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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.

29 June, 2022

‘Critical’ that DWP conceives of its safeguarding procedures as a duty of care, academics tell MPs

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29 June, 2022

Minimum debt level that an individual must owe before a creditor can make them bankrupt in Scotland to rise to £5,000 under provisions in Bill passed by MSPs

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29 June, 2022

Scottish Parliament passes Bill to provide for private rented sector eviction grounds to be made discretionary

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29 June, 2022

More than 40 per cent of households who are paid the childcare element in their universal credit receive £200 or less per month

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29 June, 2022

Government launches consultation on developing a short-term holiday let registration scheme in England

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28 June, 2022

New study provides ‘salient and plausible’ evidence linking universal credit to an increase in recorded crime

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28 June, 2022

Peers raise concerns that some groups of claimants will not qualify for £650 cost of living additional payment because of government’s desire to keep entitlement rules as simple as possible

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28 June, 2022

Enabling courts and tribunals to direct audio or video transmissions to remote observers in proceedings where they are entitled to be present

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28 June, 2022

Welsh Government confirms basic income for care leavers pilot to launch on 1 July 2022

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28 June, 2022

Rough sleeping in London dropped by almost a quarter in the last year

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27 June, 2022

Government’s social care charging reforms are ‘significantly’ underfunded and could tip councils over the edge, warns LGA

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27 June, 2022

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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24 June, 2022

Money Advice Trust calls for urgent changes to England’s council tax support and collection rules after arrears increase by more than £500 million in a year

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24 June, 2022

NHS survey shows that unpaid carers ‘are at breaking point’, says Carers UK

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24 June, 2022

Chancellor confirms that spending on cost of living payments is outside the scope of the government’s overall cap on welfare expenditure

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24 June, 2022

Increase in maximum award of damages which may be made against a trade union for unlawful industrial action

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24 June, 2022

Commencement of provisions within Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 from 30 June 2022

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