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25 November, 2021

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry into universal credit and childcare costs

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25 November, 2021

Work and Pensions Secretary confirms that benefits and state pension will increase by 3.1 per cent from April 2022

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25 November, 2021

Treasury Secretary confirms annual uprating of tax credits, child benefit and guardian’s allowance from April 2022

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25 November, 2021

Work and Health Programme has supported around a third of participants to start earning from employment since its launch in November 2017

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25 November, 2021

More than three million families face financial hardship as cost of living crisis bites this winter

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24 November, 2021

DWP provides update on support for people who have come to UK from Afghanistan

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24 November, 2021

DWP confirms that it has no plans to introduce equivalent to disregard of Adviser Discretion Fund payments for upfront childcare costs that applies in Northern Ireland

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24 November, 2021

Reintroduction of the minimum income floor and reapplying conditionality expected to reduce fraud and error in universal credit by up to 2.5 per cent

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24 November, 2021

Consequential amendments to social security legislation following the introduction of child disability payment in Scotland

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24 November, 2021

Reduction in universal credit taper rate and increase in work allowances in Northern Ireland

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24 November, 2021

Further limitation of exception to the universal credit basic condition ‘not to be receiving education’ for those in receipt of a disability benefit in Northern Ireland

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22 November, 2021

Government’s unambitious response to Work and Pension Committee report 'fails to instil any confidence' that it is serious about breaking down barriers that people with disabilities face in the labour market

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Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry into universal credit and childcare costs

DWP says that it would be ‘premature’ to class long Covid as a disability for the purposes of employment protections

Work and Pensions Secretary confirms that benefits and state pension will increase by 3.1 per cent from April 2022

Treasury Secretary confirms annual uprating of tax credits, child benefit and guardian’s allowance from April 2022

Work and Health Programme has supported around a third of participants to start earning from employment since its launch in November 2017

More than three million families face financial hardship as cost of living crisis bites this winter

DWP provides update on support for people who have come to UK from Afghanistan

DWP confirms that it has no plans to introduce equivalent to disregard of Adviser Discretion Fund payments for upfront childcare costs that applies in Northern Ireland

Reintroduction of the minimum income floor and reapplying conditionality expected to reduce fraud and error in universal credit by up to 2.5 per cent

Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee launches consultation on council tax collection in England

High Court rules that a second floor flat accessible only through a room-sized landing in the main house was a second dwelling for council tax valuation listing purposes

Consequential amendments to social security legislation following the introduction of child disability payment in Scotland

Reduction in universal credit taper rate and increase in work allowances in Northern Ireland

Further limitation of exception to the universal credit basic condition ‘not to be receiving education’ for those in receipt of a disability benefit in Northern Ireland

Draft legislation on licensing short-term lets laid before Scottish Parliament

MPs vote in favour of amendment to social care cap which moves away from recommendations of independent Dilnot Commission and ‘disproportionately benefits those with greater assets’

Court of Appeal rules that the presumption against 'time being of the essence' was displaced in the case of a landlord that served notice on a lessee to increase interim service charges outside the deadline set by the lease

Pledge to introduce White Paper on right to adequate housing and fair rents among measures included in Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru Co-operation Agreement

Government’s unambitious response to Work and Pension Committee report 'fails to instil any confidence' that it is serious about breaking down barriers that people with disabilities face in the labour market