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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.

25 July, 2016

Flawed assessment of care needs caused visually impaired woman distress and put health at risk

More Community care news

25 July, 2016

Work and Health Programme should adopt a ‘whatever works’ approach to employment support, says IPPR North

More Welfare rights news

25 July, 2016

Difference between housing benefit received and total rent has more than doubled in the social sector in the last six years

More Welfare rights news

25 July, 2016

Reduction of permitted periods of temporary absence from Great Britain for pension credit

More Welfare rights news

25 July, 2016

Employment case law round up

More Employment case law

22 July, 2016

Select Committee calls for evidence on how to tackle financial exclusion

More Debt news

22 July, 2016

Government to publish impact assessment, funding and risk data for policy to extend Right to Buy

More Housing news

22 July, 2016

Regulations precluding EEA nationals who are jobseekers from claiming housing benefit are not ultra vires

More Welfare rights case law

21 July, 2016

Government rejects recommendation to publish regular sanctions statistics during in-work conditionality trial

More Welfare rights news

21 July, 2016

Mandatory reconsideration process should be standardised across DWP and HMRC with clear communications on the processes and time limits that apply

More Welfare rights news

21 July, 2016

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry into employment opportunities for young people

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21 July, 2016

DCLG publishes series of reports detailing findings from the English Housing Survey 2014/2015

More Housing news

21 July, 2016

Problems with DWP and HMRC telephony ‘still appear to abound’, says SSAC

More Welfare rights news

21 July, 2016

Requirement to consider the ‘reliability’ criteria when assessing mobility descriptors / whether a satnav can be an ‘orientation aid’ when following a route

More Welfare rights case law

21 July, 2016

Introduction of universal credit in Northern Ireland delayed until autumn 2017

More Welfare rights news

21 July, 2016

Opposition day motion to scrap housing benefit cap for supported accommodation defeated in the Commons

More Welfare rights news

20 July, 2016

Less than half of people over 50 with care needs live in homes with any health-related adaptations

More Community care news