News and case law

22 November, 2018

Amendment of EEA residence provisions to account for CJEU judgments in Gusa, Lounes, Chavez-Vilchex, and O and B

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22 November, 2018

Additional amounts for children and qualifying young persons in pension credit awards

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21 November, 2018

Tribunal failed to give adequate reasons for deciding that regulation 35 was no longer satisfied in case where claimant's blood pressure was so high that HCP curtailed assessment to send him to A&E

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21 November, 2018

Amendment of social security regulations in Northern Ireland consequent upon the introduction of the best start grant in Scotland

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20 November, 2018

Amber Rudd acknowledges that there are problems with universal credit and says that she will make it her role to deliver improvements

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20 November, 2018

Applications for Scotland’s best start grant payment open from 10 December 2018

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20 November, 2018

Passive presence of another person to enable claimant to follow a journey can be sufficient to satisfy mobility descriptors 1d or 1f

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20 November, 2018

Department for Communities responds to independent review on how PIP is working in Northern Ireland

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19 November, 2018

Tribunals may need to consider validity of conditionality requirements imposed on claimants when deciding sanction cases

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19 November, 2018

Secretary of State's appeals in bedroom tax cases allowed due to Court of Appeal decision in Carmichael but claimants allowed to 'leap-frog' further appeal to Supreme Court

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16 November, 2018

Amber Rudd replaces Esther McVey as Work and Pensions Secretary

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16 November, 2018

Level of child poverty in UK is 'not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster', says UN Special Rapporteur

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Amendment of EEA residence provisions to account for CJEU judgments in Gusa, Lounes, Chavez-Vilchex, and O and B

Additional amounts for children and qualifying young persons in pension credit awards

Government took a ‘short-sighted approach’ to its sale of student loans, says Select Committee

New Shelter research highlights 4 per cent increase in homelessness during 2017/2018

FCA launches consultation on introduction of a price cap on the ‘rent-to-own’ sector

Tribunal failed to give adequate reasons for deciding that regulation 35 was no longer satisfied in case where claimant's blood pressure was so high that HCP curtailed assessment to send him to A&E

Amendment of social security regulations in Northern Ireland consequent upon the introduction of the best start grant in Scotland

Government intervention in the housing market subsidises home-owners more than renters, says CIH

Almost two million workers in the UK are on the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage

Amber Rudd acknowledges that there are problems with universal credit and says that she will make it her role to deliver improvements

Applications for Scotland’s best start grant payment open from 10 December 2018

Passive presence of another person to enable claimant to follow a journey can be sufficient to satisfy mobility descriptors 1d or 1f

Department for Communities responds to independent review on how PIP is working in Northern Ireland

Tribunals may need to consider validity of conditionality requirements imposed on claimants when deciding sanction cases

Secretary of State's appeals in bedroom tax cases allowed due to Court of Appeal decision in Carmichael but claimants allowed to 'leap-frog' further appeal to Supreme Court

Network Homes Ltd v Harlow

Employment case law round up

Amber Rudd replaces Esther McVey as Work and Pensions Secretary

Level of child poverty in UK is 'not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster', says UN Special Rapporteur