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19 December, 2022

Where Upper Tribunal has accepted appeal on one ground, it need not address other grounds

FW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
2022 UKUT 304 (AAC)
UA-2021-000810-PIP

19 December, 2022

Tick box answers in PIP2 questionnaire cannot be used by First-tier Tribunal as a proxy to obviate the need to make findings about the frequency of a claimant’s difficulties

AW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
2022 UKUT 316 (AAC)
UA-2021-000723-PIP

19 December, 2022

Scottish Government sets out draft uprated devolved benefit rates for 2023/2024

Publication follows budget announcement confirming that rates will increase by 10.1 per cent from April 2023

16 December, 2022

MPs express concern about ‘shocking’ benefit sanction figures that show that more than £36 million is being ‘clawed back’ from claimants every month

Clear that Department’s approach to sanctions has changed 'in ways that Ministers have so far been unwilling to explain or justify', says Shadow Work and Pensions Minister

16 December, 2022

Independent Case Examiner says that she is working with the DWP to understand the increase in unresolved complaints being referred to her office and to ‘see how that might be stemmed’

Foreword to 2021/2022 annual report notes that increase of almost 70 per cent in cases being accepted for review has led to intake being greater than output by more than 300 cases

16 December, 2022

DWP says that bereavement benefit reforms will take effect from date of Supreme Court judgment in 2018 because that was when incompatibility with ECHR ‘was accepted as final’

Minister provides response to written question in Parliament on implications of reforms not taking effect from date of original High Court decision in 2016

16 December, 2022

Scottish Affairs Committee launches inquiry into whether the needs of rural communities in Scotland are adequately met by the UK Government’s cost of living support

Views sought on what further steps the UK Government could take in light of 'ever-spiralling heating bills, transport costs and decline of public services' in Scotland's rural areas

15 December, 2022

Scottish Government commits to increasing devolved benefits by 10.1 per cent in April 2023

Delivering the Scottish Budget 2023/2024, Deputy First Minister says that having already increased Scottish child payment, the government will invest £428 million to uprate all other benefits under its control by September’s CPI inflation level

15 December, 2022

Almost a third of local authorities in England and Wales have already spent more than 60 per cent of their DHP budget in first half of 2022/2023

New DWP statistics also highlight that almost two-thirds of expenditure was related to welfare reforms

15 December, 2022

Around £44 million has been paid out as a result of PIP review exercise following Upper Tribunal decisions relating to ‘psychological distress’ and carrying out activities ‘safely’

In final report on administrative exercise, DWP confirms that it has made around 4,300 arrears payments after carrying out more than two million award reviews

15 December, 2022

DWP confirms that average clearance time for referrals to National Special Payments Team is nine days

Aim is always that special payment decisions 'should culminate in timely and appropriate redress for our customers', says Minister

14 December, 2022

More than 2 million households have at least one deduction taken from their universal credit payment every month

Responding to a written question in Parliament, DWP Minister also advises that an average of £62 is being deducted from people's benefits every month

14 December, 2022

MPs call for 2023/2024 cost of living payments to be spread out across the winter months to help mitigate the effect of ‘perverse cliff edges’

Highlighting the risk of creating work disincentives, Treasury Committee also suggests that the government considers introducing a taper to respond to increases in income

14 December, 2022

JRF calls on government to provide additional cost of living payments this winter, including at least £450 to those on means-tested benefits

New report finds that, as a result of rising prices, more than 60 per cent of low-income households are going without basics, rising to 90 per cent for those on universal credit

14 December, 2022

Tribunal’s failure to put to a child DLA claimant’s appointee the strategies it considered could reduce the child’s need for attention below the threshold for an award amounted to an error of law

KH (by CH) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (DLA)
2022 UKUT 303 (AAC)
UA-2021-000448-DLA

14 December, 2022

Increasing the profit level at which the self-employed become liable to pay Class 2 national insurance contributions

New statutory instrument

14 December, 2022

Welsh Government says that its best efforts to prevent and mitigate child poverty ‘have been hindered by decisions taken by the UK Government’

New child poverty progress report shows that more than 30 per cent of children in Wales lived in poverty in three-year period to 2020

13 December, 2022

DWP sets out ambitious ‘new approach’ to helping people progress in work

Responding to July 2021 report from the In-Work Progression Commission, Secretary of State says the Department's plans will 'enable people to have higher quality, higher paying jobs'

13 December, 2022

200,000 new claims for PIP were made in England and Wales in the quarter to October 2022, up more than a fifth over the last year

Meanwhile, almost 27,000 part 1 applications were made for ADP in Scotland in the first two months following its national launch in August 2022