News and case law

12 March, 2024

Uprating of pneumoconiosis lump sum payments in Northern Ireland from April 2024

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12 March, 2024

Amendment of specified diseases and prescribed occupations for purposes of pneumoconiosis compensation in Northern Ireland

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12 March, 2024

Around one in five children in Northern Ireland are living in poverty, with minimal reduction in levels over last eight years

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11 March, 2024

DWP confirms £38m investment for Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland to continue to deliver Help to Claim service

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11 March, 2024

Miscellaneous amendments to social security legislation including in relation to the ongoing migration of legacy benefit claimants to universal credit

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11 March, 2024

ICO upholds complaint against the DWP in relation to media reports that appeared to be aimed at ‘stirring up hostility’ towards disabled people claiming benefit

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11 March, 2024

National rollout of secure email process for local authorities to share care home admissions and funding information with DWP to start from June 2024

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11 March, 2024

DWP received just 20 complaints about universal credit migration process in the nine months to December 2023

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11 March, 2024

Scottish tribunal erred in law by failing to allow late claim for funeral expenses under provisions that relax deadlines if reason for lateness is ‘related’ to coronavirus

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7 March, 2024

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry to examine whether responsibility for employment support should be devolved to local areas

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7 March, 2024

Ensuring that uprating of guardian’s allowance for 2024/2025 does not apply where the claimant is living abroad

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HM Treasury publishes Debt Fairness Charter setting out how people repaying debts to central government should be treated

Housing Ombudsman consults on new Business Plan in ‘pivotal’ year for housing sector as key changes under Social Housing (Regulation) Act commence

Uprating of pneumoconiosis lump sum payments in Northern Ireland from April 2024

Amendment of specified diseases and prescribed occupations for purposes of pneumoconiosis compensation in Northern Ireland

Around one in five children in Northern Ireland are living in poverty, with minimal reduction in levels over last eight years

DWP confirms £38m investment for Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland to continue to deliver Help to Claim service

Government sets out proposals to exempt categories of dwellings from new council tax premium rules in England

Miscellaneous amendments to social security legislation including in relation to the ongoing migration of legacy benefit claimants to universal credit

ICO upholds complaint against the DWP in relation to media reports that appeared to be aimed at ‘stirring up hostility’ towards disabled people claiming benefit

National rollout of secure email process for local authorities to share care home admissions and funding information with DWP to start from June 2024

DWP received just 20 complaints about universal credit migration process in the nine months to December 2023

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Scottish tribunal erred in law by failing to allow late claim for funeral expenses under provisions that relax deadlines if reason for lateness is ‘related’ to coronavirus

Amendments to social care charging provisions in Wales in 2024/2025

Amendments to paternity leave provisions, including extension of period in which leave can be taken to 52 weeks

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry to examine whether responsibility for employment support should be devolved to local areas

Court of Appeal rules that lecturer’s disability was not the cause of university’s refusal to promote him and so no discrimination arose

Assessment of income for the purposes of charging for residential care in England in 2024/2025

Ensuring that uprating of guardian’s allowance for 2024/2025 does not apply where the claimant is living abroad