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17 December, 2020 Open access

DWP re-introduces ‘Failure to Attend’ process for PIP claimants who miss their telephone assessment

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17 December, 2020

Whether limiting a disabled claimant’s housing benefit to the one-bedroom shared accommodation rate of the local housing allowance amounts to unlawful discrimination

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17 December, 2020 Open access

Number of people living in temporary accommodation in England reaches 14 year high

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17 December, 2020

DWP enters legally binding agreement with EHRC committing to improve equality and diversity in the workplace

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17 December, 2020

Overcrowding is at the highest rate seen in both the social rented and private rented sectors, according to latest English Housing Survey

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17 December, 2020

English and Welsh local authorities spent 40 per cent of total discretionary housing payment allocations in first half of 2020/2021

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17 December, 2020 Open access

Debt clients are more likely to have rent or council tax arrears, receive universal credit, or be out of work since COVID-19 crisis began

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17 December, 2020 Open access

Work and Pensions Secretary confirms there are no plans to extend benefit cap grace period in universal credit

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16 December, 2020 Open access

‘Significant increase’ in the number of calls to DWP Debt Management in November 2020 led to more than 50,000 calls per day being blocked

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16 December, 2020

Providing Court of Appeal and equivalent courts across UK with power to depart from retained EU case law after Brexit

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16 December, 2020

Law Commission launches consultation on reforming structure of devolved tribunals in Wales

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16 December, 2020 Open access

Senior President of Tribunals provides Justice Committee with update on performance of Employment Tribunals during coronavirus pandemic

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16 December, 2020 Open access

Lord Chancellor provides Justice Committee with further information about stay on evictions that is due to expire on 11 January 2021

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16 December, 2020

Court of Appeal considers whether a claimant caused statutory overcrowding by his own ‘deliberate act’ and should therefore be excluded from council’s highest priority banding for rehousing

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16 December, 2020

High Court considers application to lift suspension from work pending investigation of conflict of interest caused by employee’s trade union-related activities

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16 December, 2020 Open access

Decade of austerity and increasing impoverishment of many households prior to COVID-19 pandemic is affecting impacts of containment measures, says Institute of Health Equity

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16 December, 2020 Open access

Government urged to introduce four-point plan to tackle single parent poverty after coronavirus and retain £20 uplift to universal credit

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15 December, 2020 Open access

‘Perfect storm’ has made the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic particularly acute for BAME people, say MPs

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15 December, 2020

High Court rules that government’s operation of asylum support scheme is unlawful and discriminatory

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