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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 June, 2016

UN Committee calls for review and reversal of benefit cuts introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012

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28 June, 2016

Employment tribunal fees should be ‘eliminated’ according to United Nations Committee

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28 June, 2016

Ten per cent of adults in working families were living in poverty in the UK in 2014/2015

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28 June, 2016

Debbie Abrahams appointed Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary

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27 June, 2016

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary resigns from Shadow Cabinet

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24 June, 2016

EU referendum outcome means UK settlement agreed at the European Council in February 2016 will not now take effect and ceases to exist

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24 June, 2016

Council fettered its discretion in refusing to consider support to carers who work

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24 June, 2016

Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

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24 June, 2016

Romanian national could not establish right to reside on basis of self-employment as Big Issue vendor (not ‘genuine and effective work’) or unauthorised employment

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24 June, 2016

Effect of pauses and halts on ability to move around when applying PIP mobility descriptors

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23 June, 2016

Government to write directly to those who do not meet ten qualifying years of national insurance contributions required for the new state pension

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23 June, 2016

A person does not ‘own’ a property which is under a restraint order forbidding sale

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23 June, 2016

Blackwood v Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

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23 June, 2016

No requirement for evidence to be ‘compelling’ to satisfy ‘genuine prospect of work test’

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23 June, 2016

Activity 7 'understanding communication' can be satisfied on basis of either hearing or sight difficulties

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23 June, 2016

Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley and Ors

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23 June, 2016

More than a million people have returned to Jobcentre Plus at the end of their two years on the Work Programme

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