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18 April, 2024

Lawyers warn that government’s new ‘bank spying powers’ would breach privacy rights

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18 April, 2024

Number of claimants assessed as having LCW instead of LCWRA following WCA reforms now expected to exceed 400,000

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17 April, 2024

Supreme Court rules that Trade Union and Labour Relations Act breaches human rights of employees by failing to protect against detriments short of dismissal for participation in lawful strike action

More Employment case law

17 April, 2024

High Court rules widower retained secure tenancy and right to buy despite living elsewhere

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17 April, 2024

Scottish Government announces pilot of pension age disability payment will commence in five local authority areas from October 2024

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17 April, 2024

Motion agreed calling for NI Minister for Communities to consider proposal to offset the two-child limit by introducing a better start larger families payment

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16 April, 2024

High Court permits family to remain in former matrimonial home, despite bankrupt’s attempts to ‘sabotage’ outcome of Family Court proceedings

More Debt case law

16 April, 2024

DWP confirms it will be laying regulations to further raise the administrative earnings threshold ‘in the coming weeks’

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16 April, 2024

High Court in Northern Ireland considers whether a disabled claimant’s living arrangements satisfied the tenancy condition for an award of a Disabled Facilities Grant

More Housing case law

15 April, 2024

Policy makers need to adapt universal credit ‘to tackle Britain’s new challenge of long-term sickness’, Resolution Foundation says

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15 April, 2024

ICO orders DWP to publish ‘Move to Universal Credit’ readiness and scaling assessments for managed migration

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15 April, 2024

Government’s ‘inaction’ in abolishing section 21 evictions has led to tens of thousands of households unnecessarily facing homelessness

More Housing news

15 April, 2024

Care home’s refusal to refund resident’s care costs, as recommended by Ombudsman to reflect their reduced needs for one-to-one care, to be shared with Care Quality Commission

More Community care news

15 April, 2024

Mims Davies appointed as Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work

More Welfare rights news

15 April, 2024

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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12 April, 2024

Allocation of additional funding to local authorities to support the costs of implementing welfare reform changes in 2024/2025

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11 April, 2024

New research exposes ‘devastating impact’ of funding gaps for third sector organisations that provide employment support to those furthest from the labour market

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11 April, 2024

Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales instructs magistrates to restart listing applications for warrants of entry for purpose of installing pre-payment meters

More Debt news

11 April, 2024

Growing crisis of homelessness and destitution among newly recognised refugees results from a failing system that is ‘dysfunctional by design’ and ‘discriminatory in delivery’

More Housing news

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