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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.

24 August, 2023

Health and care organisations warn that universal credit is falling so far short of the cost of essentials that it is putting the health of millions at risk

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24 August, 2023

On any given night, one in a hundred households in England are experiencing ‘core homelessness’

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23 August, 2023

Court of Appeal rules that Waltham Forest’s decision to offer accommodation outside of London to homeless single parent who was subject to benefit cap was not unlawful

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23 August, 2023

High Court finds that a council’s decision refusing to place a claimant with severe mental health problems in the highest band of its allocation scheme was lawful

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22 August, 2023

Third of private renters could not pay even one month’s rent if they lost their job

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22 August, 2023

Fewer than one in five of those eligible for the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Fund received the £400 payment they were due

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22 August, 2023

Almost a quarter of calls to Social Security Scotland are taking 30 minutes or more to be answered

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21 August, 2023

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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17 August, 2023

Disabled people face worsening discrimination and rising risk of poverty as a result of government failures in policy areas including welfare benefits and social care

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17 August, 2023

Department for Communities issues Direction to authorise electronic claims for budgeting loans in Northern Ireland

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16 August, 2023

Court of Session rules that voluntary share incentive plan was ‘in connection with’ a contract of employment and therefore protected under TUPE Regulations

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16 August, 2023

British claimant who was unable to return to the UK for medical reasons could not be exempted from the PIP past presence test

More Welfare rights case law

16 August, 2023

Transfer process from DLA to child disability payment for children and young people in Scotland is now more than 99 per cent complete

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15 August, 2023

Delays to PIP reviews are leading to disabled people missing out on £24 million every month

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15 August, 2023

Number of people on universal credit rose to more than 6 million in July 2023

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15 August, 2023

Universal credit sanction rate remains more than double its pre Covid-19 level

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15 August, 2023

‘Consistent, if relatively small’ proportion of tax credit claimants are not making a claim for universal credit after receiving a migration notice

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15 August, 2023

Number of Ukrainian households found to be owed statutory homelessness duty in England continues to rise

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14 August, 2023

Home Office writes to Afghan households given Notice to Quit bridging accommodation to confirm support arrangements for seeking settled accommodation

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