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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.

22 November, 2021

Employment case law round up

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19 November, 2021

DWP to offer contracts worth almost £2 billion for delivery of new ‘Functional Assessment Services’

More Welfare rights news

19 November, 2021

Civil Justice Council consultation asks whether the landlord possession pre-action protocol should be extended to apply to possession claims brought by private landlords

More Housing news

19 November, 2021

UK and Scottish Governments commit to continuing to work closely on design and implementation of welfare payments for people in Scotland

More Welfare rights news

19 November, 2021

Supersession to account for deterioration after industrial injuries disablement benefit award requires an initial ‘notional assessment’ of disablement that ignores any constitutional degenerative changes

More Welfare rights case law

18 November, 2021

Disregarding payments from Household Support Fund and equivalent devolved schemes in the assessment of tax credits

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18 November, 2021

Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill receives Royal Assent

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18 November, 2021

Universal credit sanction rate shows ‘sharp rise’ since face-to-face conditionality interventions resumed from April 2021

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18 November, 2021

Government’s plans for capping adult social care costs will make the scheme a lot less helpful to older people with modest assets than anyone had expected

More Community care news

18 November, 2021

Housing Ombudsman finds severe maladministration in housing association’s handling of complaint by vulnerable tenant about repairs to leaking shower

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18 November, 2021

Communities Minister welcomes Northern Ireland Executive agreement to introduce legislation extending terminal illness provision in social security benefits

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17 November, 2021

DWP has lost its grip on universal credit overpayments, say MPs

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17 November, 2021

Treasury Committee raises concerns about impact of potential reduction in face-to-face debt advice in England following recent tender exercise by MaPS

More Debt news

17 November, 2021

Financial Conduct Authority launches consultation on banning ‘debt packagers’ from being paid to refer customers on to other firms for debt solutions

More Debt news

17 November, 2021

Court of Appeal finds that Employment Tribunal gave adequate reasons for findings of fact in disability discrimination case

More Employment case law

17 November, 2021

Justice Committee says it is disappointed that the government’s response to its report on the future of legal aid ‘contains so little substance’

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17 November, 2021

Council took ‘too rigid an approach’ in refusing to consider travel and holiday accommodation costs for a disabled person’s carer as a disability-related expense

More Community care news