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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 March, 2022

Obligation on tribunal to explain why it decided against awarding more points for a PIP activity when a higher award had been recommended in the DWP’s written submission

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7 March, 2022

Entitlement to industrial injuries disablement benefit in England and Wales for those diagnosed with Dupuytren’s contracture

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7 March, 2022

Earnings factors used for the calculation of additional state pension and guaranteed minimum pension

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4 March, 2022

Removal of specified care leavers from joint and several liability for council tax

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4 March, 2022

Benefit and child maintenance rules need to align much better to support the government’s wider objectives of addressing poverty and helping people into work

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4 March, 2022

Service users and carers in Wales report growing impatience that key aims of Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act are not being achieved for everyone

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4 March, 2022

Increasing the threshold below which personal and nursing care provided to self-funders in residential accommodation is not to be charged for in Scotland in 2022/2023

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3 March, 2022

DWP highlights successful delivery of support through telephony and digital channels during the pandemic in response to query about the impact of the removal of the face-to-face element of its Help to Claim service

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3 March, 2022

UK Government’s plan to replace the Human Rights Act with a Bill of Rights is an ‘ideologically motivated attack on freedoms and liberties’

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3 March, 2022

Housing Ombudsman publishes three-year plan focused on meeting ‘unprecedented’ increase in demand for its services

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3 March, 2022

More than 7,000 tax credits, child benefit and guardian’s allowance claimants have not yet switched away from receiving payments into Post Office card accounts ahead of next month’s deadline

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3 March, 2022

Scottish Government confirms funding allocations that continue Scottish child payment bridging payments until support is fully rolled out to older children

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3 March, 2022

Establishment of a new independent body to represent the voices and opinions of the people of Wales in respect of health and social care services

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3 March, 2022

Social care charging arrangements for local authorities in England 2022/2023

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2 March, 2022

More than 3 per cent of universal credit claims have been suspended under the DWP’s ‘Risk Review Process’

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2 March, 2022 Open access

Removal of requirement for health and care staff working in regulated care settings to have received a complete course of Covid-19 vaccinations

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2 March, 2022

Approval of new Code of Practice for purpose of excepting student accommodation from the definition of a ‘house in multiple occupation’

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2 March, 2022

Welsh Government to triple the maximum level of council tax premiums for second homes and long-term empty properties from April 2023

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2 March, 2022

Welsh Government sets out Final Budget allocations for 2022/2023 including more than £160 million of further spending to help those most affected by the cost of living crisis

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