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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.

1 November, 2023

Ensuring that residence tests for benefit entitlement are met for certain persons arriving from Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Lebanon

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1 November, 2023

Citizens Advice expresses serious concern that government’s proposed changes to WCA would do more harm than good

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1 November, 2023

Scottish Government introduces Bill to improve the experience of people using the services provided by Social Security Scotland

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1 November, 2023

Scottish Government urged to take opportunity presented by introduction of new pension age disability benefit to reconsider justification for excluding a mobility component

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31 October, 2023

More than 60 per cent of people see fraud and error in the welfare benefits system as a big problem

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31 October, 2023

High Court rules that a local authority’s decision not to accommodate a disabled asylum seeker, based on its assessment that his care and support needs were not accommodation-related, was unlawful

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31 October, 2023

Scottish Government sets out ‘positive changes’ introduced to Job Start Payment

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30 October, 2023

Court of Appeal rules that property guardian companies were subject to local authority licensing requirements and were running unlicensed HMOs

More Housing case law

30 October, 2023

LGA calls on government to use Autumn Statement to restore LHA rates to 30th percentile

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30 October, 2023

Introduction of Carer Support Payment in Scotland

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30 October, 2023

Scotland’s latest Ending Homelessness Together report shows Ministers ‘still have their heads in the sand’ about the housing emergency

More Housing news

30 October, 2023

Welsh Government confirms continuation of policy of no evictions due to financial hardship for social sector tenants that engage with their landlords

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30 October, 2023

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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30 October, 2023

Exemption from requirement to satisfy habitual residence test or past presence test in Northern Ireland for people fleeing the conflict following the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023

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27 October, 2023

EHRC calls for urgent changes to government’s WCA consultation to ensure that disabled people are able to engage with the process

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27 October, 2023

Public Bill Committee launches call for views on Renters (Reform) Bill

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27 October, 2023

High Court rules that Secretary of State’s decision to house vulnerable asylum seeker in Swindon, away from his support network in South London, was unlawful

More Housing case law