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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.

15 March, 2021

DWP issues guidance on entitlement to housing benefit in final universal credit assessment period in which claimant reaches state pension age

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15 March, 2021

Policies aimed at addressing the gender pay gap must consider role of social norms and maternity and paternity policies

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15 March, 2021

Transferring loans under the Support for Mortgage Interest loan scheme to a new property without the need to repay them first

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15 March, 2021

Scottish Government publishes first ever long-term housing strategy incorporating vision for what housing and communities should look like in 2040

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15 March, 2021

Almost 8,000 households presented as homeless in Northern Ireland in last six months of 2020

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15 March, 2021

Telephone and video added as channels for undertaking medical assessments for ESA, universal credit, PIP and industrial injuries disablement benefit in Northern Ireland

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15 March, 2021

Employment case law round up

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12 March, 2021 Open access

High Court rules that local authorities have powers to lawfully house people with no recourse to public funds during Covid-19 pandemic

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12 March, 2021 Open access

DWP reissues uprating guidance following Budget 2021 announcement that universal credit uplift will continue until September 2021

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12 March, 2021 Open access

DWP confirms that Covid Winter Grant Scheme will be extended to 16 April 2021

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12 March, 2021

MoJ says it will review what delivery options outlined in its Legal Support Action Plan remain worth pursuing 'after our recovery from Covid-19'

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12 March, 2021

Uprating of weekly rate for NHS-funded nursing care paid to care homes from April 2021

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12 March, 2021

Welsh Government announces measures to remove means test on small and medium Disabled Facilities Grants from April 2021

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12 March, 2021

One in eight workers are forced to leave the workplace due to ill-health before reaching state retirement age, says TUC

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12 March, 2021

National Taskforce in Scotland publishes recommendations for incorporating international human rights treaties into domestic law

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12 March, 2021 Open access

Disregarding one-off payment of £500 to working tax credit claimants for purposes of council tax reduction in Scotland

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12 March, 2021

Equality Act 2010 provisions relating to the public sector socio-economic duty in Wales

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12 March, 2021

Uprating of mesothelioma lump sum payments from April 2021 in Northern Ireland

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12 March, 2021

Revaluation of earnings factors used to calculate additional state pension and guaranteed minimum pensions in Northern Ireland

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