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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.

8 August, 2022

DWP confirms second ‘test and learn’ pilot to exchange care home admissions and funding information with local authorities by secure email rather than post

More Welfare rights news

8 August, 2022

Preparation and use of witness statements in Employment Tribunal proceedings in Scotland

More Employment news

8 August, 2022

Almost 90 per cent of local authorities in England think that some or all of the government’s adult social care reforms should be delayed

More Community care news

8 August, 2022

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

More Employment case law

5 August, 2022

Increase in the universal credit administrative earnings threshold from September 2022

More Welfare rights news

5 August, 2022

Six hundred people a day are joining growing waiting lists to be assessed for social care and support in England

More Community care news

5 August, 2022

Ombudsman finds Liverpool City Council at fault for failing to give mother of disabled teenagers adequate level of direct payments to commission support with social activities

More Community care news

4 August, 2022

Ofgem’s decision to review energy price cap quarterly rather than every six months is ‘simply inhumane’

More Debt news

4 August, 2022

Shelter responds to fears that some tenants could miss out on the government’s £400 energy rebate

More Housing news

4 August, 2022

Scottish Government launches consultation on proposed changes to the administration of devolved benefits and recovery of compensation

More Welfare rights news

4 August, 2022

Government has not come close to rescuing social care and must inject immediate funding ‘in the order of several billions each year’, say MPs

More Community care news

4 August, 2022

Government allocates £6 million in funding for four local authorities to enforce standards in supported housing sector

More Housing news

3 August, 2022

Government’s proposed Statutory Debt Repayment Plan does not provide a workable solution for those seeking help with unmanageable debt

More Debt news

3 August, 2022

Housing Ombudsman makes finding of severe maladministration in relation to landlord’s response to silverfish infestation

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2 August, 2022

DWP entitled to withhold payment of universal credit until a national insurance number has been allocated

More Welfare rights case law

2 August, 2022

First-tier Tribunal gave adequate reasons for finding that claimant’s impairment arose from constitutional condition which existed prior to industrial accident

More Welfare rights case law

1 August, 2022

High Court holds that it was ‘fair and reasonable in all the circumstances of the case’ for the Financial Ombudsman to take into account events more than six years before complaint was made

More Debt case law