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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.

20 June, 2023

Number of households subject to benefit cap increased by 3 per cent in the three months to February 2023

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20 June, 2023

DWP acknowledges that waiting times for PIP and ESA inquiry lines ‘have been too long’

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20 June, 2023

Welsh Government launches White Paper consultation on a new tribunal system for Wales

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19 June, 2023

DWP invites applications for Future Support Offer grant funding to extend support for people claiming universal credit to April 2026

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19 June, 2023

More than 30 homelessness charities warn Prime Minister that government is not on track to meet commitment to end rough sleeping in England by 2024

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19 June, 2023

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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16 June, 2023

DWP has the capacity to deal smoothly with any increase in the number of benefit applications resulting from the Home Office’s new streamlined asylum process, says Home Secretary

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16 June, 2023

Allowing DLA for children to continue for 13 weeks after claimant has left England, Wales or Northern Ireland and becomes permanently resident in Scotland

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16 June, 2023

Average speed of answering PIP telephone enquiries exceeded 40 minutes in March, April and May 2023   

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16 June, 2023

Government’s energy bills support took too long to get to those most in need, say MPs

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15 June, 2023

Use of AI within the new digital justice systems being created in England and Wales likely to result in it taking some decisions, says Master of the Rolls

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15 June, 2023

MPs vote against SNP Opposition Day motion that included call to create a new Cost of Living Select Committee

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15 June, 2023

Select Committee seeks clarification of government’s ‘outright rejection’ of some of its key recommendations on the long-term funding of adult social care

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15 June, 2023

Banning Section 21 evictions will only improve renters’ rights if forthcoming legislation prevents ‘backdoor’ no-fault evictions from taking place

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15 June, 2023

Ombudsman expresses disappointment at care provider’s refusal to pay compensation to former resident because he said he had ceased trading

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15 June, 2023

Bill providing for automatic enrolment onto Healthy Start scheme receives first reading in House of Commons

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15 June, 2023

Consultation launched on plans to enshrine international human rights into Scottish law for the first time

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