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20 February, 2019

Exclusion of mixed-age couples from entitlement to pension credit and pension age housing benefit

New DWP guidance confirms that pension credit claims made on or before 13 August 2019 can be backdated to before the rule change applies

20 February, 2019

Abolition of child tax credit and working tax credit from 1 February 2019

New DWP guidance

20 February, 2019

DWP issues guidance on civil certificates issued by other EU Member States

Decision makers instructed to accept certificates as evidence of a relevant event and not require a translation of the document from 16 February 2019

20 February, 2019

Housing benefit administration subsidy arrangements for local authorities in 2019/2020

New DWP guidance

19 February, 2019

14 per cent of households on universal credit in November 2018 were not receiving a payment

New DWP statistics advise that this may be for a 'number of reasons', one of which is that their earnings are too high

19 February, 2019

2.8 per cent of universal credit claimants who were subject to conditionality had benefit reduced due to a sanction

New DWP statistics also show that 0.02 per cent of JSA claimants and 0.03 per cent of ESA claimants had benefit reduced due to sanction

19 February, 2019

LGA highlights risk that councils' ability to identify people at risk of homelessness will be negatively impacted by universal credit roll-out

New report also expresses 'considerable concern' that future of funding for local welfare schemes and discretionary housing payments is in doubt

19 February, 2019

More than 50 per cent of universal credit claimants in the social rented sector fail to provide required details of tenancy

Landlord engagement letter advises that mismatches between information from tenant and their landlord is one of main reasons for delay in paying housing costs

18 February, 2019

DWP to run pilots to 'actively explain and promote' more frequent payments when people first claim universal credit

Trials, which will last over four weeks, to take place from Spring 2019

18 February, 2019

Coalition of charities calls for lift on benefit freeze and an end to five-week wait for universal credit

Writing to MPs, charities warn that urgent steps are needed to protect people and places in poverty from financial consequences of Brexit, including no-deal

18 February, 2019

Local authority's management of Housing Benefit Data Matching Process was not so deficient as to amount to an official error when considering recovery of overpayment

CH/1987/2017

15 February, 2019

DWP estimates that exclusion of mixed-age couples from entitlement to pension credit will save £220 million in 2021/2022

Written answer to parliament also confirms that 15,000 couples will be affected in 2019/2020, rising to 40,000 in 2021/2022

15 February, 2019

Pilot scheme testing universal credit in-work conditionality to be extended for further 12 months

New statutory instrument

14 February, 2019

Seven per cent of all universal credit claimants are having deductions at 40 per cent of their standard allowance

Minister for Employment adds that a further 5,000 claimants are having deductions exceeding the maximum 40 per cent rate

14 February, 2019

Almost a fifth of new universal credit claims are closed due to ‘non-compliance with the process’

Minister for Employment advises that this includes failure to sign a claimant commitment or to provide evidence to support a claim

14 February, 2019

All-Party Parliamentary Group launches inquiry into effects of the 2016 Welfare Reform and Work Act

Inquiry will focus on how children and disabled people have been affected since Act was introduced almost three years ago

14 February, 2019

Continuation of help with NHS costs following the introduction of integrated health and care services

New statutory instrument

14 February, 2019

Scottish Commission on Social Security is 'open for business' and one of first tasks is scrutiny of Young Carer Grant regulations

Commission Chair also says that work has started to develop a forward work plan, to set up operating methods and to establish a website

14 February, 2019

Judicial review is not an appropriate remedy in a case where statutory appeal is available to challenge refusal to make provisional CTC payments

[2019] EWHC 251 (Admin)