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19 March, 2021

Money and Pensions Service to launch ‘holistic new consumer brand’ later in 2021

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19 March, 2021 Open access

PCS says that it will oppose DWP’s decision to resume normal jobcentre opening hours from 12 April 2021 ‘by any means necessary’

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19 March, 2021

One in three BME workers say they have been unfairly turned down for a job

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19 March, 2021 Open access

Extension of universal credit uplift and suspension of minimum income floor in Northern Ireland

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19 March, 2021

National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates and pay calculation rules from April 2021

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19 March, 2021

Amendment of provisions relating to stateless persons’ eligibility for allocation of housing accommodation and housing assistance in Wales

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18 March, 2021

Government publishes plans to reform the judicial review process despite its own review panel urging it to think long and hard before seeking to curtail the judiciary’s powers

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18 March, 2021

High Court rules that DWP’s universal credit deductions policy’s use of a rigid formula in respect of court fines, rather than the exercise of discretion as the legislation requires, is unlawful

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18 March, 2021

Scottish Parliament votes in favour of Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill becoming law

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18 March, 2021

Ban on enforcement of eviction action in Wales extended to 30 June 2021

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18 March, 2021

Welsh Housing Minister sets out leasehold reform plans that include a permanent restriction of future ground rents to zero ‘at the earliest legislative opportunity’

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18 March, 2021

DWP issues new guidance on the effect of the Court of Appeal’s decision in the Fratila case

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18 March, 2021 Open access

Five year period during which local housing authorities in Wales must reassess accommodation needs of Gypsies and Travellers extended by a year

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18 March, 2021 Open access

Making permanent some of the temporary bankruptcy changes introduced by the emergency Coronavirus (Scotland) (No. 2) Act 2020

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18 March, 2021

Government invites local authorities in England to submit proposals and bids for future years of the Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme

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18 March, 2021

Local authorities to receive almost £750,000 to make changes to benefit forms, leaflets and websites as a result of changes to personal allowances for people who reach state pension age on or after 1 April 2021

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17 March, 2021

Uber’s reclassification of its UK drivers as workers following landmark Supreme Court judgment will ‘shake up gig economy’

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17 March, 2021

Northern Ireland’s Minister for Communities confirms there will be no cut to advice sector funding in 2021/2022

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17 March, 2021 Open access

Scottish Social Security Committee expresses ‘considerable concern’ about significant number of people unable to access social security support during Covid pandemic

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