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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.

1 December, 2016

DWP Minister Lord Freud announces retirement from ministerial role

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1 December, 2016

'Cut first, think later' attitude of Concentrix plunged claimants into 'humiliating hardship and debt', say MPs

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1 December, 2016

Statutory guidance on ending tenancies for those disqualified from renting due to immigration status

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1 December, 2016

Government considering plans to allow PIP claimants to keep Motability vehicles until appeal outcomes are known

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1 December, 2016

Scottish Government consults on extending FOI legislation to Registered Social Landlords

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1 December, 2016

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry into self-employment and the ‘gig economy’

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1 December, 2016

Activity 2 - taking nutrition - refers to the physical and mental actions of eating and drinking and not to the quality of nutrition

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30 November, 2016

Robert (as trustee in bankruptcy) v Woodall

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30 November, 2016

Government launches Taylor review of modern employment practices

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30 November, 2016

FCA calls for views on high-cost credit

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30 November, 2016

DWP is not doing enough to find out how sanctions affect benefit claimants, says National Audit Office

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30 November, 2016

Government will ‘aim’ to protect existing ESA claimants who try out work and return to ESA

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30 November, 2016

Tribunal duties in ESA appeals where copies of previous decisions and medical reports not provided

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30 November, 2016

Tribunal failed to properly consider effects of work-related activity on claimant’s mental health / caution required when changing an appeal hearing time on the day

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30 November, 2016

Ability to ‘mobilise’ in ESA prescribed activity 1 must not take account of use of a powered wheelchair

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29 November, 2016

Accountant in Bankruptcy v Mahmood

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29 November, 2016

Sands (as trustee in bankruptcy) v Layne & Anor

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29 November, 2016

Local authorities in Scotland awarded more than 86,000 DHPs between April and September 2016

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29 November, 2016

Whether sums of money lent for a specific purpose count as capital

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