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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.

1 April, 2015

Scottish Housing Quality Standard becomes a requirement for social landlords

More Housing news

1 April, 2015

Housing benefit should be excluded from universal credit in Scotland, says Shelter Scotland

More Welfare rights news

1 April, 2015

Regulation 29(2)(b), as amended in 2013, not satisfied by generalised reliance on employer's duties under Equality Act 2010

More Welfare rights case law

1 April, 2015

New LSE report considers effects of welfare reforms on social housinng landlords and tenants

More Housing news

1 April, 2015

Carers UK welcomes new rights for carers, but remains concerned over funding

More Community care news

1 April, 2015

Whether the causal link of misrepresentation leading to a recoverable overpayment is broken following an interview under caution

More Welfare rights case law

1 April, 2015

Care Act 2014 and Children and Families Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015

More Community care news

1 April, 2015

Automatic right to be treated as having limited capability for work on repeat ESA claim made more than six months after being found fit for work removed in Northern Ireland

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1 April, 2015

New Rent Standard Guidance

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1 April, 2015

Number of people contacting StepChange Debt Charity has risen 56 per cent since 2012

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1 April, 2015

Care Act comes into force without adequate funding, warns Care and Support Alliance

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31 March, 2015

High Court rules that local authority's decision to take care component of DLA into account when assessing DHPs was unlawful

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31 March, 2015

Local Government Association recommends replacing Work Programme with locally devolved schemes

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31 March, 2015

Allowing JSA and IS claimants or their partners and partners of ESA claimants to attend 43 days of Reserve Forces training

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31 March, 2015

Impact on income-related benefits of the new 'pension flexibilities' being introduced from April 2015

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31 March, 2015

Repeat ESA assessments and ‘pending appeal’ awards

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31 March, 2015

Good workplace practices can spot and resolve mental health issues, says TUC

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