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24 March, 2022

Government announces permanent extension of eligibility for free school meals to children from families with no recourse to public funds

Minister advises extension will start from 19 April 2022 and that guidance about checking and validating eligibility will be published shortly

24 March, 2022

Scottish Government commits to raising Scottish child payment from £20 to £25 by the end of 2022

Increase in payment included in new Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan which aims to reduce child poverty in Scotland to lowest level in almost 30 years

24 March, 2022

Change made to how often the Work and Pensions Secretary must review the level of the benefit cap

New Act provides for review every five years

24 March, 2022

Rate of overpayments in the universal credit Covid caseload was a ‘remarkable’ 25 per cent

Office for Budget Responsibility highlights that fraud and error rates were particularly high in self-employed claims and in cases related to capital rules

24 March, 2022

Government estimates that delayed PIP award reviews resulting from DWP operational measures to manage referrals to assessment providers will increase expenditure on awards by £85 million in the two years to April 2023

Policy costings published alongside the Spring Statement 2022 explain that the reason that delays cause increased expenditure is that the average change at award review is a reduction in the amount of award

24 March, 2022

Uprating of mesothelioma lump sum payments from April 2022 in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

23 March, 2022

Government announces extra £500 million for the discretionary Household Support Fund to ‘support the most vulnerable families with their essentials’

Presenting the Spring Statement, Chancellor also advises that national insurance thresholds will rise to £12,570 to align with the income tax personal allowance

23 March, 2022

Welsh Government publishes research into the experiences and perceptions of people who received a Covid-19 Self-Isolation Support Payment

Key findings include that despite low awareness about the scheme in Wales, the majority of recipients felt that the payment enabled them to self-isolate and prevented them from falling into debt

23 March, 2022

More than 57,000 unpaid carers in Wales to receive a £500 one-off payment

Welsh Government says that payment will be made to those who are in receipt of carer's allowance on 31 March 2022

23 March, 2022 Open access

Exemption from habitual residence and past presence tests for specified benefits for people arriving in Scotland from Ukraine

New statutory instrument

23 March, 2022

Enabling people in Northern Ireland to continue to be able to claim SSP where absence from work is related to Covid-19

New statutory rule

23 March, 2022

Miscellaneous amendments in relation to the further rollout of universal credit to replace legacy benefits in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

22 March, 2022 Open access

Amendment of child benefit residence conditions and tax credit income rules to support people arriving in the UK from Ukraine and their sponsors

New statutory instrument

22 March, 2022

Maternity Action calls on Work and Pensions Secretary to carry out urgent assessment of reasons for fall of more than 40 per cent in maternity allowance awards since 2015/2016

New research estimates that treatment as unearned income for universal credit purposes has led to 'disappearance' of up to 85,000 maternity allowance awards worth £500 million

22 March, 2022

Number of universal credit households subject to the benefit cap fell by almost a third between September and October 2021

DWP highlights that decrease coincides with the withdrawal of the temporary £20 uplift from 6 October 2021

22 March, 2022

More than three-quarters of PIP assessments continue to be carried out over the telephone, according to latest DWP figures

Minister also confirms that proportion of assessments carried out face-to-face remained at less than five per cent in the three months to January 2022

22 March, 2022

Social security benefits uprating 2022/2023

New statutory instruments

22 March, 2022

Miscellaneous amendments consequential to the introduction of adult disability payment in Scotland

New statutory instrument