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22 January, 2021 Open access

Government provides update on cases where PIP claimants will not have had their award extended as a result of Covid-19

Specified cases 'are not included in Covid-19 easements and will not be extended as part of this exercise', says DWP Minister

22 January, 2021

DWP announces first Local Partnership Agreements with HM Prison and Probation Service to support offenders to prepare for release from prison

New collaborative working commitment runs alongside the national rollout of telephone support for prisoners making online universal credit claims and advances

22 January, 2021

Joint Committee on Human Rights launches call for evidence on government’s independent review of the Human Rights Act

Committee seeks views on questions including whether Act has increased ability of individuals to enforce their human rights, and whether correct balance has been struck in relationship between domestic courts and the ECHR

22 January, 2021

Ensuring that EEA nationals can continue to be awarded funeral expenses payment where funeral is taking place in the UK

New statutory instrument

21 January, 2021 Open access

DWP confirms plan to deploy 450 more staff to its Debt Management service telephone line to ensure target of answering 90 per cent of calls is met

However, Permanent Secretary reports that PIP, attendance allowance and state pension telephony services are also currently providing a service level 'below the expected standards'

21 January, 2021 Open access

Scottish Government urged to commit to work toward a Minimum Income Guarantee for all

Covid-19 has brutally exposed the inequalities that still blight the lives of too many, says Social Renewal Advisory Board

21 January, 2021 Open access

DWP has been ‘far too slow’ to provide its staff with the kit needed to work from home during the Covid-19 pandemic

Public and Commercial Services Union says that staff whose only reason for not working from home is the lack of available kit or software should be sent home on paid special leave

21 January, 2021 Open access

Covid crisis is creating a ‘child poverty timebomb’, warns Children’s Commissioner

Politicians must take child poverty out of the ‘too difficult box’ and come up with a big, bold, long-term plan to fix it, Commissioner urges

21 January, 2021 Open access

DWP has ‘no plans’ to extend time limit for payment of contributory ESA where claimants have reached 365-day limit but not had work capability assessment

However, Minister confirms that there is a ring-fenced operational team working on progressing those claims in absence of face-to-face assessments

20 January, 2021

Northern Ireland Communities Minister instructs Department to look at in-house PIP assessment model, as recommended in second independent review of PIP assessment process

However, in her response to a question on the likely extension of Capita's assessment contract for two years, Minister says move away from external provider cannot happen right away

20 January, 2021

Communities Minister confirms Northern Ireland Executive’s commitment to prioritise existing welfare reform mitigations in 2021/2022

Responding to questions in the Assembly yesterday, Deirdre Hargey also confirms that her Department is looking at what further mitigations and protections it can bring in

19 January, 2021 Open access

Jobcentres ‘should be closed now’, says Public and Commercial Services Union

Union highlights that DWP's insistance on all jobcentres remaining open goes against government advice to work from home

19 January, 2021

LITRG repeats its call for government to raise threshold for High Income Child Benefit Charge

If threshold remains at £50,000, then basic-rate taxpayers will be affected by charge for the first time in 2021/2022

18 January, 2021 Open access

Commons votes in favour of Opposition Day Debate motion calling on the government to maintain the £20 'uplift' to universal credit and working tax credit

With the government choosing to abstain, House votes in favour of non-binding motion by 278 votes to zero

18 January, 2021 Open access

Government decision on whether to keep the universal credit ‘uplift’ could determine the inequality story of the whole parliament

Living standards hit from the Covid-19 crisis is ahead, rather than behind us, says the Resolution Foundation

15 January, 2021

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry to examine what steps government could take to reduce child poverty

First stage of inquiry to focus on best way to measure child poverty, and how effectively the DWP works with other government departments and local authorities

15 January, 2021

Civil legal aid system is ‘running on an empty tank’ and is being kept going by nothing more than the goodwill of the legal profession

Bar Council says that the current arrangements in England and Wales are not a sustainable way to guarantee the future of such an essential service for the public

15 January, 2021

Extending HMRC’s powers to review finalised tax credit awards to enable further backdating of disability element awards

New statutory instrument brings into effect policy intent that claimants should receive backdated disability elements even when tax credit awards have ceased or cross several tax years

14 January, 2021 Open access

Labour Party to force Commons vote demanding that the government scraps planned cut to universal credit and working tax credit

Opposition Day debate motion calls for the government to give certainty to the six million families who are set to lose out on an extra £1,000 a year