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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.

25 June, 2021

DWP Minister confirms that EU citizens who miss deadline for applications to EU Settlement Scheme ‘will not see their payments stop automatically’ from 1 July 2021

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25 June, 2021

Scottish Government launches consultation on a draft licensing scheme for short-term lets

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25 June, 2021 Open access

Coronavirus (Extension and Expiry) (Scotland) Bill approved by Scottish Parliament

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25 June, 2021

Social Fund annual report for 2019/2020 shows that recoveries of discretionary social fund payments continued to exceed loan payments by more than £80 million

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25 June, 2021

Revision of ‘working age’ Council Tax Reduction Scheme in Scotland from April 2022

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24 June, 2021

CJEU Advocate General says that systematic refusal of social assistance to EU nationals granted right of residence without resource conditions constitutes indirect discrimination

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24 June, 2021

Latest child poverty progress report is a ‘stark and urgent reminder’ that far more investment is needed if Scotland is to meet its targets, warns CPAG

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24 June, 2021

Total council tax arrears across local authorities in England stood at £4.4 billion as at March 2021

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24 June, 2021

Court of Appeal rules that group of Deliveroo riders are not ‘workers’ for the purposes of establishing collective bargaining rights

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24 June, 2021

Number of enquiries and complaints received by Housing Ombudsman increased by more than 70 per cent in first three months of 2021 compared to same period in 2020

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24 June, 2021

Court of Appeal rules that service of an energy performance certificate is not required for a section 21 notice on a tenancy granted before 1 October 2015 to be valid

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24 June, 2021

Investigation into role of evidence in the PIP assessment system in Northern Ireland finds ‘systemic maladministration’

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23 June, 2021

Treasury Minister confirms that government is committed to including universal credit advances within Breathing Space scheme ‘as soon as possible’

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23 June, 2021

Delay to rollout of devolved benefits in Scotland until 2025 is ‘highly regrettable’, say MPs

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23 June, 2021

Tribunal failed to consider safeguards against retrospective supersession decision when deciding DLA overpayment recovery appeal

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23 June, 2021 Open access

Scottish Government announces new £10 million grant fund to support tenants in rent arrears as a result of the pandemic

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23 June, 2021

First-tier Tribunal bound by decisions of the Upper Tribunal and, in particular, IM v SSWP

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