News and case law

3 May, 2024

Scottish Parliament calls on UK Government to urgently compensate women affected by DWP state pension age failures

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3 May, 2024

Welsh Government awarded almost 250,000 Discretionary Assistance Fund grant payments in 2023/2024

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2 May, 2024

HMRC warns claimants that it is issuing tax credit renewal notices that may show predicted payments for 2025/2026 that are ‘automatically generated and should be disregarded’

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2 May, 2024

Significant proportion of new claims are not being processed within planned timescales for DWP-administered benefits

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2 May, 2024

APPGs calls for NRPF condition to be strictly limited to five years for those on routes to settlement in the UK

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1 May, 2024

Permitting universal credit or pension credit claims where partner is self-sufficient EEA national relying on UK claimant’s legacy benefits

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1 May, 2024

Less than 65,000 people with disabilities were helped into work by Work and Health Programme in period from April 2018 to November 2023

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1 May, 2024

Monthly average shortfall between private rents and local housing allowance in Northern Ireland increases to almost £130 for households claiming universal credit housing element

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30 April, 2024

Increasing fraud trends in wider society prevent DWP from substantially reducing level of fraud and error in benefit spending

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30 April, 2024

Amendment of housing benefit regulations consequent upon removal of requirement for the self-employed to pay Class 2 national insurance contributions

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30 April, 2024

Scottish Government launches consultation on replacing Industrial Injuries Scheme with Employment Injury Assistance

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30 April, 2024

President of Appeal Tribunal in Northern Ireland expresses ‘considerable concern’ at number of decisions overturned at tribunal following receipt of further medical evidence

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29 April, 2024

Government launches Green Paper setting out plans to overhaul ‘one size fits all’ approach of the current disability benefits system

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29 April, 2024

Select Committee Chair ‘disappointed’ at DWP’s failure to notify Committee of significant change to universal credit roll-out timetable

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29 April, 2024

Court of Appeal rules that universal credit child element is not a social security family benefit for the purposes of Regulation (EC) 883/2004

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Scottish Parliament calls on UK Government to urgently compensate women affected by DWP state pension age failures

Welsh Government awarded almost 250,000 Discretionary Assistance Fund grant payments in 2023/2024

HMRC warns claimants that it is issuing tax credit renewal notices that may show predicted payments for 2025/2026 that are ‘automatically generated and should be disregarded’

Significant proportion of new claims are not being processed within planned timescales for DWP-administered benefits

APPGs calls for NRPF condition to be strictly limited to five years for those on routes to settlement in the UK

Round-up of recent decisions of the Housing Ombudsman

Permitting universal credit or pension credit claims where partner is self-sufficient EEA national relying on UK claimant’s legacy benefits

Less than 65,000 people with disabilities were helped into work by Work and Health Programme in period from April 2018 to November 2023

Round-up of recent Upper Tribunal housing case law

Monthly average shortfall between private rents and local housing allowance in Northern Ireland increases to almost £130 for households claiming universal credit housing element

Increasing fraud trends in wider society prevent DWP from substantially reducing level of fraud and error in benefit spending

Amendment of housing benefit regulations consequent upon removal of requirement for the self-employed to pay Class 2 national insurance contributions

Almost 35,000 households were threatened with homelessness and owed a prevention duty in quarter to December 2023

Scottish Government launches consultation on replacing Industrial Injuries Scheme with Employment Injury Assistance

President of Appeal Tribunal in Northern Ireland expresses ‘considerable concern’ at number of decisions overturned at tribunal following receipt of further medical evidence

Government launches Green Paper setting out plans to overhaul ‘one size fits all’ approach of the current disability benefits system

Select Committee Chair ‘disappointed’ at DWP’s failure to notify Committee of significant change to universal credit roll-out timetable

Court of Appeal rules that universal credit child element is not a social security family benefit for the purposes of Regulation (EC) 883/2004

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law