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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.

2 November, 2020 Open access

Almost one in eight private renters are unable to meet their housing costs in full

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2 November, 2020

Employment case law round up

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31 October, 2020 Open access

Government announces extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme until December 2020

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31 October, 2020 Open access

COVID-19 mortgage payment holidays to continue to be available beyond 31 October 2020

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30 October, 2020

Court of Appeal considers whether a section 8 Housing Act 1988 notice must contain the landlord’s own name and address, as opposed to the name and address of the landlord’s agent

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30 October, 2020 Open access

Faith leaders urge Prime Minister to ‘take the politics out of child poverty’ and establish a cross-party commission to ‘eliminate the scandal of child poverty for good’

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30 October, 2020 Open access

Social care workers in Wales to have SSP topped up to level of normal wages if they have coronavirus or are required to self-isolate

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30 October, 2020 Open access

DWP confirms that 4,500 new work coaches are now ‘lined up’ to join jobcentres across the UK

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30 October, 2020

Ensuring that restrictions on awards of PIP mobility component apply to claimants in Scotland whose award is superseded after state pension age on medical evidence grounds

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30 October, 2020

Apparent bias of First-tier Tribunal that used knowledge of claimant gained from previous hearings / whether use of tribunal clerk to communicate with claimant prior to hearing was appropriate

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29 October, 2020

Public more likely to think unemployment benefits are too low rather than too high even before COVID-19 pandemic struck

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29 October, 2020 Open access

Money Advice Trust calls on government to commission full review of debt options in the wake of COVID-19

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29 October, 2020 Open access

Number of households in temporary accommodation approached 100,000 at end of first three full months of coronavirus pandemic, up more than six per cent on March 2020 figure

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29 October, 2020 Open access

Government confirms funding allocation to provide more than 3,000 new long-term homes for rough sleepers by the end of March 2021

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29 October, 2020

Correct approach to assessing medical evidence if PIP assessment report has been carried out by publicly discredited assessor appointed by the Secretary of State

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29 October, 2020

Capital from a former home can be disregarded if it is ‘more probable than not’ that it will be used for a new home

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28 October, 2020 Open access

With labour market crisis likely to accelerate over winter, government must protect the incomes of those most affected, says Resolution Foundation

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