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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.

15 September, 2016

Universal basic income 'goes against every aspect' of the government’s approach to welfare

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15 September, 2016

HMRC no longer passing new error and fraud cases to Concentrix

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15 September, 2016

Introduction of lower benefit cap from 7 November 2016

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15 September, 2016

15 per cent of social fund debt recoveries were not used to fund payments in 2015/2016

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14 September, 2016

HMRC announces that its tax credit contract with Concentrix will not be renewed on its expiry in 2017

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14 September, 2016

22 per cent of normal rules PIP claimants receive enhanced rates of daily living and mobility components

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14 September, 2016

Prevalence of depressive symptoms increases in those affected by the local housing allowance

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14 September, 2016

StepChange Debt Charity calls for auto-enrolment into Help to Save accounts

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13 September, 2016

Law Commission calls for reform of logbook loans

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13 September, 2016

Delayed introduction of bedroom tax for social sector claimants in Northern Ireland

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13 September, 2016

Changes to weather stations and postcode districts for social fund cold weather payments purposes

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12 September, 2016

Impact on housing benefit of exchanging annuity income for a cash lump sum

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12 September, 2016

Noise induced hearing loss and work with nailing and stapling guns

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12 September, 2016

Employment case law round up

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9 September, 2016

Refugees and their families will not be subject to the ‘past presence test’ when applying for disability benefits and carer's allowance

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8 September, 2016

New statistics show 27 per cent of tribunal applications granted full or partial fee remission

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8 September, 2016

Number of claimants placed in the ESA support group fell from 91,500 to 57,000 in the three months to March 2016

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