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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.

28 October, 2021

Information sharing and other amendments following the introduction of child disability payment in Scotland

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28 October, 2021

Department for Communities in Northern Ireland issues amending regulations to clarify when benefit sanctions can be escalated

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28 October, 2021

More than 65,000 households were owed a statutory homelessness duty in England between April and June 2021

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27 October, 2021

Government announces that universal credit taper is to be reduced to 55 per cent and work allowances increased by £500

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27 October, 2021

Government confirms that DWP will be provided with funding of £671 million to support rollout of universal credit by March 2025

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27 October, 2021

Government confirms £3.6 billion social care funding for local government to implement the cap on personal care costs and changes to the means test

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27 October, 2021

Government outlines further £639 million funding to 2024/2025 as part of its commitment to end rough sleeping

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27 October, 2021

Baroness Stroud withdraws Lords amendment, which proposed a vote in both Houses on reinstating the £20 universal credit uplift, following advice that it was inadmissible

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27 October, 2021

Supreme Court rules that employer’s direct pay offers to workers who were members of a union, made while a collective bargaining process was ongoing, contravened section 145B of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992

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27 October, 2021

More than two million universal credit awards had a deduction for an advance or government debt in May 2021

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27 October, 2021

Payment of Christmas bonus to eligible people in Switzerland following the UK’s exit from the EU

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26 October, 2021

Government accepts Low Pay Commission recommendation for increase in national living wage to £9.50 an hour

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26 October, 2021

Social landlords should adopt ‘zero tolerance’ approach to damp and mould, says Housing Ombudsman

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25 October, 2021 Open access

Peers to debate amendment to Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill requiring vote in both Houses on whether it is ‘desirable’ to reinstate £20 universal credit uplift

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25 October, 2021

New Charter launched calling on government to tackle discrimination and ‘shift the dial’ on the disability employment gap

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25 October, 2021 Open access

Government announces £65 million support package to help low-income earners in rent arrears

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25 October, 2021

Action to ‘challenge myths and stigma around claiming benefits’ included in Social Security Scotland’s new take-up strategy

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25 October, 2021

Basic foundations of social care are looking ‘so rocky’ that urgent government action is required to keep the system viable

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25 October, 2021

Employment case law round up

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