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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.

2 June, 2023

Third sector organisations in Scotland to be paid a fee for providing information to support disability benefit claims

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2 June, 2023

Financial Conduct Authority announces ban on debt packager firms receiving referral fees from debt solution providers

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2 June, 2023

Regulation of modes of attendance in court proceedings in the Court of Session and certain cases in the sheriff court in Scotland

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1 June, 2023

New research finds no evidence that two-child policy increases employment

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1 June, 2023

Ombudsman issues Good Practice Guide for local authorities in relation to unsuitable temporary accommodation

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1 June, 2023

Social Security Scotland confirms that not all those eligible for best start grant school age payment will receive automatic awards

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1 June, 2023

Scottish Government proposes a further, and final, six month extension of temporary cost of living protections for tenants in Scotland

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31 May, 2023

Previously announced increase in maximum childcare payments in universal credit will come into effect from 28 June 2023

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31 May, 2023

Increase in the maximum amounts for childcare support in universal credit

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31 May, 2023

Amendment of Sure Start maternity grant entitlement conditions in Northern Ireland for people fleeing Afghanistan and Ukraine

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31 May, 2023

Energy Secretary urged to extend deadline for households without a direct relationship with a domestic electricity supplier to apply for energy bills support

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31 May, 2023

Temporary increase to winter fuel payments in Northern Ireland in 2023/2024

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31 May, 2023

Department for Communities in Northern Ireland publishes universal credit, benefit cap, PIP and ESA statistics for period to February 2023

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30 May, 2023

Court of Appeal rules that tenants with shared ownership leases are qualifying tenants for purposes of right to manage even where their interests are less than 100 per cent

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30 May, 2023

Select Committee seeks clarification of government’s intentions and timetable for introducing private rented sector reforms not included in Renters (Reform) Bill

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30 May, 2023

Change to PIP past presence test from September 2021 does not assist Afghan-British national who was unlawfully imprisoned in Afghanistan for more than three years prior to making claim

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30 May, 2023

Scottish local authorities spent less than a third of the DHP funding allocated to them to mitigate the benefit cap in 2022/2023

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