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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.

25 February, 2022

Increase of limits applying to certain awards of employment tribunals and other sums payable under employment legislation

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24 February, 2022

Not-for-profit specialist advice sector facing £17.5 million funding deficit in 2022/2023

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24 February, 2022 Open access

Closure of the Covid-19-related statutory sick pay rebate scheme for employers from 17 March 2022

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24 February, 2022

Government announces extension of the student loan repayment period in England from 30 to 40 years from 2023

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24 February, 2022

Failure to uprate benefits in line with inflation could pull 400,000 more people into poverty

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24 February, 2022

Annual ‘snapshot’ count of rough sleepers in England during autumn 2021 shows 9 per cent decrease from number in previous year

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24 February, 2022 Open access

Dealing with public concerns and complaints during Covid-19 pandemic became a ‘casualty of the crisis’ for some local authorities, Ombudsman says

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24 February, 2022

Assessment of income and capital for the purposes of charging for residential care in Scotland in 2022/2023

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24 February, 2022

Since the Work and Health Programme’s launch in November 2017, less than a quarter of participants have achieved a job outcome within 24 months

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24 February, 2022

Department for Communities publishes universal credit, PIP and benefit cap statistics for period to November 2021

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23 February, 2022

Government publishes guidance to support English councils in administering the council tax energy rebate and discretionary fund

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23 February, 2022 Open access

Ending Covid-19-related extension of notice periods for tenants in Scotland on 30 March 2022

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23 February, 2022 Open access

Scottish Government confirms that self-isolation support grants will remain available while advice to self-isolate continues beyond 21 March 2022

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23 February, 2022 Open access

Government must account for what it has spent in response to pandemic and be held accountable for its ‘unacceptable level of mistakes, waste, loss and openings for fraudsters’

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22 February, 2022

DWP confirms trial of ‘new tech to match jobs to people’ as part of its Way to Work campaign

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22 February, 2022

Government confirms its intention to repeal the Vagrancy Act

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22 February, 2022

State of the nation report on homelessness in England presents stark warnings from councils of rising homelessness as Covid-19 pandemic protections are scaled back

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22 February, 2022 Open access

Covid-19 self-isolation support payments will no longer be available with effect from 24 February 2022

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22 February, 2022

Government must tackle design features in the social security system which create debt and ‘set people up to fail’

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