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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.

7 July, 2022

National Audit Office qualifies opinion on DWP accounts for 34th year running due to the level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure

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7 July, 2022

Outgoing Prime Minister appoints new Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

More Housing news

7 July, 2022

Prime Minister resigns after resignation of further Ministers and Cabinet Members and the sacking of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

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7 July, 2022

Work and Pensions Secretary responds to news that Prime Minister has agreed to resign, saying that she ‘fully understands the very bad situation we are now in’

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7 July, 2022

Department for Communities' failure to address the number of disability benefit decisions being overturned on appeal as a result of the provision of further medical evidence is ‘deeply disappointing and most unfair to claimants’

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7 July, 2022

New Bill introduced to make provision in relation to the remuneration of seafarers who do not qualify for the national minimum wage

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7 July, 2022

Kinship Care Bill receives first reading in the House of Commons

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6 July, 2022

Work and Pensions Minister resigns from the government

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6 July, 2022

Government’s Way to Work scheme lacked an evidence-base and questions remain as to whether it was proportionate to the scale of the problem it was designed to address

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6 July, 2022

Court of Session rules that a fresh homeless application triggers local authority’s duties under the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 unless it is based on exactly the same facts as a previous application

More Housing case law

6 July, 2022

Supreme Court rules, by majority of three to two, that diplomat was not entitled to diplomatic immunity in relation to claim of modern slavery by domestic worker

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6 July, 2022

Housing Ombudsman makes two findings of severe maladministration concerning landlord’s failings in dealing with resident’s report of roof leak

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6 July, 2022

DWP delays in processing PIP applications are leaving hundreds of thousands of people waiting for £300 million of vital support

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5 July, 2022

Prime Minister appoints new Chancellor and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

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5 July, 2022

Amendments to universal credit natural migration and managed migration provisions including removal of 10,000 limit on awards under managed migration

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5 July, 2022

Money and Pensions Service outlines the next steps it will be taking to shape the future of community-based debt advice commissioning in England

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5 July, 2022

Government launches call for evidence on review of personal insolvency framework in England and Wales

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