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22 April, 2021

Government suffers defeat in the Lords on vote on recourse to public funds for victims of domestic abuse

Peers vote in favour of providing access to public funds for the duration of the pilot Support for Migrant Victims Scheme.

22 April, 2021

Miscellaneous amendments to tax credit and child benefit legislation

New statutory instrument

22 April, 2021 Open access

Further extension of period over which Covid-19-related easements to benefit rules in Northern Ireland remain in force

New statutory rule

22 April, 2021

Trussell Trust reports an alarming 128 per cent  rise in need for emergency food over the last five years

Government needs to commit to working to end the need for food banks as latest figures show that Trust provided more than 2.5 million emergency parcels in 2020/2021

21 April, 2021

DWP plans to complete review exercise to correct its failure to apply automatic state pension uplift to certain married people, widows and over-80s by the end of 2023

Pensions Minister updates Parliament advising that a further 360 staff are to be recruited in 2021 to speed up work to identify cases where arrears are owed

21 April, 2021

Public Law Project urges Office for Statistics Regulation to examine use of statistics in government’s ongoing judicial review reform

Letter to Director General for Regulation highlights 'incorrect and misleading' figures used by government and Independent Review of Administrative Law in relation to success of 'Cart' judicial reviews

20 April, 2021 Open access

Further extension of period over which Covid-19-related easements to benefit rules remain in force

New statutory intrument

20 April, 2021 Open access

Around half a million people entitled to universal credit at start of pandemic did not claim it

It's essential to make non-take-up visible, and to produce a clear strategy to try to tackle it, says new report

20 April, 2021

DWP acknowledges that some PIP claimants on fixed-term awards without a review date are now ‘falling out of payment’ before renewal decisions can be made

Renewal claims from affected claimants will be prioritised and dealt with as quickly as possible, says DWP Minister

20 April, 2021

Number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits increased by more than four per cent in the three months to February 2021

DWP's alternative claimant count now stands at 2.87 million

20 April, 2021

DWP confirms that more than 40,000 people are currently repaying carer’s allowance overpayments

However, Minister says that it is not intended that the recovery of an overpayment should cause any customer undue financial hardship

20 April, 2021

DWP’s ‘ambition’ is to restart its mental health learning for work coaches in 2021/2022

Training introduced in April 2018 was paused in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Minister advises

19 April, 2021 Open access

DWP adds new medical guidance on post-Covid Syndrome to staff guide on DLA for children

Updated guide advises that a 12-month award is appropriate for children with disablement solely caused by the illness

19 April, 2021

Local authorities to be responsible for instructing the DWP to stop deductions for council tax and/or council rent arrears from claimants in Breathing Space scheme

DWP also advises that deductions will not be automatically restarted at the end of Breathing Space moratorium period

19 April, 2021

Benefit uprating and social security contribution rates for 2021/2022

New DWP guidance

19 April, 2021

Payments to local authorities in respect of the Verify Earnings and Pension Alerts service 2021/2022

New DWP guidance

19 April, 2021

Housing benefit administration subsidy arrangements for local authorities in 2021/2022

New DWP guidance

19 April, 2021

Allocation of additional funding to local authorities to support the costs of implementing welfare reform changes in 2021/2022

New Housing Benefit Circular confirms details of more than £20 million being provided to meet 'New Burdens' incurred by councils

16 April, 2021

DWP provides copy of 2018 Infrastructure and Projects Authority Universal Credit Full Business Case Review

Delivery confidence rated as 'Amber/Green' on basis that, while Business Case was affordable and provided value for money, it appeared to rely on 'theory rather than empirical evidence' in some areas

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