News and case law

30 November, 2021

Revaluation of ‘protected payments’ and pension sharing ‘debits and credits’ in the new state pension in relation to those reaching pensionable age on or after 12 April 2022

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29 November, 2021

First Minister announces Scottish child payment will be doubled to £20 per child per week from April 2022

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29 November, 2021

Social Security (Terminal Illness) Bill introduced in Northern Ireland Assembly

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29 November, 2021

HMRC agrees contract extension with Post Office to allow people more time to switch the account into which their benefits are paid

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29 November, 2021

All PIP claimants to be given option of completing PIP2 form digitally with effect from 6 December 2021

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29 November, 2021

Court of Appeal rules that Article 7 of Regulation 883/2004 cannot be invoked to provide an independent basis to enable export of child benefit when a claimant moves to another EU Member State

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29 November, 2021

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

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26 November, 2021 Open access

Information Commissioner’s Office upholds complaint about DWP’s failure to provide information on universal credit uplift and decision not to extend it to legacy benefits

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26 November, 2021

Government publishes proposed benefit and state pension rates for 2022/2023

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26 November, 2021

DWP outlines plan to test a new ‘Get your PIP’ online claims service from January 2022

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26 November, 2021

DWP confirms that it has updated its data lists to ensure that claimants with valid immigration status are no longer receiving letters asking them to apply to EUSS

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26 November, 2021

Lords Select Committee recommends extension of universal credit full-time education rules ‘to avoid disincentivising take up of reskilling and upskilling opportunities among young people’

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Revaluation of ‘protected payments’ and pension sharing ‘debits and credits’ in the new state pension in relation to those reaching pensionable age on or after 12 April 2022

First Minister announces Scottish child payment will be doubled to £20 per child per week from April 2022

Social Security (Terminal Illness) Bill introduced in Northern Ireland Assembly

HMRC agrees contract extension with Post Office to allow people more time to switch the account into which their benefits are paid

All PIP claimants to be given option of completing PIP2 form digitally with effect from 6 December 2021

Survey of social services directors reveals ‘rapidly deteriorating’ picture of the state of the social care system in England

Welsh local authorities must take a proactive ‘rights-based’ approach to carers of disabled children, including informing them of their entitlement to an assessment of their support needs

Court of Appeal rules that Article 7 of Regulation 883/2004 cannot be invoked to provide an independent basis to enable export of child benefit when a claimant moves to another EU Member State

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

Employment case law round up

Recognition of bodies as capable of authorising their members to act as insolvency practitioners in Northern Ireland

Information Commissioner’s Office upholds complaint about DWP’s failure to provide information on universal credit uplift and decision not to extend it to legacy benefits

Government publishes proposed benefit and state pension rates for 2022/2023

DWP outlines plan to test a new ‘Get your PIP’ online claims service from January 2022

DWP confirms that it has updated its data lists to ensure that claimants with valid immigration status are no longer receiving letters asking them to apply to EUSS

Lords Select Committee recommends extension of universal credit full-time education rules ‘to avoid disincentivising take up of reskilling and upskilling opportunities among young people’

DWP has ‘limited assurance’ that Kickstart scheme is having the positive effect intended, says National Audit Office

Court of Appeal rules that Self-Employment Income Support Scheme indirectly discriminated against women who had taken leave relating to maternity or pregnancy but that the discrimination was justified

Ministry of Justice launches consultation on a new approach to the delivery of legal aid for housing possession proceedings