News and case law

18 August, 2011

Cause of overpayment / whether claimant could reasonably have been expected to realise she was being overpaid

More Welfare rights case law

17 August, 2011

Number of unemployed people rises by 38,000 over three months to June 2011

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17 August, 2011

Government issues call for evidence as part of Social Mobility and Child Poverty review

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16 August, 2011

Work Programme to be extended to ex-offenders from March 2012

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16 August, 2011

DWP to write to claimants about time limiting of contribution based ESA from Spring 2012

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15 August, 2011

Tribunal's decision to go ahead with hearing in claimant's absence / whether overpayment decision properly made

More Welfare rights case law

15 August, 2011

Relevance of claimant's ability to go on holiday / tribunal's duty to consider mental health descriptors

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15 August, 2011

Claimants with non-custodial sentences could lose benefits, according to Iain Duncan Smith

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15 August, 2011

General Medical Council investigates 12 Atos Healthcare doctors over allegations of improper conduct

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12 August, 2011

Human rights / income support for mother educating children at home / whether Upper Tribunal able to consider argument not raised before First-tier Tribunal

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11 August, 2011

Whether mental health descriptors need to stem from mental disablement / interpretation of continence descriptor

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11 August, 2011

Right to withdraw appeal / effect of hearing adjournment

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11 August, 2011

Enhanced jobseeker’s allowance provision for claimants over the age of 50

More Welfare rights news

Cause of overpayment / whether claimant could reasonably have been expected to realise she was being overpaid

Personal health budgets: the views of mental health service users and carers

Homelessness fears for almost three million renters

Number of unemployed people rises by 38,000 over three months to June 2011

Government issues call for evidence as part of Social Mobility and Child Poverty review

Work Programme to be extended to ex-offenders from March 2012

DWP to write to claimants about time limiting of contribution based ESA from Spring 2012

Housing Law Update

Tribunal's decision to go ahead with hearing in claimant's absence / whether overpayment decision properly made

Relevance of claimant's ability to go on holiday / tribunal's duty to consider mental health descriptors

Employment case law round up

Claimants with non-custodial sentences could lose benefits, according to Iain Duncan Smith

General Medical Council investigates 12 Atos Healthcare doctors over allegations of improper conduct

Human rights / income support for mother educating children at home / whether Upper Tribunal able to consider argument not raised before First-tier Tribunal

Care Quality Commission publishes results of community mental health services survey

Whether mental health descriptors need to stem from mental disablement / interpretation of continence descriptor

Right to withdraw appeal / effect of hearing adjournment

Enhanced jobseeker’s allowance provision for claimants over the age of 50

SL v Westminster City Council & Ors