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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.

19 October, 2023

Select Committee seeks clarification of guidance to local authorities on circumstances when Household Support Fund payments will be classified as public funds for immigration purposes

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18 October, 2023

Renters (Reform) Bill to receive second reading in House of Commons next week

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18 October, 2023

With families needing certainty that benefits will keep pace with rising prices, it is ‘unacceptable’ for ministers to cast doubt on uprating them in line with inflation

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18 October, 2023

Energy suppliers to be required to be proactive in supporting consumers struggling with bills by offering debt repayment plans ‘at the earliest opportunity’

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17 October, 2023

NAO warns that local authorities’ estimates that there are almost 5,000 homeless Ukrainian refugee households in England are likely to understate the true figure

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17 October, 2023

Scottish First Minister announces council tax bills will be frozen in 2024/2025

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17 October, 2023

DWP confirms that it expects to spend almost £89 million on the Flexible Support Fund in 2023/2024

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17 October, 2023

Carers struggling with cost of living pressures are being ‘forced deeper into poverty’ by restrictive carer’s allowance earning rules

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17 October, 2023

Housing Ombudsman’s findings of severe maladministration increased by more than 300 per cent in 2022/2023

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16 October, 2023

Fifth and final Health Transformation Programme assessment contract for period from 2024 to 2029 awarded to Serco

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16 October, 2023

Whether a third country national granted entry clearance under the EU Family Permit route to join partner in Northern Ireland could establish a right to reside for universal credit purposes

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16 October, 2023

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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13 October, 2023

Number of households in England assessed as homeless in 2022/2023 was more than 12 per cent higher than pre-Covid-19 level

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13 October, 2023

‘Worst possible time’ for Ofgem to increase energy bills when consumer debt has reached a record £2.6 billion

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13 October, 2023

Coordination of social security legislation between Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Scotland

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13 October, 2023

Amendment of day from which alteration to a council tax valuation list in Wales takes effect

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12 October, 2023

Court of Appeal rules that denial of bereavement support payment to family of deceased woman who had been unable to work and pay NI contributions due to severe disability is unlawful

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