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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 July, 2023

Universal credit claimants responsible for young children now required to have more frequent meetings with their work coach

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24 July, 2023

Welsh Government seeks views on proposal to exclude bed and breakfast accommodation used for homelessness purposes from being subject to an occupation contract

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24 July, 2023

High Court rules that Home Office system for supporting asylum seekers while they wait for their asylum claims to be determined is unlawful

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24 July, 2023

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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21 July, 2023

Court of Appeal rules that it has jurisdiction to consider appeal against Upper Tribunal’s refusal to set aside earlier decision to refuse permission to appeal

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21 July, 2023

Infrastructure and Projects Authority maintains ‘Amber’ rating for DWP’s Universal Credit and Health Transformation Programmes

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21 July, 2023

Workers to get more flexibility over where and when they work as Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill receives Royal Assent

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21 July, 2023

Strikes (Minimum Service Level) Act will help give the public access to the essential services they need, says government

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21 July, 2023

Royal Assent for Social Housing (Regulation) Bill will help drive up standards and give residents a proper voice, says Secretary of State

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21 July, 2023

Government welcomes new powers designed to speed up the recovery of child maintenance arrears as Child Support (Enforcement) Bill receives Royal Assent

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21 July, 2023

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry to examine how the DWP supports vulnerable claimants and whether its approach to safeguarding needs to change

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21 July, 2023

DLUHC says findings from new study reinforce its goal to ensure reform of leasehold system is backed by measures that raise awareness of available alternatives and support their uptake

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20 July, 2023

DWP publishes new statistics to ‘provide transparency’ in relation to its White Paper proposal to abolish the WCA in universal credit and instead provide a health top up based on receipt of PIP

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20 July, 2023

Regulations extending the deadline for payment of voluntary national insurance contributions to increase new state pension entitlement are an ‘instrument of interest’, says Scrutiny Committee

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20 July, 2023

Government sets out changes it is making to improve the supply, quality and regulation of social housing

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20 July, 2023

Amendment of child support collection arrangements in Northern Ireland corresponding to those made in Great Britain by the Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Act 2023

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20 July, 2023

Levelling Up Committee launches inquiry to examine challenges associated with shared home ownership schemes

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20 July, 2023

Business Committee Chair calls for government to ‘get a grip’ and get serious about enforcing workers’ rights

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19 July, 2023

Labour leader says decision to keep two-child limit demonstrates willingness to take tough decisions

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