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12 April, 2021

Where tribunal is considering making a less favourable decision it must give sufficient notice to claimant to enable them to prepare their case

MS v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (DLA and PIP)
[2021] UKUT 41 (AAC)
CPIP/932/2020, CPIP/934/2020, CDLA/1079/2020 & CDLA/1080/2019

12 April, 2021

DWP updates Benefit Overpayment Recovery Guide to reflect increase in universal credit advances recovery period to 24 months

Update also reflects reduction in maximum rate of recovery by deductions from benefit to 25 per cent of universal credit standard allowance

12 April, 2021

Legal effect of Jobseeker’s (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013 Remedial Order was to compel Secretary of State to supersede tribunal’s decision

MB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (JSA)
[2021] UKUT 69 (AAC)
CJSA/2077/2013

12 April, 2021

Homeless Link highlights that a ‘collective voice’ is building to promote welfare benefit changes to support homeless people

New report highlights challenges from universal credit, local housing allowance and benefit cap policies to people facing homelessness

9 April, 2021 Open access

Government issues Treasury Direction setting out legal framework for the £500 one-off Covid-19 support payment for working tax credit claimants

Made under provisions in the Coronavirus Act 2020, the new Direction requires HMRC to be responsible for assessing eligibility and making payments

9 April, 2021

Termination of joint tax credits award when spouse died did not constitute unlawful discrimination against widower who was not eligible for universal credit due to capital

RJ v. Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs; Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v. RJ
[2021] UKUT 40 (AAC)
CTC/2649/2019 & CTC/392/2020

9 April, 2021

Treatment of late paid earnings in calculation of universal credit when real time information reported on time / return of deposit paid by employee on uniform is not earnings

NM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2021] UKUT 46 (AAC)
CUC/761/2019

9 April, 2021 Open access

Legal Services Consumer Panel warns that advice deserts are likely to become more common as a result of Covid-19

Impact of funding cuts that have taken place over recent years has become even more obvious in this time of increased stress and unemployment

8 April, 2021

Whether new evidence about the distance a claimant covered when walking is admissible in an Upper Tribunal appeal in circumstances where a First-tier Tribunal incorrectly assessed that distance

PR v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2021] UKUT 35 (AAC)
CPIP/2401/2019

8 April, 2021

Recruitment of extra Youth Employability Coaches will ‘help thousands of young people benefit from six-month intensive employment support’, says DWP

New roles are vital in helping young people onto first rung of the jobs ladder, Minister adds

8 April, 2021 Open access

Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted ‘flawed rationale’ behind two-child limit

New report from CPAG highlights how policy has removed safety net that social security should provide when crisis hits

7 April, 2021

Use of template pre-action protocol letters ‘invites an abuse’ of judicial review process

MoJ summary of government responses to Independent Review of Administrative Law reports view that increasing use of pro-forma letters suggests either 'deep-rooted misunderstanding’ of process or 'intention to use them inappropriately'

7 April, 2021

DWP launches recruitment drive to place more than 300 extra Disability Employment Advisers in jobcentres by May 2021

Exercise will build on record levels of disability employment by protecting, supporting and creating jobs for disabled people, says Minister

7 April, 2021 Open access

HMRC provides further information in relation to £500 one-off payment to working households in receipt of tax credits

Update confirms that there is no need to apply for the payment which should be received into bank accounts by 23 April 2021

6 April, 2021 Open access

PCS expresses ‘serious concern’ at DWP’s decision to increase face-to-face activity in jobcentres from 12 April 2021

However, Union advises that it has received assurances from Department that work coaches will remain 'empowered' to decide the most appropriate channel to communicate with their claimants

6 April, 2021 Open access

Almost £25 million included in Northern Ireland Executive’s 2021/2022 Budget to support ‘Benefit Delivery Response’ to Covid-19

Minister confirms that funding for scheme, which will provide financial assistance to vulnerable individuals, is on top of more than £40 million to continue welfare mitigations

1 April, 2021

Eligibility criteria for school age element of Scottish best start grant are not incompatible with European Convention on Human Rights

DR, per West Lothian Council Advice Shop v (First) Social Security Scotland (Second) Lord Advocate
[2021] UT 16
UTS/AS/20/0015

1 April, 2021

DWP to introduce new Train and Progress initiative which will allow universal credit claimants to take part in up to 12 weeks full-time training

Department advises that option will be available to those in the intensive work search group

30 March, 2021 Open access

Total number of households subject to the benefit cap has more than doubled during Covid-19 outbreak

New DWP statistics show that 180,000 households were capped as at November 2020 compared to 89,000 prior to the pandemic taking hold in March 2020

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