News and case law

11 October, 2018

DWP publishes first statistics on Specialist Employability Support programme

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10 October, 2018

Private sector to take over responsibility for government's online identity verification system used for universal credit

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10 October, 2018

Minister confirms that a further 250,000 claimants are to be assessed for underpayment of ESA following agreement to fully backdate arrears

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10 October, 2018

Tribunal failed to adequately assess if terms of a jobseeker’s agreement were reasonable to comply with / Allegations of bias and recusal of Upper Tribunal judge

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10 October, 2018

Principle of ‘estoppel per rem judicatum’ does not apply in determination of housing benefit claims

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10 October, 2018

Healthy Start Vouchers to be replaced by Best Start Foods in Scotland

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10 October, 2018

Time limit for claiming a Sure Start maternity grant extended to six months in Northern Ireland

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10 October, 2018

Clarification of time limits for submitting notices of appeal to the decision maker in housing benefit and council tax benefit cases

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9 October, 2018

UK Government should mitigate adverse impacts of social security reforms on disabled people

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9 October, 2018

Claimants who were underpaid ESA on conversion from incapacity benefit will not be compensated for other losses such as passported benefits

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9 October, 2018

Vulnerable customers have access to ‘assisted digital’ support by telephone as part of its modernisation programme, says HMCTS

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9 October, 2018

Housing benefit is a specified benefit for the purposes of transitional protection from right to reside test / tribunal must exercise inquisitorial jurisdiction where 'clearly apparent' that protection may apply

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Access to good care increasingly dependent on how local systems work together, says CQC

DWP publishes first statistics on Specialist Employability Support programme

Government launches consultation on mandatory ethnicity pay reporting

Private sector to take over responsibility for government's online identity verification system used for universal credit

Minister confirms that a further 250,000 claimants are to be assessed for underpayment of ESA following agreement to fully backdate arrears

Nottingham City Council (Appellant) v Parr and another (Respondents)

Scottish Housing Regulator launches consultation on the regulation of social housing in Scotland

Tribunal failed to adequately assess if terms of a jobseeker’s agreement were reasonable to comply with / Allegations of bias and recusal of Upper Tribunal judge

More than half of renters are not shown a tenancy agreement before putting down money on a property

Principle of ‘estoppel per rem judicatum’ does not apply in determination of housing benefit claims

Healthy Start Vouchers to be replaced by Best Start Foods in Scotland

Government launches Private Rented Sector Access Fund

Time limit for claiming a Sure Start maternity grant extended to six months in Northern Ireland

Clarification of time limits for submitting notices of appeal to the decision maker in housing benefit and council tax benefit cases

UK Government should mitigate adverse impacts of social security reforms on disabled people

Council tax should be replaced with an annual property tax charged to owners, IPPR proposes

Claimants who were underpaid ESA on conversion from incapacity benefit will not be compensated for other losses such as passported benefits

Vulnerable customers have access to ‘assisted digital’ support by telephone as part of its modernisation programme, says HMCTS

Housing benefit is a specified benefit for the purposes of transitional protection from right to reside test / tribunal must exercise inquisitorial jurisdiction where 'clearly apparent' that protection may apply