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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.

7 December, 2015

Spending review ‘represents another setback for people who need social care’

More Community care news

7 December, 2015

Eligibility for shared ownership to be expanded to further 175,000 people

More Housing news

7 December, 2015

93 per cent of employers think that National Living Wage is a good idea

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7 December, 2015

Universal credit claimants are more likely to move into work than similar JSA claimants, says DWP

More Welfare rights news

7 December, 2015

Five week wait for payment of universal credit ‘particularly difficult for those with housing costs’

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7 December, 2015

Roll-out of the universal credit Digital Service

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7 December, 2015

Employment case law round up

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4 December, 2015

Moorjani v Durban Estates Ltd

More Housing case law

4 December, 2015

Risk of work-related activity post IM

More Welfare rights case law

4 December, 2015

An ordinary chair or bed can constitute an ‘aid’ for the purposes of the PIP descriptors if a claimant needs to sit on it to dress or undress

More Welfare rights case law

4 December, 2015

Disability discrimination: key points for the workplace

More Employment news

4 December, 2015

‘Hospice at home’ services to be expanded throughout Wales

More Community care news

4 December, 2015

Tackling extreme housing exclusion

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3 December, 2015

DWP begins to send letters warning that it will supply information on child maintenance non-compliance to credit reference agencies

More Welfare rights news

3 December, 2015

Claimant entitled to appeal against any aspect of uprating decision including application of bedroom tax / tribunal had jurisdiction to make new bedroom tax decision even though previous decision was not challenged

More Welfare rights case law

3 December, 2015

Over 352,000 rental sector tenants in England have faced eviction over last year

More Housing news

3 December, 2015

Sinclair Gardens Investments (Kensington) Ltd v Ray

More Housing case law