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24 April, 2023

Social Security Scotland publishes new guidance on eligibility for Job Start Payment

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21 April, 2023

Alex Chalk appointed Justice Secretary as Dominic Raab resigns

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21 April, 2023

Court of Appeal rules that the UK was the competent state for the purposes of a DLA claim by a child whose economically active father lived in Belgium

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21 April, 2023

Requiring energy companies in Northern Ireland to obtain claimant consent for new or increased deductions from benefits for ongoing consumption of fuel

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20 April, 2023

DWP research on reduced benefit cap introduced from November 2016 finds that less than a third of affected claimants had moved off the cap 13 months after its implementation

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20 April, 2023

DWP confirms it will begin testing the matching of claimants’ primary health conditions to ‘specialist assessors’ later this year

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20 April, 2023

DWP says it will take a ‘test and learn approach’ before introducing ‘personalised’ conditionality in place of the WCA under reforms set out in Health and Disability White Paper

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20 April, 2023

PCS union announces five days of DWP staff strikes in Glasgow and Liverpool jobcentres

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20 April, 2023

Uprating of non-dependant deductions and care home residents’ personal expenses allowance in the calculation of income support, JSA, ESA and state pension credit

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19 April, 2023

DWP issues guidance on changes to benefit cap annual limits from April 2023

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19 April, 2023

Devolution of the design and delivery of employment support provision included in ‘Trailblazer’ deals with Greater Manchester and West Midlands Combined Authorities

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19 April, 2023

More than 90 charities call on political party leaders to increase universal credit standard allowances to a level sufficient to cover essential living costs

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19 April, 2023

GLA analysis finds that landlords in England are collecting £1.6 billion a year in housing benefit for ‘non-decent’ private rented homes

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19 April, 2023

Social Justice Secretary sets out steps the Scottish Government will take over the next three years to tackle poverty and inequality

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Social Security Scotland publishes new guidance on eligibility for Job Start Payment

Scottish Housing Regulator publishes new strategy and work plans for 2023/2024

Alex Chalk appointed Justice Secretary as Dominic Raab resigns

Court of Appeal rules that the UK was the competent state for the purposes of a DLA claim by a child whose economically active father lived in Belgium

Requiring energy companies in Northern Ireland to obtain claimant consent for new or increased deductions from benefits for ongoing consumption of fuel

DWP research on reduced benefit cap introduced from November 2016 finds that less than a third of affected claimants had moved off the cap 13 months after its implementation

DWP confirms it will begin testing the matching of claimants’ primary health conditions to ‘specialist assessors’ later this year

DWP says it will take a ‘test and learn approach’ before introducing ‘personalised’ conditionality in place of the WCA under reforms set out in Health and Disability White Paper

PCS union announces five days of DWP staff strikes in Glasgow and Liverpool jobcentres

Uprating of non-dependant deductions and care home residents’ personal expenses allowance in the calculation of income support, JSA, ESA and state pension credit

More than 1,300 people in the UK died while homeless in 2022

DWP issues guidance on changes to benefit cap annual limits from April 2023

Devolution of the design and delivery of employment support provision included in ‘Trailblazer’ deals with Greater Manchester and West Midlands Combined Authorities

More than 90 charities call on political party leaders to increase universal credit standard allowances to a level sufficient to cover essential living costs

GLA analysis finds that landlords in England are collecting £1.6 billion a year in housing benefit for ‘non-decent’ private rented homes

One in six children in England are being forced to live in cramped, overcrowded accommodation because of a lack of suitable and affordable homes

Social Justice Secretary sets out steps the Scottish Government will take over the next three years to tackle poverty and inequality

Government must introduce mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting ‘without delay’, says TUC

Energy suppliers sign up to tougher Ofgem oversight and new Code of Practice on involuntary prepayment installations