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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.

23 August, 2017

Social security reforms introduced since 2010 are affecting disabled people's rights to independent living

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23 August, 2017

Appeals for failing to attend a medical assessment must be heard by a judge, medical practitioner and disability member

More Welfare rights case law

22 August, 2017

Council to review its cases after lack of homecare causes couple to be separated for 10 months

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21 August, 2017

Return of inflation means the benefits freeze has become 'toxic' for struggling families, says Child Poverty Action Group

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21 August, 2017

DWP’s Fraud and Error Service to carry out initial investigation of possible incorrect declaration of capital for housing benefit purposes

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21 August, 2017

Employment case law round up

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18 August, 2017

Julie Armstrong and others and Jennifer McDonald and others against Glasgow City Council

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18 August, 2017

Stay on claims to Employment Tribunal following the UNISON case is lifted

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18 August, 2017

Meeting the past presence test through residence in Member States for the purposes of attendance allowance and DLA

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17 August, 2017

Partridge v Gupta

More Housing case law

17 August, 2017

Ombudsman urges councils to ensure their homelessness procedures are fit for purpose

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16 August, 2017

3.4 per cent of universal credit claimants had a sanction deduction applied to their claim in December 2016

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16 August, 2017

Government to proceed with competitive tendering approach for Housing Possession Court Duty Schemes

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16 August, 2017

60 per cent of people claiming universal credit have been claiming the benefit for more than six months

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15 August, 2017

Matters to consider when tribunals exercise discretion to set or alter the level of a tax credit penalty

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15 August, 2017

Radical change needed to reduce gender, ethnicity and disability pay gaps, says EHRC

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15 August, 2017

Repayment of Student Loans and Postgraduate Master’s Degree Loans (Amendment) Regulations 2017

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14 August, 2017

Employment case law round up

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11 August, 2017

Care leavers are three times more likely to be sanctioned than their peers, says Children’s Society

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