welfare rights news

23 June, 2023

High Court rules that council’s ‘blanket ban’ on accounting for costs of an autistic claimant’s social and life skills activities as ‘disability-related expenditure’ in care charging assessment was unlawful

More Community care case law

23 June, 2023

Using SSAC to advise on annual uprating of benefits would risk contaminating its ability to act as an impartial adviser on other aspects of government policy

More Welfare rights news

23 June, 2023

Changes to universal credit childcare costs provisions from 28 June 2023

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23 June, 2023

Disregarding compensation payments relating to the Grenfell fire, the Post Office Horizon scandal and to vaccine damage in the calculation of means-tested benefits in Northern Ireland

More Welfare rights news

22 June, 2023

Labour Party outlines five-point plan in response to warnings of the impact of rising mortgage costs on the disposable incomes of millions of households

More Debt news

22 June, 2023

New ONS data shows highest ever recorded private sector rent levels in England

More Housing news

22 June, 2023

Government announces closure of a further 36 temporary jobcentres

More Welfare rights news

22 June, 2023

Department for Communities confirms funding decisions for the delivery of social security in Northern Ireland in light of restricted 2023/2024 Budget

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22 June, 2023

Ombudsman criticises council for leaving family in temporary accommodation it acknowledged was unsuitable due to disrepair for 17 months

More Housing news

21 June, 2023

Low rates of social security are ‘pushing people into poverty and driving destitution’, say MPs

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21 June, 2023

Tribunal’s failure to find that former prisoner should be disqualified from receiving payments of contributory ESA for period of sentence amounted to error of law

More Welfare rights case law

21 June, 2023

Money Advice Trust repeats call for urgent reform of council tax support and collection rules as council tax arrears in England increase to a new high of £5.5bn

More Debt news

21 June, 2023

Three-quarters of adult social care directors in England say they ‘aren’t confident’ about being able to fully offer statutory minimum social care support in their communities

More Community care news

21 June, 2023

Senior President of Tribunals issues Practice Direction relating to panel composition in the First-tier Tribunal of the Property Chamber

More Housing news

20 June, 2023

DWP confirms vision for last phase of Universal Credit Programme, including ‘safe and secure’ migration of remaining 2.5 million households on legacy benefits and tax credits

More Welfare rights news