News and case law

15 December, 2020

Exceptions to the two-child policy are ‘considered and compassionate’, government tells Work and Pensions Committee

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15 December, 2020

Whether separate claims and separate decisions are required before every prescribed disease claimed under industrial injuries benefit system can be considered

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15 December, 2020 Open access

Regulations introduced to freeze local housing allowance rates in 2021/2022

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15 December, 2020 Open access

All Party Parliamentary Group launches call for evidence on the impact on poverty of ending the £20 ‘uplift’ in universal credit and tax credits

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15 December, 2020

Number of PIP mandatory reconsiderations has only returned to half that recorded for the same period last year

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14 December, 2020

Entitlement to SDP transitional protection for claimants migrating to universal credit from 27 January 2021

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14 December, 2020 Open access

Living standards of low-income families continue to deteriorate as a result of COVID-19

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14 December, 2020 Open access

Ethnic minority groups need more comprehensive access to state benefits to help mitigate housing pressures and the impact they have on COVID-19 transmission

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14 December, 2020 Open access

Work coaches raise concerns about reduction of appointment times following the reintroduction of conditionality

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14 December, 2020 Open access

Miscellaneous amendments to tax credit legislation in consequence of changes introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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11 December, 2020 Open access

Independent Food Aid Network reports a more than 60 per cent increase in the number of emergency food parcels distributed by independent food banks

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11 December, 2020 Open access

EHRC finds ‘sustained or severe regression’ in protection of people’s standard of living linked to UK Government’s failure to effectively meet international human rights standards

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11 December, 2020

Government confirms that almost 6,000 cases of universal credit identity theft have been referred to DWP’s Stolen Identity Team since June 2020

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Exceptions to the two-child policy are ‘considered and compassionate’, government tells Work and Pensions Committee

Call for action to improve housing outcomes for women and children experiencing domestic abuse

Whether separate claims and separate decisions are required before every prescribed disease claimed under industrial injuries benefit system can be considered

Regulations introduced to freeze local housing allowance rates in 2021/2022

All Party Parliamentary Group launches call for evidence on the impact on poverty of ending the £20 ‘uplift’ in universal credit and tax credits

Number of PIP mandatory reconsiderations has only returned to half that recorded for the same period last year

Entitlement to SDP transitional protection for claimants migrating to universal credit from 27 January 2021

Living standards of low-income families continue to deteriorate as a result of COVID-19

Ethnic minority groups need more comprehensive access to state benefits to help mitigate housing pressures and the impact they have on COVID-19 transmission

Chancellor needs to ‘get ahead of the curve’ and shift focus away from COVID-19 wage subsidies and towards creating job opportunities

Work coaches raise concerns about reduction of appointment times following the reintroduction of conditionality

DWP announces further details of its new Restart scheme for long-term unemployed universal credit claimants

Miscellaneous amendments to tax credit legislation in consequence of changes introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

ONS reports highest annual number of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales since records started in 2013

MHCLG confirms funding allocations to more than 40 local authorities in England to support rough sleepers with drug and alcohol dependency

Employment case law round up

Independent Food Aid Network reports a more than 60 per cent increase in the number of emergency food parcels distributed by independent food banks

EHRC finds ‘sustained or severe regression’ in protection of people’s standard of living linked to UK Government’s failure to effectively meet international human rights standards

Government confirms that almost 6,000 cases of universal credit identity theft have been referred to DWP’s Stolen Identity Team since June 2020