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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.

8 June, 2021

Ensuring that specified Hong Kong British National (Overseas) citizens are eligible for an allocation of housing or homelessness assistance

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8 June, 2021

Minister outlines process for universal credit claimants to be able to ‘undergo a biographical test’ where they are unable to provide documentary evidence to verify their identity

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8 June, 2021 Open access

Minister confirms that DWP has resumed face-to-face work capability assessments

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8 June, 2021

Extension of homelessness priority need to all victims of domestic abuse expected to come into effect in July 2021

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8 June, 2021

Government announces plans to create a single enforcement body for employment rights

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7 June, 2021

Scottish Government calls for cross-party support for bid for full devolution of employment powers to aid post-pandemic recovery

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7 June, 2021

Welsh Government launches £3 million respite fund for unpaid carers

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7 June, 2021

Northern Ireland Communities Minister announces review of Discretionary Support scheme

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7 June, 2021

Employment case law round up

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4 June, 2021

CJEU rules that, where pay conditions can be attributed to a single source, the work and the pay of workers can be compared even if they work in different establishments

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4 June, 2021

MHCLG issues guidance to local authorities on new ‘fit and proper person test’ for owners or managers of park home sites

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4 June, 2021

DWP confirms that HS2 noise insulation grants can be disregarded for housing benefit purposes

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3 June, 2021

Supermarkets in UK ‘have suffered another blow in the battle for equal pay’ following CJEU ruling that Tesco store workers entitled to compare themselves to colleagues in distribution centres

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3 June, 2021

DWP accepts it has discretion to waive recoverable hardship payment debts after conceding judicial review

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3 June, 2021 Open access

Number of individuals on furlough reduced by 900,000 in month to 30 April 2021, falling to 3.4 million

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3 June, 2021 Open access

Scotland’s First Minister calls on UK Government to extend CJRS ‘for as long as it is needed’

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3 June, 2021

Department of Health and Social Care concedes legal action challenging lawfulness of Healthy Start scheme rules that exclude disadvantaged migrant children

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2 June, 2021

Tribunals must recognise, and now certainly know, that much of their work is best conducted face-to-face, says Senior President of Tribunals

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2 June, 2021 Open access

More than 6 million awards made under Covid Winter Grant Scheme in period up to 16 April 2021

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