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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.

5 August, 2016

People with poor mental health are twice as likely to be behind on bills, says Citizens Advice

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4 August, 2016

Ability to mobilise to ‘an acceptable standard’ must include an assessment of the effects of pain

More Welfare rights case law

4 August, 2016

17 per cent of long-term unemployed claimants were sanctioned while undertaking the Supervised Jobsearch Pilot

More Welfare rights news

4 August, 2016

Claimants could have been better prepared for Intensive Activity Programme, says DWP

More Welfare rights news

4 August, 2016

15 per cent of households affected by the benefit cap were claiming jobseeker's allowance in May 2016

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4 August, 2016

Jones v Luton Borough Council

More Housing case law

3 August, 2016

Galo v Bombadier Aerospace UK

More Employment case law

3 August, 2016

Inadequate care provision in a care home does not prevent suspension of DLA care component

More Welfare rights case law

3 August, 2016

1 million disabled people will need to move into work in order to halve disability employment gap

More Employment news

2 August, 2016

Microwave is not an ‘aid or appliance’ for cooking / definition of ‘simple meal’ in activity 1

More Welfare rights case law

2 August, 2016

300,000 households have unmet needs for accessible housing, says LSE

More Housing news

2 August, 2016

Document certifying permanent residence is only evidence and does not create a right to reside

More Welfare rights case law

2 August, 2016

Abolition of family premium and limiting backdating of housing benefit in Northern Ireland

More Welfare rights news

1 August, 2016

Knock-on costs of working-age adult poverty adds at least £2.7 billion to benefits budget, says JRF

More Welfare rights news

1 August, 2016

Grandparent can derive a right to reside as the primary carer of a child but parent must have also worked in the UK

More Welfare rights case law

1 August, 2016

Employment case law round up

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29 July, 2016

Scottish Government consults on new social security system

More Welfare rights news

29 July, 2016

Lone parent conditionality more likely to result in other benefit claims than a move into work, says IFS

More Welfare rights news

29 July, 2016

18 per cent of carers are waiting for housing adaptations, says Carers UK

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