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11 November, 2014

Changes to right to reside for EEA jobseekers

New DWP guidance on rules limiting entitlement to jobseeker's allowance to 91 days from 10 November 2014

10 November, 2014

Scottish Ministers revoke limit on DHP spending in Scotland from 1 April 2014

New statutory instrument

10 November, 2014

Habitual residence and exemption from the three month residence requirement in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

10 November, 2014

New Scottish Government research finds that stronger conditionality is unlikely to get more people into work

Report on impact of welfare reforms in Scotland also highlights importance of advice in helping people navigate changes to benefit system

7 November, 2014

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry into benefit sanctions policy

Inquiry to consider aspects of sanction policy which were outside the remit of the Oakley review

7 November, 2014

Government plans to bar EU migrants from claiming universal credit

Guardian also reports that since 2000 migrants are 43 per cent less likely to get state benefits

7 November, 2014

Consultation launched on the Welsh government’s revised Child Poverty Strategy

Strategy aims to eradicate child poverty by 2020 while 'recognising the challenge given the UK government's welfare reform and budget cuts'

7 November, 2014

Statutory adoption pay for prospective adopters and surrogate parents

New statutory instrument

7 November, 2014

Amended definition of ‘blind’ for the purposes of income-related benefits in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

7 November, 2014

Miscellaneous amendments to child benefit and tax credit regulations

New statutory instrument

6 November, 2014

Power to set limit on total DHP expenditure in Scotland transferred to Scottish Ministers

New statutory instrument

6 November, 2014

DWP has failed to incentivise Work Programme providers to support ESA claimants into work, says Public Accounts Committee

New report also highlights concerns about sanctions referrals from providers and problems with contracts leading to inappropriate bonus payments

6 November, 2014

Twice as much benefit overpaid due to error than lost due to fraud

New figures from the DWP highlight that housing benefit fraud and error is the highest out of all benefits

6 November, 2014

61 per cent of households affected by the benefit cap constitute a single parent with dependent children

New figures from the DWP also show that 20 per cent of households are capped by more than £100 per week

5 November, 2014

Real cost of living increasing more for low-income households

New report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggests uprating benefits according to group-specific inflation rates

5 November, 2014

Government publishes review of local welfare provision

Findings of review include that, whilst 80 per cent of local authorities spent less than allocated amount in 2013/2014, more than half said they would spend full allocation in 2014/2015

5 November, 2014

Child Maintenance Service to share information with credit reference agencies from March 2015

DWP says that it expects new measure to have deterrent effect on non-resident parents who may otherwise choose to evade maintenance payments

4 November, 2014

Work and Pensions Secretary confirms that he has changed habitual residence test to exempt those fleeing Ebola

However, Mr Duncan Smith also confirms that he is in discussion with other EU Ministers about restricting benefits for EU migrants in first three years of residence

4 November, 2014

Amendments to universal credit rules for areas where DWP is to test new ‘Digital Service’

New statutory instrument introduces changes, including in relation to childcare costs and assessment periods, that do not apply in postcode areas where benefit is already in force