News and case law

18 February, 2019

DWP to run pilots to 'actively explain and promote' more frequent payments when people first claim universal credit

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18 February, 2019

Coalition of charities calls for lift on benefit freeze and an end to five-week wait for universal credit

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18 February, 2019

Local authority's management of Housing Benefit Data Matching Process was not so deficient as to amount to an official error when considering recovery of overpayment

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15 February, 2019

DWP estimates that exclusion of mixed-age couples from entitlement to pension credit will save £220 million in 2021/2022

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15 February, 2019

Pilot scheme testing universal credit in-work conditionality to be extended for further 12 months

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14 February, 2019

Seven per cent of all universal credit claimants are having deductions at 40 per cent of their standard allowance

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14 February, 2019

Almost a fifth of new universal credit claims are closed due to ‘non-compliance with the process’

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14 February, 2019

All-Party Parliamentary Group launches inquiry into effects of the 2016 Welfare Reform and Work Act

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14 February, 2019

Continuation of help with NHS costs following the introduction of integrated health and care services

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14 February, 2019

Scottish Commission on Social Security is 'open for business' and one of first tasks is scrutiny of Young Carer Grant regulations

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14 February, 2019

Judicial review is not an appropriate remedy in a case where statutory appeal is available to challenge refusal to make provisional CTC payments

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14 February, 2019

Tax credits and guardian’s allowance uprating 2019/2020

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DWP to run pilots to 'actively explain and promote' more frequent payments when people first claim universal credit

Coalition of charities calls for lift on benefit freeze and an end to five-week wait for universal credit

Local authority's management of Housing Benefit Data Matching Process was not so deficient as to amount to an official error when considering recovery of overpayment

New regulations issued in Scotland in relation to the First-tier Tribunal Housing & Property Chamber

Tenant Fees Act 2019 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2019

Employment case law round up

DWP estimates that exclusion of mixed-age couples from entitlement to pension credit will save £220 million in 2021/2022

Consultation launched on changes to rules relating to enforcement of possession orders

Pilot scheme testing universal credit in-work conditionality to be extended for further 12 months

Debt and mental health organisations make joint call to establish independent bailiff regulator

Seven per cent of all universal credit claimants are having deductions at 40 per cent of their standard allowance

Almost a fifth of new universal credit claims are closed due to ‘non-compliance with the process’

All-Party Parliamentary Group launches inquiry into effects of the 2016 Welfare Reform and Work Act

Continuation of help with NHS costs following the introduction of integrated health and care services

Scottish Commission on Social Security is 'open for business' and one of first tasks is scrutiny of Young Carer Grant regulations

Judicial review is not an appropriate remedy in a case where statutory appeal is available to challenge refusal to make provisional CTC payments

Mortgage possession action claims up by 30 per cent compared to the same period last year

Tax credits and guardian’s allowance uprating 2019/2020

B, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Redbridge