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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.

19 October, 2022

TUC survey finds that one in seven people across England, Scotland and Wales are skipping meals or going without food

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18 October, 2022

Amendments to the list of prescribed persons with whom whistleblowers can raise concerns as ‘protected disclosures’

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18 October, 2022

Chancellor refuses to confirm that benefits will be uprated by inflation or that state pension triple lock will be adhered to

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18 October, 2022

Bill to require Work and Pensions Secretary to report to Parliament on likely effects of abolition of benefit cap receives first reading

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18 October, 2022

Peers criticise DWP for failing to provide clear explanatory material for policy change that tightened up in-work conditionality requirements for universal credit claimants

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18 October, 2022

UN poverty expert warns that ‘lives will be lost’ unless governments increase benefits and wages in line with inflation

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17 October, 2022

Chancellor announces that energy bill support package will now only run through to April 2023

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17 October, 2022

Food aid networks call on Prime Minister to end need for charitable food aid by ensuring everyone has enough income from work and social security

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17 October, 2022

Adult social care services will not return to pre-pandemic performance by the next election under current government spending plans

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17 October, 2022

Local Government Association calls for government to take urgent action to improve low take up of Healthy Start scheme vouchers

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17 October, 2022

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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14 October, 2022

More than 30 charities and unions write to Work and Pensions Secretary calling for urgent action to improve the statutory sick pay system

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14 October, 2022

NAO warns that service pressures and financial constraints faced by local authority care providers and NHS England pose significant risks to success of new Integrated Care Systems

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13 October, 2022 Open access

NAO finds that, while Covid-19 employment support schemes prevented job losses, billions of pounds went to people whose incomes increased and billions more was lost in fraud and error

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13 October, 2022

MPs representing four opposition parties write to Work and Pensions Secretary calling for public inquiry into suicides and serious harm caused by benefits system

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13 October, 2022

Housing Ombudsman makes two findings of severe maladministration in relation to landlord’s failings in handling a resident’s complaint about damp and mould

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13 October, 2022

Treatment of Energy Bills Support Scheme payments in local authority assessments of the amounts individuals are required to contribute towards their care and support

More Community care news

13 October, 2022

Almost half of tax credit claims were either overpaid or underpaid during 2020/2021

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12 October, 2022

‘Independent, transparent and open’ scrutiny of the universal managed migration process is absolutely essential, says SSAC

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