23 November, 2020 Open access
23 November, 2020
TD v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 283 (AAC)
CSPIP/373/2019 & CSPIP/374/2019
20 November, 2020 Open access
Social Security Secretary urges UK Government to use next week’s Spending Review to confirm continuation of £20 benefit uplift and relaxation of minimum income floor rules into new financial year
19 November, 2020
New statutory instrument
19 November, 2020 Open access
Shadow Chancellor also urges an urgent assessment of financial barriers to self-isolation including the levels of statutory sick pay
19 November, 2020 Open access
New edition of LA Welfare Direct also advises that MHCLG will issue guidance on the impact of grants on council tax reduction ‘in due course’
19 November, 2020
18 November, 2020
New Public Accounts Committee report on DWP's Accounts for 2019/2020 also finds that Department's system of fixing its own errors 'can penalise the least secure with yet more debt and even lower incomes'
18 November, 2020 Open access
DWP and Department for Communities must establish maximum time periods during which face-to-face assessments and decisions will take place, says Committee
18 November, 2020
Correspondence requests Secretary of State to appear before Committee to review multiple areas of crossover between UK and Scottish Government responsibilities
18 November, 2020 Open access
Cabinet Secretary also confirms that existing DLA and PIP claimants will begin to transfer to new benefits as soon as they are rolled out nationally
17 November, 2020
While disclosure was considered 'necessary' to fulfil a ‘legitimate interest’, disclosing more detailed information would ‘tip the balance’ of transparency and have an 'unjustified detrimental impact on privacy rights of the data subject'
17 November, 2020 Open access
Payable via the Discretionary Support scheme, the grant will use higher daily rates of benefit to calculate award
17 November, 2020
'Our existing legislation already protects children's rights', says Minister
17 November, 2020
New report also recommends improvements to the PIP eligibility criteria and reassessment process as a way to address inequalities of access to Motability
17 November, 2020 Open access
Pre-budget scrutiny report also calls on Scottish Government to look at whether roll-out of Scottish Child Payment for older children could be speeded up
16 November, 2020
New DWP guidance
16 November, 2020 Open access
Maximising take-up is a 'moral duty', say Scottish Social Security Secretary and Ministers in Wales and Northern Ireland
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