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17 March, 2023

Bringing rate relief provision in Northern Ireland in line with universal credit rules in preparation for managed migration

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16 March, 2023

OBR forecasts annual welfare spending will be almost £2 billion higher than it predicted just four months ago, due to upward revisions to health- and disability-related benefits and fraud

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16 March, 2023

Around £11 million has been paid out as a result of PIP review exercise following Upper Tribunal decision relating to washing or bathing safely

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16 March, 2023

Increase in benefit cap levels in Northern Ireland from April 2023

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16 March, 2023

Local authorities allocated additional funding to help improve the quality of supported housing and temporary accommodation management information

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16 March, 2023

Revaluation of earnings factors used to calculate additional state pension and guaranteed minimum pension in Northern Ireland

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15 March, 2023

Budget 2023: Chancellor announces benefit reforms to ‘remove the barriers that stop people who want to from working’

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15 March, 2023

Government outlines plans for abolition of the universal credit work capability assessment in new Health and Disability White Paper

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15 March, 2023

Extending deadline for payment of voluntary national insurance contributions to increase new state pension entitlement

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14 March, 2023

Information Commissioner’s Office orders the DWP to disclose its research on the effectiveness of benefit sanctions

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14 March, 2023

Three in ten planned reviews of PIP awards in England and Wales resulted in a decreased award or disallowance in the last five years

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14 March, 2023

DWP confirms that it fully or partially waived less than twenty universal credit overpayments in the six months to January 2023

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14 March, 2023

DWP issues guidance on regulations that extend universal credit in-work conditionality pilot to February 2024

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Extension of temporary cost of living protections for tenants in Scotland

Bringing rate relief provision in Northern Ireland in line with universal credit rules in preparation for managed migration

OBR forecasts annual welfare spending will be almost £2 billion higher than it predicted just four months ago, due to upward revisions to health- and disability-related benefits and fraud

Ofgem confirms that energy suppliers’ voluntary agreement to suspend prepayment meter installations will continue beyond 31 March 2023

Around £11 million has been paid out as a result of PIP review exercise following Upper Tribunal decision relating to washing or bathing safely

Increase in benefit cap levels in Northern Ireland from April 2023

Local authorities allocated additional funding to help improve the quality of supported housing and temporary accommodation management information

Welsh Government confirms that it will increase ‘thank you’ payments for Ukraine hosts to £500 per month from 1 April 2023

Increase of limits applying to certain awards of employment tribunals and other sums payable under employment legislation

Revaluation of earnings factors used to calculate additional state pension and guaranteed minimum pension in Northern Ireland

Budget 2023: Chancellor announces benefit reforms to ‘remove the barriers that stop people who want to from working’

Government outlines plans for abolition of the universal credit work capability assessment in new Health and Disability White Paper

Extending deadline for payment of voluntary national insurance contributions to increase new state pension entitlement

Scottish Housing Regulator confirms that social housing rents in Scotland will increase by average of 5 per cent in 2023/2024

Changes in consequence of the transfer of the functions of valuation appeals committees to the new Local Taxation Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal in Scotland

Information Commissioner’s Office orders the DWP to disclose its research on the effectiveness of benefit sanctions

Three in ten planned reviews of PIP awards in England and Wales resulted in a decreased award or disallowance in the last five years

DWP confirms that it fully or partially waived less than twenty universal credit overpayments in the six months to January 2023

DWP issues guidance on regulations that extend universal credit in-work conditionality pilot to February 2024