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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.

28 November, 2022

Lords Committee says it is ‘deeply concerned’ about complexity and inequality of arms in legislation that requires intermediaries to pass on Energy Support Scheme benefits to end users

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28 November, 2022

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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25 November, 2022

ONS finds that a significantly higher proportion of people in the most deprived areas of England are likely to be behind with energy bills compared to those in least deprived areas

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25 November, 2022

OBR confirms that higher than expected number of new PIP claims has contributed to it upwardly revising its forecast on medium-term welfare spending

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25 November, 2022

HMRC sets out proposed rates of tax credits, child benefit and guardian’s allowance from April 2023

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25 November, 2022

DWP confirms that it is no longer accepting repeat PIP claims through its ‘Digital PIP2’ service

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24 November, 2022

Government decides not to lay regulations to implement its new Statutory Debt Repayment Plan for England and Wales this year as planned

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24 November, 2022

More than 72,000 households were initially assessed as owed a homelessness prevention or relief duty in England between April and June 2022

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24 November, 2022

Council ordered to pay almost £30,000 compensation to disabled man left in temporary accommodation he could not access or bathe in without help for eight years

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24 November, 2022

Council ordered to pay homeless man £4,000 compensation after it failed to comply with statutory housing duties

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24 November, 2022

Bill to require energy companies to allow grace period before disconnecting customers with pre-payment meters receives first reading

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23 November, 2022

Government publishes proposed benefit and state pension rates for 2023/2024

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23 November, 2022

DWP confirms that it waived just 25 universal credit overpayments in the last year

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23 November, 2022

ONS reports that there were more than 700 homeless deaths in England and Wales in 2021

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23 November, 2022

DWP advises that claims for pension credit should be made by 18 December 2022 to fall within qualifying period for second cost of living payment being made to low-income households

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23 November, 2022

All registered providers of social housing should have systems in place to ensure that their homes are free from hazardous levels of damp and mould

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22 November, 2022

Ofgem says that 17 of the biggest energy suppliers need to do more to help vulnerable customers this winter

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22 November, 2022

Nearly one in three private renters in England have had their rent increased in the last three months

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22 November, 2022

First-tier Tribunal failed to give adequate reasons for decision not to exercise discretion to extend 13-month absolute time limit for appealing

More Welfare rights case law

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