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8 September, 2021

Seven appeals relating to the Scottish child payment have been put on pause by the First-tier Tribunal in Scotland while the ‘law is looked at again’

Law which prevents payment of benefit to a claimant where a person not responsible for the child is receiving other benefits relating to the child is 'clearly not what was intended and is unfair', says Social Security Chamber

7 September, 2021

Work and Pensions Secretary announces that earnings element of state pension triple lock will be suspended for one year

Statement to Parliament confirms that pension for 2022/2023 will rise by higher of inflation or 2.5 per cent due to Covid-19-related 'statistical anomaly' in wage growth

7 September, 2021

Measures to help create a fairer Scotland set out in new Programme for Government 2021/2022

Programme establishes our clear priority to support Scotland out of the pandemic and towards a better future, says First Minister

7 September, 2021

Claimant found not to have created rent liability to take advantage of housing benefit scheme where entitlement was the same as it was before the liability was created

MP v Sutton London Borough Council (HB)
[2021] UKUT 193 (AAC)
CH/1720/2020

7 September, 2021

DWP confirms two-year extension of regional PIP health assessment contracts across the UK to 31 July 2023

Incumbent providers, Atos Healthcare and Capita, to receive further payments under contract extension to prevent gaps in service pending the delayed development of integrated assessment service

7 September, 2021

APPG launches call for evidence as part of its inquiry into in-work poverty

Cross-party group of MPs and peers seeks to explore actions that both employers and government can take to reduce the number of working households living in poverty

3 September, 2021 Open access

Human Rights Watch warns MPs that removal of universal credit and tax credit ‘uplift’ would breach UK’s international human rights obligations

Letter urges MPs to use period immediately following resumption of Parliament to 'make the government think again'

3 September, 2021

DWP indicates that ‘Functional Assessment Service’ contracts from August 2023 will be worth more than £2bn

Single successful provider in each geographical area will carry out PIP assessments and work capability assessments for ESA and universal credit

3 September, 2021

IPPR warns that 1.3 million people in UK are at risk of destitution due to no recourse to public funds condition

New report calls for suspension of condition while Covid-19 remains a risk, and for longer term reforms including allowing people with NRPF to access local welfare assistance schemes

2 September, 2021 Open access

Public sees claimants that are new to the benefits system during Covid-19 as ‘more deserving’ and ‘less blameworthy’ than those who claimed pre-pandemic

New research also finds that people's attitudes to claimants, while softening during the first and second waves of the pandemic, rebounded to almost pre-pandemic levels following the lockdowns

2 September, 2021

Public Law Project publishes open letter from the DWP explaining process for claimants to request that hardship payments are not recovered

Letter follows Department's concession, following successful judicial review challenge, that it has discretion to waive recovery in all cases

2 September, 2021 Open access

Government risks causing ‘immense, immediate and avoidable hardship’ if it goes ahead with planned £20-a-week cut to universal credit and working tax credit

Urging Prime Minister to 'make the right decision', open letter from 100 organisations says government's response will reveal the true depth of its commitment to improving the lives of families on lowest incomes

1 September, 2021 Open access

Work and Pensions Secretary rejects call from chairs of cross-party committees in all four UK Parliaments to extend universal credit and tax credit ‘uplift’ beyond September 2021

'Dismissive response' suggests that government is still in denial about impact of cut, says UK Work and Pensions Committee Chair

1 September, 2021

Total value of housing benefit overpayments identified, recovered or written off all decreased in 2020/2021

New DWP statistics also show that value of all outstanding overpayments continues a decreasing trend but still exceeds £1.8 billion

31 August, 2021 Open access

Devolved governments call on Work and Pensions Secretary not to end universal credit and tax credit £20 uplift and instead make it permanent

Letter expressing concern at the biggest overnight reduction to a basic rate of social security since the modern welfare state began also asks for suspension of minimum income floor to be extended for a further 12 months

31 August, 2021

DWP confirms that work capability assessment contract with Maximus has been extended by two years to 31 July 2023

Continuation of contract will 'secure service continuity and stability' while allowing transfer of caseload and services into unified assessment service trial 'if required'

31 August, 2021

Tribunal erred in law in not treating evidence supplied by claimant after appeal hearing as application to set aside

KH (deceased) by AMH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (II)
[2021] UKUT 189 (AAC)
CI/365/2020

27 August, 2021

DWP confirms that it has automated the process for identifying claimants who receive two monthly wage payments in one universal credit assessment period

New edition of Touchbase also confirms that, where double payment identified, DWP staff will be able to move second payment to next assessment period to ensure that benefit payments don't fluctuate