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29 June, 2020 Open access

Wages element of pensions triple lock will lead to ‘outsized’ growth of state pension over next two years, Resolution Foundation warns

New report says this year's slump in wage growth due to coronavirus, and expected significant increase next year, will lead to increase at three times faster than prices at annual additional cost of £3bn

29 June, 2020 Open access

Reopening jobcentres to the public could create a ‘perfect storm’, warns Public and Commercial Services Union

Any move to reinstate the jobcentre network beyond its emergency coronavirus provision now is premature while the threat from the virus remains, says Union

29 June, 2020

Labour Party seeks views to help shape its commitment to developing a ‘complete replacement’ for universal credit

Work, pensions and equality commission to consider whether a modern social security system should continue to be based on a single benefit covering both in-work and out-of-work support

26 June, 2020 Open access

Government issues further ‘Treasury Direction’ in relation to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

Made under provisions in the Coronavirus Act 2020, new Direction reflects changes announced by the Chancellor on 12 May 2020

26 June, 2020 Open access

Ministry of Justice confirms that video hearings are being made available across all Social Security and Child Support Tribunal regions

Minister advises that judges will determine if cases are suitable for video hearings, taking account of issues including the benefit under appeal and any difficulty the claimant has in using the technology

26 June, 2020 Open access

Citizens Advice research finds that almost 1.4 million people in UK are subject to ‘no recourse to public funds’ condition

Charity calls for condition to be lifted during coronavirus pandemic to avoid migrants facing 'impossible choices' concerning their health and that of their families

26 June, 2020

Restricting tribunal’s consideration to ‘circumstances obtaining at time of decision under appeal’ does not limit consideration to evidence that was before the first instance decision maker

KK v Liverpool City Council (HB)
[2020] UKUT 80 (AAC)
CH/1766/2019

25 June, 2020

Government confirms it will not be challenging Court of Appeal judgment which found Secretary of State acted irrationally by failing to adapt earned income assessment rules in universal credit

Responding to an urgent question in the House of Commons today, Minister says Department is 'carefully considering possible solutions'

25 June, 2020 Open access

Incomes at the 10th percentile failed to increase in the five years to 2018/2019 as falls in benefit and tax credit income offset growth in employment incomes, says IFS

Even taking into account temporary benefit increases due to COVID-19, out-of-work households are 10 per cent poorer than they would have been without cuts applied since 2011

25 June, 2020

Whether First-tier Tribunal’s enforcement reference to Upper Tribunal, relating to Secretary of State’s failure to comply with direction to provide summary of ESA adjudication history, was valid

RG v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Enforcement Reference)
[2020] UKUT 79 (AAC)
ENF/1494/2019

25 June, 2020 Open access

Social Care Staff Support Fund launched in Scotland to provide financial support to care workers facing income losses as a result of coronavirus

New statutory instrument includes eligibility conditions for payments from new Fund, including that workers must have lost income as a result of being ill with COVID-19 or while self-isolating

25 June, 2020 Open access

Minister confirms that benefit reviews and reassessments remain suspended while the government reviews what activity it can reintroduce in line with the latest public health advice

As temporary COVID-19 suspensions come to an end, Ministers had only previously said that new arrangements will be communicated 'as soon as possible'

24 June, 2020

Ensuring that extra-statutory payments, including compensation for people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire, are disregarded from means-tested benefits

New statutory instruments

24 June, 2020

After benefits and taxes, disposable income of the richest fifth of people in the UK still more than five times larger than the income of the poorest fifth

ONS releases new figures on the effects of taxes and benefits on UK household income for the financial year ending 2019

24 June, 2020

Claimant whose inability to use public transport arose entirely from physical health problems was not entitled to points under mobility descriptor 1(d)

HO'H v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 135 (AAC)
CPIP/302/2019

24 June, 2020

Almost 80 per cent of council tax reduction recipients in Scotland received a full reduction in March 2020

Scottish Government annual statistics also show that just over half of recipients were on passporting benefits

23 June, 2020 Open access

Government says that people who are shielding as a result of COVID-19 will not be entitled to SSP on that basis from 1 August 2020

New advisory guidance says that shielding programme will be 'paused' on 31 July, and that people who are shielding can return to work where business is ‘COVID-safe'

23 June, 2020

Prime Minister made unsubstantiated claims to Commons about level of child poverty, says Children’s Commissioner

Rebuttals to question from Leader of Opposition at Prime Minister's Questions are 'not borne out by the government's own figures'

23 June, 2020 Open access

Number of new universal credit claims during week to 16 June 2020 still almost 20 per cent higher than during first week of March

New DWP statistics also highlight that more than one million advance payments have been awarded on new claims since the start of lockdown

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