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7 February, 2022

Payments under the Energy Payment Support Scheme in Northern Ireland to begin in March 2022

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7 February, 2022

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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4 February, 2022

Supreme Court’s Unison judgment ‘strayed beyond the proper boundaries of where judicial review should lie’

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4 February, 2022

Court of Appeal rules that a local authority failed to make a proper assessment of affordability of an out of borough property despite applicant failing to raise specific challenge to figures

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4 February, 2022

DWP says that it did not publish evaluation of effectiveness of universal credit sanctions because it lacked ‘robust legacy data’

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4 February, 2022

Disregarding payments from schemes compensating victims of historical institutional child abuse and from the Windrush Compensation Scheme in the assessment of housing benefit

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4 February, 2022

Miscellaneous amendments in relation to Scottish child payment and child disability payment

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4 February, 2022

Miscellaneous amendments to social care charging and financial assessment provisions in Wales

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4 February, 2022

Social Fund annual report for 2020/2021 shows that recoveries of discretionary social fund payments were down by almost £190 million on previous year

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3 February, 2022

Select Committee uses parliamentary powers to publish research into disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system that Secretary of State had repeatedly refused to make public

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3 February, 2022

Universal credit claim could not be withdrawn and, even if it could, that would not affect transition from housing benefit to universal credit

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3 February, 2022

Reference in transition regulations to universal credit basic condition of being 'in Great Britain' under section 4(1)(c) of Welfare Reform Act 2012 is freestanding and not subject to qualifications in regulations authorised by Act

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3 February, 2022

Government announces package of new measures to support households with rising energy costs, including council tax rebates for those in bands A to D

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3 February, 2022

Second Adverse Findings Notice issued against care provider who chose not to comply with Ombudsman’s recommendations following complaint about its services

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3 February, 2022 Open access

Bill providing for private rented sector eviction grounds to be made discretionary introduced to Scottish Parliament

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3 February, 2022

High Court rules that an employer could not terminate employees’ contracts and then re-engage them on terms that did not include earlier contractual assurances on pay

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3 February, 2022

More than 30 advice and support organisations call for government to increase benefits by 6 per cent in April 2022

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2 February, 2022

Government pledges to extend Decent Homes Standard to private rented sector

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2 February, 2022

Government lays draft regulations for pilot of legal aid for early advice on welfare benefits, debt and housing matters

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