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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.

4 January, 2016

House of Commons Library briefing on council tax reduction schemes

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4 January, 2016

Acas report on key workplace trends for 2016

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4 January, 2016

Resolution Foundation outlines challenges in implementing National Living Wage

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4 January, 2016

Employment case law round up

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4 January, 2016

House of Commons Library briefing paper on extending the Right to Buy

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4 January, 2016

Claimant can satisfy PIP descriptors if they only apply for part of the day

More Welfare rights case law

24 December, 2015

Homes of up to 440,000 vulnerable people could be at risk through benefit changes and cuts to social housing rents

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24 December, 2015

Where a claimant suffers from two or more conditions, probability of PIP descriptors applying on more than 50 per cent of days must be calculated

More Welfare rights case law

24 December, 2015

Claimant not entitled to widowed parent’s allowance because neither she nor deceased spouse were entitled to child benefit immediately before he died

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23 December, 2015

Bedroom tax: Claimant not entitled to an additional bedroom for children who live with him at weekends and in school holidays because he was not receiving child benefit for them

More Welfare rights case law

23 December, 2015

Work and Pensions Committee to explore possibility of welfare state based on residency and contributions

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23 December, 2015

Bedroom tax is ‘promoting more effective use of housing stock’ says government

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23 December, 2015

Tribunal entitled to find claimant failed to disclose earnings without evidence of DWP telephone record system; several years delay in appeal proceedings did not breach right to a fair hearing under Article 6 ECHR

More Welfare rights case law

22 December, 2015

Housing (Wales) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2015

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22 December, 2015

HMRC sets out criteria to identify people at a 'particular disadvantage' who will not be considered for Direct Recovery of Debts

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22 December, 2015

Farnan v Sunderland Association Football Club Ltd

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22 December, 2015

Insolvency Practitioners (Recognised Professional Bodies) (Revocation of Recognition) Order 2015

More Debt news

22 December, 2015

Meaning of a ‘week’ for the purposes of statutory paternity, adoption and shared parental pay

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22 December, 2015

Scottish Agricultural Wages Board to be retained

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