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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.

30 April, 2016

Court of Appeal upholds that retrospective legislation relating to back-to-work scheme is 'incompatible' with ECHR but nevertheless legislation remains 'effective'

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29 April, 2016

Descriptor 4e addresses the ability to get out of an 'unadapted' bath or shower / consideration of whether 'or' is disjunctive

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29 April, 2016

Debt relief orders in England and Wales up 8.2 per cent

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29 April, 2016

Poor housing conditions are the most common cause of homelessness in Northern Ireland

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29 April, 2016

Extending Right to Buy pays ‘scant regard’ to practical impacts on tenants, says Select Committee

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28 April, 2016

Gibbs v Leeds United Football Club Ltd

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28 April, 2016

Care needs of a ‘normal’ child rather than ‘some’ children must be considered when assessing the ‘substantially in excess of normal requirements’ test

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28 April, 2016

Third commencement order issued in relation to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015

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28 April, 2016

Action to take where a First-tier Tribunal has made inconsistent decisions about capital in respect of income support and housing benefit but only the housing benefit decision is appealed

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28 April, 2016

Government to extend maximum tenancy to cover the period a child is in school

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27 April, 2016

Posted Workers (Enforcement of Employment Rights) Regulations 2016

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27 April, 2016

Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

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27 April, 2016

Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016

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27 April, 2016

Personal insolvencies in Scotland down 13.3 per cent

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27 April, 2016

Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016

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27 April, 2016

Benefit sanctions and delays among the most common causes for people falling into destitution

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27 April, 2016

Scope of ‘welfare cap’ may create incentive to keep claimants on JSA, says National Audit Office

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