Welfare rights news

12 June, 2023

Extension of deadline for payment of voluntary national insurance contributions to increase new state pension entitlement

DWP advises that people now have until 5 April 2025 to fill in gaps in their national insurance record from April 2006

12 June, 2023

DWP to launch an ‘Invitation to Claim’ initiative this summer to encourage take-up of pension credit

Trial will see potentially eligible households who receive housing benefit across 10 local authorities in Britain being sent letters encouraging them to apply for the benefit

12 June, 2023

More than 60 per cent of social security and child support appeals cleared at a hearing in 2022/2023 were decided in favour of the claimant

New MoJ statistics also show that the majority of appeal receipts and disposals related to personal independence payment

9 June, 2023

Learning and Work Institute and Carers Trust call for entitlement to carer’s allowance to be extended to young adult carers in full-time education

New joint briefing urges UK Government to follow Scottish Government in exempting young adult carers from the ‘21 hour’ rule

9 June, 2023

More than £80 million in council tax debt was registered against universal credit households in year ending February 2023

Figures supplied by DWP Minister also show that more than £55 million in water arrears was registered in same period

8 June, 2023

DWP publishes first set of quarterly universal credit WCA statistics following criticism from both the Work and Pensions Committee and Office for Statistics Regulation for having failed to do so

Figures show 1.7 million people claiming universal credit on health grounds, including 1.1 million assessed as having limited capability for work and work-related activity

8 June, 2023

Less than a fifth of the almost half a million people who have started on the Restart scheme have achieved sustained employment of six months or more

First statistics publication for the programme also show that just a quarter of participants who have had the full 12 months of support from scheme providers have achieved a job outcome

8 June, 2023

DWP issues guidance on changes to Sure Start maternity grant entitlement conditions from June 2023

New ADM Memo includes guidance on changes that help those fleeing from Afghanistan and Ukraine to establish entitlement

8 June, 2023

Work coaches expected to save two minutes per referral as a result of automation of ‘failure to attend’ process

Work and Pensions Minister confirms that new process was rolled out last month, and that reports from test sites 'have been very positive'

8 June, 2023

Increase in the maximum amounts for childcare support in universal credit in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

8 June, 2023

Miscellaneous amendments to universal credit and other social security regulations in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

7 June, 2023

Disability Rights UK lodges formal complaint about ‘appalling’ story in Daily Telegraph targeting sick and disabled people as being unworthy of state support

In addition, DRUK asks IPSO to consider if its guidance to the press in relation to disablist narratives and language is sufficiently robust

6 June, 2023

‘Resets’ are a natural part of major long-term projects and can help them to succeed, says universal credit Senior Responsible Owner

However, Neil Couling tells Public Accounts Committee that the universal credit programme's reset was a traumatic event for staff who saw it as a failure

6 June, 2023

DWP confirms that it has no plans to publish details of algorithms used in trials to detect fraud in claims for universal credit advances

Information about the nature and operation of algorithms could be used to 'defraud the benefit system and impact the public purse', says Minister

5 June, 2023

Proposed universal basic income ‘micro pilot’ in England would provide £1,600 monthly payments to 30 participants in Jarrow and East Finchley

Community-led projects seeking funding to trial the payments over a two-year period before evaluating the impact on those taking part

5 June, 2023

Social Security Scotland confirms that not all those eligible for best start grant school age payment will receive automatic awards

While majority of eligible families will receive payments automatically from 1 June 2023, some will need to make applications before the payment window closes on 29 February 2024

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Extension of deadline for payment of voluntary national insurance contributions to increase new state pension entitlement

DWP advises that people now have until 5 April 2025 to fill in gaps in their national insurance record from April 2006

DWP to launch an ‘Invitation to Claim’ initiative this summer to encourage take-up of pension credit

More than 60 per cent of social security and child support appeals cleared at a hearing in 2022/2023 were decided in favour of the claimant

Learning and Work Institute and Carers Trust call for entitlement to carer’s allowance to be extended to young adult carers in full-time education

More than £80 million in council tax debt was registered against universal credit households in year ending February 2023

DWP publishes first set of quarterly universal credit WCA statistics following criticism from both the Work and Pensions Committee and Office for Statistics Regulation for having failed to do so

Less than a fifth of the almost half a million people who have started on the Restart scheme have achieved sustained employment of six months or more

First statistics publication for the programme also show that just a quarter of participants who have had the full 12 months of support from scheme providers have achieved a job outcome

DWP issues guidance on changes to Sure Start maternity grant entitlement conditions from June 2023

Work coaches expected to save two minutes per referral as a result of automation of ‘failure to attend’ process

Increase in the maximum amounts for childcare support in universal credit in Northern Ireland

Miscellaneous amendments to universal credit and other social security regulations in Northern Ireland

Disability Rights UK lodges formal complaint about ‘appalling’ story in Daily Telegraph targeting sick and disabled people as being unworthy of state support

‘Resets’ are a natural part of major long-term projects and can help them to succeed, says universal credit Senior Responsible Owner

DWP confirms that it has no plans to publish details of algorithms used in trials to detect fraud in claims for universal credit advances

Proposed universal basic income ‘micro pilot’ in England would provide £1,600 monthly payments to 30 participants in Jarrow and East Finchley

Scottish Government sets out three year plan to tackle food insecurity and remove need for food banks in longer term

Third sector organisations in Scotland to be paid a fee for providing information to support disability benefit claims

New research finds no evidence that two-child policy increases employment

Social Security Scotland confirms that not all those eligible for best start grant school age payment will receive automatic awards