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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.

4 January, 2022 Open access

Government announces £60 million new funding for local authorities in England to support adult social care sector’s response to Covid-19 in January 2022

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4 January, 2022

Additional £16 million funding to be provided to councils in Scotland to progress rapid rehousing

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4 January, 2022

Department for Communities announces £2 million funding for Emergency Fuel Payment Scheme

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4 January, 2022

Employment case law round up

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3 January, 2022

Round-up of recent Upper Tribunal housing case law

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24 December, 2021

Shelter welcomes government’s instruction to local authorities in England to get everyone off the streets this winter and into safe emergency accommodation

More Housing news

24 December, 2021

Disregarding payments from schemes compensating victims of historical institutional child abuse and from the Windrush Compensation Scheme in the assessment of means tested benefits

More Welfare rights news

23 December, 2021

Court of Appeal rules that duty to provide aftercare to service user released from hospital detention to another local authority area remains with original local authority until decision made that services no longer needed

More Community care case law

22 December, 2021 Open access

Government announces £25 million funding for local authorities in England to accommodate rough sleepers in response to Omicron variant

More Housing news

22 December, 2021

Determining entitlement to Scottish child payment and best start grants when competing claims in respect of the same child are made

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22 December, 2021

Independent review of welfare mitigation measures in Northern Ireland will consider scope of existing package and whether to extend protection to cover additional welfare cuts

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22 December, 2021

Government launches consultation on plans to strengthen the regulation of insolvency services

More Debt news

22 December, 2021

Requirement that a property must be let for a minimum of 70 days in a financial year to be classed as self-catering holiday accommodation for council tax purposes in Scotland

More Housing news

21 December, 2021 Open access

Government to reintroduce Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme as part of package of support for businesses impacted by the Omicron variant

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21 December, 2021

Government confirms option for people entitled to HMRC ‘benefits’ to receive payments in the form of a PayOut voucher following closure of the Post Office card account

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21 December, 2021

DWP estimates that up to 40,000 claimants could gain from PIP review exercise relating to Activity 9

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21 December, 2021

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

More Welfare rights news

21 December, 2021

Government announces £316 million Homelessness Prevention Grant for England in 2022/2023

More Housing news

20 December, 2021 Open access

Work coaches to be instructed to offer a telephone interview where claimants do not feel ‘comfortable or safe’ to come into the jobcentre

More Welfare rights news

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