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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.

24 September, 2014

Case law (R(DLA) 2/96) which held that person cannot qualify for higher rate mobility component of DLA on grounds of severe mental impairment on basis of brain injury after the age of 30 is no longer good law

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24 September, 2014

Application of ESA regulation 35(2) following evidence about the claimant’s ‘work-related activity’ in her ‘action plan’

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23 September, 2014

Increase in number of waiting days for JSA and ESA from three to seven in Northern Ireland

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23 September, 2014

Recording of tribunal hearing (but not any accompanying paper notes) is record of proceedings

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23 September, 2014

Data matching exercise between HMRC’s Real Time Information and housing benefit departments

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23 September, 2014

Scottish Agricultural Wages Board confirms rise in minimum wage for agricultural workers

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23 September, 2014

Ofgem to review energy companies’ communications with customers in debt

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23 September, 2014

Tribunal erred in law in deciding claimant did not have limited capability for work-related activity

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22 September, 2014

Repeal of bedroom tax ‘can’t come soon enough’, says Rachel Reeves

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22 September, 2014

Shadow Chancellor sets out Labour Party’s welfare priorities

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22 September, 2014

Debt management firms must ‘raise their game’, says Financial Conduct Authority

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22 September, 2014

Creditsights Ltd v Dhunna

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22 September, 2014

Griffin v Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust

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22 September, 2014

Government launches Carers Social Action Support Fund

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22 September, 2014

Employment case law round up

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22 September, 2014

Labour would raise national minimum wage to £8 per hour by 2020

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19 September, 2014

DWP to share information with social landlords for tenants claiming universal credit

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19 September, 2014

DWP collecting evidence of which welfare reforms are affecting successful DHP claimants

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19 September, 2014

Personal budget payments for children with special educational needs disregarded for purposes of housing benefit

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