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12 November, 2021

DWP confirms introduction of sanctions process to enable sanctions for new style JSA and ESA claims

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12 November, 2021

Amendments to Scottish child disability payment eligibility criteria and claims and payment rules

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12 November, 2021

Extension of eligibility criteria for Scottish child winter heating assistance to include young people entitled to the enhanced rate of the daily living component of PIP

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11 November, 2021 Open access

Government publishes ‘final guidance’ on the Household Support Fund for councils in England

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10 November, 2021

PCS parliamentary group calls for DWP telephony services to be brought back in-house

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9 November, 2021

Government provides update on reasons for delays that have seen several thousand claimants not receiving initial payments of their state pension on time

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9 November, 2021 Open access

Number of work coaches increased by 11,095 over the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic

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9 November, 2021

Changes to the terminal illness rules for universal credit and ESA will be introduced in April 2022

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9 November, 2021

Work and Pensions Secretary says that she does not envisage need for ‘Move to universal credit’ pilot in Harrogate to resume

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9 November, 2021

Disregard of payments made under Redress for Survivors Scheme for the purposes of council tax reduction in Scotland

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9 November, 2021

Bill to introduce more ‘practicable’ means to secure support for mortgage interest loans on all properties in Northern Ireland receives first reading

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8 November, 2021

DWP ‘intends to try’ to introduce reduced 55 per cent universal credit taper rate and £500 increase in work allowances from 24 November 2021

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8 November, 2021

Reform of universal credit taper rate and work allowances announced in Autumn Budget 2021 will benefit more than 2 million families in 2022/2023

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Increasing protection in Scotland for those in debt by raising the threshold beneath which deductions may not be taken from earnings by arrestment

DWP confirms introduction of sanctions process to enable sanctions for new style JSA and ESA claims

Amendments to Scottish child disability payment eligibility criteria and claims and payment rules

Extension of eligibility criteria for Scottish child winter heating assistance to include young people entitled to the enhanced rate of the daily living component of PIP

MoJ quarterly possession statistics show a more than 200 per cent increase in landlord possessions in the first full quarter since the ban on bailiff evictions ended in England

County Court had the jurisdiction to make a declaration on the interpretation of a settlement agreement between a landlord and tenant

Use of artificial intelligence is transforming work and working lives in ways that have outpaced, or avoid, existing regimes for regulation

Government publishes ‘final guidance’ on the Household Support Fund for councils in England

Acas warns employers that the practice of fire and rehire is ‘an extreme step’ that can seriously damage working relations and has significant legal risks

PCS parliamentary group calls for DWP telephony services to be brought back in-house

Government provides update on reasons for delays that have seen several thousand claimants not receiving initial payments of their state pension on time

Number of work coaches increased by 11,095 over the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic

Changes to the terminal illness rules for universal credit and ESA will be introduced in April 2022

Work and Pensions Secretary says that she does not envisage need for ‘Move to universal credit’ pilot in Harrogate to resume

High Court rules that, in the absence of any statutory succession, claimant was still entitled to succeed to her deceased mother’s assured tenancy relying on contractual provisions

Disregard of payments made under Redress for Survivors Scheme for the purposes of council tax reduction in Scotland

Bill to introduce more ‘practicable’ means to secure support for mortgage interest loans on all properties in Northern Ireland receives first reading

DWP ‘intends to try’ to introduce reduced 55 per cent universal credit taper rate and £500 increase in work allowances from 24 November 2021

Reform of universal credit taper rate and work allowances announced in Autumn Budget 2021 will benefit more than 2 million families in 2022/2023