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29 January, 2010

Replacing sick notes with ‘fit notes’ from Spring 2010

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29 January, 2010

Extension of paternity pay and leave from 2011

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28 January, 2010

Extension of paternity pay and leave from 2011

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28 January, 2010

Allowing local councils to set their own benefit levels according to local conditions

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27 January, 2010

Benefit rights of prisoners who are serving part of their sentences in psychiatric hospitals

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27 January, 2010

Use of alternative dispute resolution in benefit appeals slower and less cost effective than traditional methods

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27 January, 2010

Whether refusal of social fund funeral grant to prisoner breached human rights

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27 January, 2010

House of Lords approves DWP use of data-sharing to help combat fuel poverty

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27 January, 2010

Findings of fact in relation to BAMS assessment and medical treatment

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26 January, 2010

Tribunal’s assessment of evidence from nurse who had not seen claimant during relevant period

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26 January, 2010

Welfare reforms needed to remove barriers to parental employment

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26 January, 2010

War pensions disregards for housing benefit in Northern Ireland

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26 January, 2010

Carer’s allowance earnings limit to increase from April 2010

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25 January, 2010

Guarantee of a job, training or work experience for all young people out of work for six months

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22 January, 2010

Abolition of ‘Urgent Cases Payments’ and of the ‘disabled worker’ rule

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22 January, 2010

Entitlement to bereavement benefit where deceased spouse in receipt of ‘ABL’ retirement pension

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21 January, 2010

Tribunal’s reliance on written witness statements in preference to oral evidence

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21 January, 2010

Substantial proportion of ‘hard-to-help’ individuals may never be employable

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21 January, 2010

Risk of overpayments or sudden drops in income as a result of introduction of new DLA renewals polic

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