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23 June, 2021

Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill introduced to Scottish Parliament

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22 June, 2021

More than 200,000 households had their benefit capped as at February 2021

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22 June, 2021

Court of Appeal considers whether local authority had properly assessed tenant’s ability to afford his rent in deciding that he had become intentionally homeless on his eviction for rent arrears

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22 June, 2021

DWP is working with PIP assessment providers to deliver audio recording service for face-to-face assessments ‘as soon as practically possible’

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22 June, 2021 Open access

Work and Pensions Secretary announces extension of Covid Local Support Grant to 30 September 2021

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22 June, 2021 Open access

Number of council tax reduction recipients in Scotland peaked at more than half a million in early months of Covid-19 outbreak

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21 June, 2021 Open access

Majority of self-isolation grant applications in England are still being turned down despite recently increased funding

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21 June, 2021 Open access

Long Covid must be urgently recognised as a disability and Covid-19 as an occupational disease

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21 June, 2021

DWP confirms it has started to reintroduce claimant commitments for ESA claimants

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21 June, 2021

More than 2 million requests for care and support have been turned down by England’s local authorities in the last two years

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21 June, 2021

Provision enabling increase of rents of statutory and protected tenancies in Northern Ireland

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21 June, 2021

Employment case law round up

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18 June, 2021

DWP advises that new exemptions from LHA shared accommodation rate for victims of domestic violence and modern slavery will take time to implement

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18 June, 2021

New exercise to identify ‘dual payments’ of severe disability premium and carer’s allowance likely to result in large overpayments, says DWP

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18 June, 2021

Tribunal correct to take two lots of four-weekly paid wages into account in one universal credit assessment period / Johnson and Pantellerisco did not apply

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18 June, 2021 Open access

Proposals to extend Covid-19 eviction and bankruptcy protections to be debated in the Scottish Parliament next week

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18 June, 2021

Scottish Government launches consultation on Scottish Social Housing Charter

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17 June, 2021

Chair of Independent Review of Administrative Law says that government ‘perhaps put a certain gloss’ on Review’s conclusions in framing its consultation on judicial review reform

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17 June, 2021 Open access

All workers in care homes must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 from October 2021

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