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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.

13 July, 2023

Provision of lump-sum payments to claimants during cost of living crisis has been poorly designed to alleviate deprivation

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13 July, 2023

Bill making provision in relation to workplace bullying receives first reading in House of Commons

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12 July, 2023

DWP confirms that its ability to test for unfair impacts across protected characteristics is currently limited when using algorithms to detect potential fraud

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12 July, 2023

EU Rights and Brexit Hub issues memo to Work and Pensions Committee highlighting concerns that regulations disapplying EU equal treatment legislation create a ‘default of discrimination’

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12 July, 2023

Scottish Government and COSLA launch consultation on increasing council tax for properties in valuation bands E to H

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12 July, 2023

Department for Communities in Northern Ireland must do more to improve use of further evidence in assessing PIP entitlement

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11 July, 2023

Court of Appeal rules that UK Disability Survey did not constitute a consultation and so did not attract obligations including to ‘permit intelligent consideration and response’

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11 July, 2023

Government confirms that it plans to move ahead with ‘ambitious overhaul’ of Consumer Credit Act

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11 July, 2023

Government launches new Health Adjustments Passport for disabled veterans

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11 July, 2023

Government says it is carrying out final consultations on repeal of the Vagrancy Act and will ‘look for right piece of legislation as soon as possible’

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11 July, 2023

Housing Ombudsman to use enhanced scrutiny powers for the first time to carry out an in-person inspection of a landlord’s repeated complaints handling failures

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10 July, 2023

Roll out of Health Transformation Programme is capped at 20 per cent until 2029 due to ‘limitations’ in the Functional Assessment Services contracts

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10 July, 2023

Simplified forms to be used in carrying out light touch reviews of PIP to be introduced from August 2023

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10 July, 2023

Employment Tribunals President issues updated guidance on alternative dispute resolution and judicial mediation

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10 July, 2023

Universal credit £20 uplift had a far greater impact on reducing poverty rates than increase in work allowances and reduction of taper rate that followed its withdrawal

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10 July, 2023

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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7 July, 2023

Until the DWP develops an ‘early warning system’ to pick up systemic underpayment issues, large scale corrective exercises will continue to be a common feature of the benefit system

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