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5 November, 2019

Government rejects Work and Pensions Committee’s key recommendations to strengthen welfare safety net

DWP response to Committee's thematic inquiry disagrees with its calls for more generous benefit uprating and benefit cap rates, local housing allowance rates and universal credit deductions policy

5 November, 2019

Review of housing benefit claimants’ self-employed earnings leads to annual saving of £63 million

DWP reports on review of cases where reported self-employed earnings had not changed over period of 12 months

5 November, 2019

Select Committee expresses ‘disappointment’ at government’s failure to adequately respond to its report on carer’s allowance overpayments

Government's response gives little hope that the DWP has even understood what the problems are, let alone that it might do anything to end the misery it continues to inflict, says Committee Chair

5 November, 2019

Failure to consider impact of court reforms on vulnerable users risks undermining public confidence in justice system, say MPs

Public Acounts Committee also expresses concern that, although HMCTS has extended reform timetable to seven years, it is still struggling to deliver all it promised

5 November, 2019

Social Security Advisory Committee consults on whether Motability scheme is best way to support mobility needs of disabled people

Consultation launched in light of fact that two-thirds of eligible disabled people are not accessing the scheme

5 November, 2019

Government announces increase in the maximum amount for additional expenses within the funeral expenses payment from Spring 2020

Payment, which covers expenses such as a coffin, flowers and funeral directors' fees, will rise from £700 to £1,000

5 November, 2019

Average weekly income of people using food banks is only £50 after paying rent

Hunger in the UK isn’t about food, says Trussell Trust, it’s about people not having enough money

5 November, 2019

69 per cent of single parent households subject to the benefit cap in Northern Ireland have at least one child under the age of five

New Department for Communities statistics also show that 85 per cent of capped households are single parents

4 November, 2019

Government’s justification for two-child limit ‘does not stand up to scrutiny’ and policy should be reversed

Policy has unintended consequences that 'no government should be willing to accept', says Work and Pensions Select Committee

4 November, 2019

Social Security benefit and pension up-rating for 2020/2021 confirmed

Work and Pensions Secretary announces 1.7 per cent rise in working age benefits and 3.9 per cent increase to state pensions

4 November, 2019

Tax credits, child benefit and guardian’s allowance up-rating 2020/2021

Chief Secretary to the Treasury announces that most tax credits and thresholds will increase by 1.7 per cent

4 November, 2019

President of Appeal Tribunals urges Department for Communities to consider seeking GP reports at early stages of all disability benefit appeals

Annual report on decision making also calls for presenting officers to review medical reports prior to hearings

4 November, 2019

Commencement of Scotland’s devolved maternity, funeral and heating expenses payments

New statutory instrument amends date that payment provisions come into force

4 November, 2019

Dupuytren’s contracture added to list of prescribed diseases for which industrial injuries disablement benefit is payable

New DWP guidance

1 November, 2019

More than £100 million paid out as universal credit advance payments during May 2019

Minister confirms that Department expects to see this figure increase as caseload grows

1 November, 2019

DWP announces new £10 million fund to help vulnerable people claim universal credit

Funding will be available to charities and other support organisations from April 2020

1 November, 2019

Proposed court reform could compromise justice for vulnerable people particularly those that are unrepresented, MPs warn

Select Committee recommends that non-digital processes must be available including paper forms and a freephone service

1 November, 2019

Ignoring arrears of maternity allowance and armed forces independence payment in calculation of capital

New DWP guidance

1 November, 2019

Risk-based verification systems used by local authorities to help identify fraudulent benefit claims may be discriminatory, says the Legal Education Foundation

Legal opinion highlights that there is no publicly available information which explains how algorithms are being deployed and on what basis