30 March, 2021 Open access
30 March, 2021
Holyrood Manifesto 2021 sets out five key principles needed to achieve social security system that 'prevents poverty, treats people with dignity and respect and supports everyone to flourish'
29 March, 2021 Open access
In addition, DWP issues new guidance for claimants and assessment providers covering measures such as social distancing requirements, sanitisation, PPE and face coverings
29 March, 2021
Proposing a minimum income guarantee that could be realised by 2030, IPPR Scotland sets out first steps the Scottish Government could take towards achieving a new welfare state 'built on the bedrock' of shared financial security
29 March, 2021
New statutory instrument
26 March, 2021
26 March, 2021
Determination is made by Secretary of State for Work and Pensions under the Universal Credit (Surpluses and Self-employed Losses) (Digital Service) Amendment Regulations 2015
26 March, 2021 Open access
Letter to Work and Pensions Secretary also asks for update on plans for universal credit managed migration in light of Harrogate pilot being paused until April 2022
26 March, 2021
Plan forms part of government's 'levelling up' agenda and will 'give us direct entry into the Northern Powerhouse’
26 March, 2021
New statutory instrument issued in Scotland
26 March, 2021
Critical that tenants are supported in understanding the importance of telling the DWP about any change in rent, says membership body for housing associations in England
26 March, 2021
Council finds that there is no consistent evidence of more than doubled risk of cancer, apart from mesothelioma which is already covered by scheme
26 March, 2021
Paper sets out three aims for the new benefit include maximising take-up, supporting carers to take up roles outside of caring, and recognising that carers have different needs
25 March, 2021 Open access
However, Council confirms it will recommend prescription if and when there is strong enough evidence that occupational exposures cause disabling disease on ‘balance of probabilities’
25 March, 2021
New status for those who enter the UK illegally will also not carry an automatic right to settle in the UK, and family reunion rights will be restricted
25 March, 2021
Public Accounts Committee says that there appears not to have been any tangible progress since the publication of the MoJ-commissioned Digital Justice Report in 2019
25 March, 2021
New poverty statistics also show that 8 per cent of households were food insecure in 2019/2020
25 March, 2021
Agreed actions include piloting new hardship fund to support people with 'no recourse to public funds'
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