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Daily news and case law updates across five areas of social welfare law: welfare benefits, debt, housing, employment and community care. Subscribe for updates.

28 March, 2017

Commode can be an aid to manage incontinence, and impaired mobility may be relevant to issue of whether a claimant needs to use one

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28 March, 2017

Need for DWP and tribunals to show grounds for superseding a PIP award made by an earlier First-tier Tribunal

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28 March, 2017

Right to reside on basis of self-sufficiency – requirement for individual assessment in light of EC case law

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28 March, 2017

Women and Equalities Committee invites submissions for its Older People and Employment inquiry

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28 March, 2017

47 per cent of homelessness accommodation projects have experienced reduced funding

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27 March, 2017

Seven-day universal credit waiting period should be abolished, says Lords Committee

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27 March, 2017

Universal credit housing costs element and amended bedroom tax rules

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27 March, 2017

Lords Select Committee calls on government to ‘lead from the top’ to tackle financial exclusion

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27 March, 2017

Scottish Welfare Fund to be extended on an interim basis in response to cuts to housing support for 18 to 21 year-olds

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27 March, 2017

Welsh Government announces additional £20m for social care in 2017/2018

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27 March, 2017

National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates from April 2017

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27 March, 2017

Turley v London Borough of Wandsworth & Anor

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27 March, 2017

Employment case law round up

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24 March, 2017

15 per cent of universal credit claimants return to unemployment within 12 weeks of joining the in-work progression trial

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24 March, 2017

Benefit uprating and social security contribution rates 2017/2018

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24 March, 2017

Out of area temporary accommodation placements increase by 17 per cent

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24 March, 2017

Transfer of welfare powers to the Scottish Parliament

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