News and case law

17 November, 2020

Information Commissioner’s Office upholds DWP’s refusal to provide information about disciplinary action taken against staff member who made defamatory statements about claimant

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17 November, 2020

Amendments to the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013

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17 November, 2020 Open access

Communities Minister announces enhancements to self-isolation grant in Northern Ireland

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17 November, 2020

Government confirms that it has no plans to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into domestic law

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17 November, 2020

SSAC finds ‘strong case’ for Motability to improve accessibility of its services for disabled people

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17 November, 2020 Open access

Scottish Social Security Committee joins calls for UK Government to retain temporary uplift to universal credit and working tax credit and extend increase to legacy benefits

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16 November, 2020

Reallocation of monthly earnings to different universal credit assessment periods

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16 November, 2020 Open access

Devolved nations call on Work and Pensions Secretary to develop a ‘more strategic approach’ to benefit take-up

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16 November, 2020 Open access

More than 40 per cent of new benefit claimants during coronavirus crisis have seen their incomes fall by more than a quarter

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13 November, 2020 Open access

Government issues new Treasury Direction in relation to the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

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13 November, 2020

Commencement of Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020

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13 November, 2020

SSAC raises concerns that new arrangements to reallocate earnings to different universal credit assessment periods are overly reliant on claimants having to notify the DWP

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Court of Appeal rules that, where an offer of accommodation is made under main homelessness duty, suitability should be determined by reference to position at date the offer was made

Information Commissioner’s Office upholds DWP’s refusal to provide information about disciplinary action taken against staff member who made defamatory statements about claimant

Amendments to the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013

Communities Minister announces enhancements to self-isolation grant in Northern Ireland

Government confirms that it has no plans to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into domestic law

SSAC finds ‘strong case’ for Motability to improve accessibility of its services for disabled people

Scottish Social Security Committee joins calls for UK Government to retain temporary uplift to universal credit and working tax credit and extend increase to legacy benefits

Government publishes social housing White Paper setting out proposals to give tenants a stronger voice and to help ‘refocus the sector on its social mission’

Stay on bailiff enforcement of eviction action reintroduced until 11 January 2021

Reallocation of monthly earnings to different universal credit assessment periods

Devolved nations call on Work and Pensions Secretary to develop a ‘more strategic approach’ to benefit take-up

More than 40 per cent of new benefit claimants during coronavirus crisis have seen their incomes fall by more than a quarter

Suspension of Coronavirus Act provisions that allow for easement of duties on Scottish local authorities to assess care and support needs

Employment case law round up

Government issues new Treasury Direction in relation to the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

Commencement of Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020

High Court rules that a judgment entered in default against a housing authority must be set aside as, although Acknowledgment of Service was received out of time, it was filed before judgment was entered

High Court rules that UK Government has failed to properly apply provisions within EU health and safety directives to ‘gig economy’ workers

SSAC raises concerns that new arrangements to reallocate earnings to different universal credit assessment periods are overly reliant on claimants having to notify the DWP