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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.

4 May, 2023

Parliamentary Ombudsman concedes judicial review, agreeing that report on injustice caused by DWP’s maladministration when communicating changes to women’s state pension age is ‘legally flawed’

More Welfare rights news

4 May, 2023

High Court rules that council breached main housing duty owed to a homeless disabled claimant, having housed him for more than three years in accommodation it acknowledged was unsuitable

More Housing case law

4 May, 2023

Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee draws draft regulations exempting Home Office accommodation for asylum seekers from requirement to have HMO licence to special attention of the House

More Housing news

4 May, 2023

Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill receives Royal Assent

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4 May, 2023

Secure email process now live for local authorities to share care home admissions and funding information for attendance allowance claimants with DWP

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4 May, 2023

Cancellation of up to £1,500 of a student’s living costs loan liability in Wales in the academic year 2023/2024

3 May, 2023

DWP rejects call for those with a terminal illness to be able to access state pension early

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3 May, 2023

Around a quarter of PIP and ESA First-tier Tribunal appeals were attended by a presenting officer in 2022

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3 May, 2023

Government confirms that gov.uk Verify service closed on 30 March 2023

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3 May, 2023

High Court rules that government was not obliged to issue full consultation about decision not to implement social care appeals system in forseeable future

More Community care case law

3 May, 2023

Bill providing for better enforcement of the national minimum wage receives first reading in House of Commons

More Employment news

3 May, 2023

Ombudsman highlights council’s ‘catalogue of clerical confusion’ and billing errors that led to resident being unfairly threatened with court action for not paying her council tax

More Housing news

3 May, 2023

Carers and Care Workers Bill receives first reading in House of Commons

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3 May, 2023

Mobile Homes (Pitch Fees) Bill receives Royal Assent

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3 May, 2023

Welsh Government commissions Valuation Office Agency to undertake revaluation work as part of its plans for the reform of council tax

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2 May, 2023

Almost £19 billion in income-related benefits and social tariffs is unclaimed each year

More Welfare rights news

2 May, 2023

Unions and campaign groups seek clarity on whether government plans to proceed with Bill strengthening protections against sexual harassment at work

More Employment news

2 May, 2023

Court of Appeal dismisses homeless person’s appeal against out of borough placement finding that council had complied with section 208 Housing Act 1996 duty to search for housing as close as possible to their former home

More Housing case law

2 May, 2023

Round-up of recent decisions from the Housing Ombudsman

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