Welfare rights news and case law

22 November, 2005

Piloting the local housing allowance in the social rented sector

DWP expresses doubt about content of Housing Benefit Bill

22 November, 2005

DWP and other government support to be combined in ‘individual budgets’

New pilots will streamline assessment processes across agencies

22 November, 2005

Data sharing and travel bans amongst measures being considered by the CSA

Agency's chief executive to publish recovery plan shortly

22 November, 2005

Civil partnerships and benefits

New statutory instrument

22 November, 2005

Assessed income periods, and the treatment of financial assistance scheme payments

New pension credit regulations

21 November, 2005

Men should be given right to better-paid and longer periods of paternity leave

Citizens Advice urges government to rethink proposal to enable fathers to use only some of their partner's paid maternity leave

21 November, 2005

Key role of reconsideration in the decision-making and appeal process

New DWP guidance

21 November, 2005

A year of significant improvement and progress

Veterans Agency issues its annual report and accounts for 2004/2005

18 November, 2005

Whether hospital down-rating of retirement pension contrary to European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights

CP/518/2003

18 November, 2005

SERPS and civil partnerships (Northern Ireland)

New statutory rule

18 November, 2005

Pre-Budget Report to be delivered on 5 December

CPAG calls for government to make ending child poverty its centrepiece

18 November, 2005

More needs to be done to simplify the benefits system

Complexity one of the most important issues affecting DWP performance, says the National Audit Office

18 November, 2005

Miscellaneous changes to housing benefit and council tax benefit

New DWP guidance

18 November, 2005

Industrial injuries benefit & exposure to vinyl chloride monomer

Government announcement

18 November, 2005

Civil partnerships and benefits

New statutory instrument

17 November, 2005

Retirement age to rise in return for increased state pension

Turner Commission expected to recommend new rules from 2020

16 November, 2005

Miscellaneous changes to housing benefit (Northern Ireland)

New statutory rule

16 November, 2005

Child Support Agency not properly suited to carry out its tasks

Prime Minister agrees that urgent action required

16 November, 2005

Benefits in care homes and independent hospitals (Northern Ireland)

New statutory rule