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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.

26 November, 2015

Government responds to consultation on freezing the student loan repayment threshold

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26 November, 2015

Secretary of State's appeal against decision that was in his favour, but that separately found DLA regulation 12(1A) - severe visual impairment and high rate mobility - to be ultra vires, was incompetent

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25 November, 2015

Welfare benefit related highlights in today’s Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015

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25 November, 2015

DWP confirms that jobseeker's allowance claimants are not sanctioned for failing to answer their telephone

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25 November, 2015

Free childcare for those with three and four years olds to be doubled to 30 hours from 2017

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25 November, 2015

Help to Buy to be extended to 2021 and new scheme to be established for London

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25 November, 2015

Higher rates of stamp duty for buy to let and second home purchases

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25 November, 2015

‘Five point plan’ to deliver 400,000 affordable housing starts by 2020/2021

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25 November, 2015

Health and social care to be integrated by 2020

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25 November, 2015

Funding for Better Care Fund to be worth £1.5bn in 2019/2020

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25 November, 2015

Dilnot reforms to social care to be implemented from April 2020

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25 November, 2015

£500m to be provided by 2019/2020 for the Disabled Facilities Grant

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25 November, 2015

Local authorities to be able to raise extra 2 per cent in council tax to pay for social care

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25 November, 2015

44,100 sanctions imposed on lone parent income support claimants in year to June 2015

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25 November, 2015

Northern Ireland (Welfare Reform) Bill receives second and third readings in House of Lords

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25 November, 2015

Number of starts on Skills Conditionality has dropped by over 50 per cent in the last year

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24 November, 2015

42 per cent of people who were eligible to claim income-based JSA in 2013/2014 did not make a claim

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