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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.

17 January, 2018

Teign Housing v Lane

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17 January, 2018

Rochford v WNS Global Services (UK) Ltd & Ors

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16 January, 2018

Uprating of war pensions and allowances 2018/2019

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16 January, 2018

Quarter of low-income households have high debt repayments or are behind with bills, says IFS

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15 January, 2018

Department for Communities launches independent review of PIP in Northern Ireland

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15 January, 2018

Both Secretary of State and representatives should provide relevant evidence to the tribunal / requirement for tribunal to explain different outcome on PIP renewal claim

More Welfare rights case law

15 January, 2018

Inquiry launched into the causes of, and support available to prevent, rough sleeping in Wales

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15 January, 2018

Further roll-out of universal credit in Northern Ireland

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15 January, 2018

Consultation launched on proposed safeguards for property left in abandoned dwellings in Wales

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15 January, 2018

Employment case law round up

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12 January, 2018

Peter Schofield appointed Permanent Secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions

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12 January, 2018

MPs raise concerns that HMRC is not doing enough to support vulnerable tax credits claimants as they transfer to universal credit

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12 January, 2018

Standard of reasons required when tribunal finds an overpayment recoverable for a failure to furnish information, and when imposing a civil penalty

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11 January, 2018

96 per cent of 18 to 21-year-old universal credit housing costs claimants awarded support since automatic entitlement ended in April 2017

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11 January, 2018

Most homelessness provision is not accessible to non-EEA migrants and is leading to destitution

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11 January, 2018

Ombudsman finds council at fault for not taking over payment of care home top-up fees

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11 January, 2018

In considering whether to proceed without an oral hearing, a tribunal must consider whether it is fair, not merely if it has 'sufficient material'

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