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28 November, 2019

Department for Communities provides further details of proposed relaxation of Universal Credit Contingency Fund eligibility rules

Requirement to have claimed an advance payment before applying to the Fund will no longer apply from 1 January 2020

28 November, 2019

Importance of identifying ‘impaired function’ to properly apply the definition of ‘aid or appliance’

DA v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2019] UKUT 320 (AAC)
CPIP/623/2019

28 November, 2019

Referral of the draft disability assistance regulations to the Scottish Commission on Social Security

New statutory instrument

27 November, 2019

Social security commitments in the Scottish National Party Manifesto 2019

Party highlights the planned introduction of the Scottish Child Payment and urges the UK Government to follow its lead

27 November, 2019

Less than a quarter of universal credit claimants in Northern Ireland are working

New statistics from the Department for Communities show that, of these, almost half have some conditionality applied

26 November, 2019

Voters face ‘stark choice’ about social security system they want, says Resolution Foundation

New report highlights 'clear dividing line' between Conservatives and THE other two main parties

26 November, 2019

Scottish local authorities made almost 100,000 DHP awards in first half of 2019/2020

Total value of awards exceeded £59 million and averaged £592

26 November, 2019

Fresh JSA claim not required from A8 jobseeker when pre-May 2009 claim determined after date Worker Registration Scheme held to be no longer lawful

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v KK (JSA)
[2019] UKUT 313 (AAC)
CJSA/1933/2010

25 November, 2019

Labour Party announces details of proposed compensation package for women affected by state pension age equalisation

Payments of up to £31,000 will fulfil what the Shadow Chancellor describes as a ‘historic debt of honour’

25 November, 2019

Social security commitments in the Conservative Party Manifesto 2019

Party says it will 'do more to make sure that universal credit works for the most vulnerable'

22 November, 2019

Social security commitments in the Plaid Cymru 2019 election manifesto

Party promises to introduce new £35 a week payment for children in low income families

21 November, 2019

Social security commitments in the Labour Party 2019 election manifesto

New Department for Social Security will be there to help and support people, not 'punish and police' them

21 November, 2019

Reduction in maximum duration of higher level sanction period from 156 weeks to 26 weeks

New DWP guidance

20 November, 2019

Social security commitments in the Liberal Democrat Party 2019 election manifesto

Party commits to invest £6 billion per year in social security 'to make the benefits system work for people who need it'

20 November, 2019

Chartered Insititute of Housing calls on next government to restore LHA rates so that they cover rent in 30 per cent of properties

New report argues that lifting benefit freeze will not, in itself, prevent further homelessness

19 November, 2019

Social security commitments in the Green Party 2019 election manifesto

Party promises to scrap universal credit and replace current benefit system with a Universal Basic Income

19 November, 2019

Period over which a tribunal has jurisdiction in a PIP appeal where subsequent fresh claim has been decided / whether telephone claim is valid if 'all the information required to determine the claim' is not provided during call

GG v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2019] UKUT 318 (AAC)
CPIP/2948/2018

18 November, 2019

Universal credit is a ‘tightrope over poverty’ for too many rather than the social safety net that is needed, IPPR says

Institute for Public Policy Research calls for reform, including to the monthly assessment system, debt recovery policy and sanctions regime, which all appear 'designed to punish rather than support'