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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 June, 2023

Social Security Scotland received almost 1,800 complaints in 2022/2023

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27 June, 2023

Managed migration of universal credit to roll out in West Scotland, West Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire and South London from August 2023

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27 June, 2023

Flaws in the digital universal credit system breach principles of law and stop some claimants from accessing the right level of support

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27 June, 2023

Rough sleeping in London increased by more than 20 per cent in the last year

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27 June, 2023

Just 5 per cent of privately rented properties are affordable, representing the lowest level on record

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27 June, 2023

Amendments to council tax reduction scheme in Scotland to take account of increase in maximum amounts of childcare costs element of universal credit

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27 June, 2023

Miscellaneous minor amendments to universal credit legislation

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26 June, 2023

DWP rejects Select Committee’s recommendations for short-term improvements to the health assessment process

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26 June, 2023

Early Legal Advice Scheme pilot in Manchester and Middlesbrough helped just three people between October 2022 and March 2023

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26 June, 2023

Increase in registered rents in Northern Ireland

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23 June, 2023

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

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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

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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

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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

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23 June, 2023

Changes to universal credit childcare costs provisions from 28 June 2023

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23 June, 2023

Government issues revised Directions to Regulator of Social Housing on tenant involvement and mutual exchange

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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

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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

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22 June, 2023

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

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