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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 May, 2023

New Health Transformation Programme assessment contracts for period from 2024 to 2029 awarded to Maximus, Capita and Ingeus

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26 May, 2023

More than two million calls to the DWP’s Future Pensions Centre helpline were blocked from entering the call waiting queue between January and May 2023

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26 May, 2023

Carer’s Leave Bill receives Royal Assent

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26 May, 2023

Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill receives Royal Assent

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26 May, 2023

Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill receives Royal Assent

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26 May, 2023

Care Quality Commission confirms pilot areas for testing of new framework for assessing how well councils are performing their Care Act 2014 duties

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25 May, 2023

Court of Appeal rules that Secretary of State’s practice of excluding claimants awaiting verification of national insurance number applications from advance payments of universal credit is unlawful

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25 May, 2023

Managed migration of universal credit to roll out in Durham and Tees Valley, Kent, North London and East Anglia from July 2023

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25 May, 2023

DWP sets out high-level strategy for evaluating and tracking the performance of the Health Transformation Programme

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25 May, 2023

Claimants that participated in Covid-related employment programmes provide mixed views on the adequacy of the support they received from their work coach to move into work

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25 May, 2023

FCA consults on placing temporary Covid-19 requirements for lenders to support borrowers in difficulty on a permanent footing

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24 May, 2023

Chair of Work and Pensions Committee asks the DWP to explain why it has refused to share data relating to sanctions with researchers

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24 May, 2023

Around 140 organisations join JCWI and CIH in calling on the government to abandon its plans to remove HMO licensing requirements from asylum accommodation

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24 May, 2023

More than 100,000 universal credit households were subject to the minimum income floor in February 2023

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24 May, 2023

House of Commons votes in favour of motion calling for Housing Secretary to confirm government’s plans for the reform of the leasehold system

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24 May, 2023

Failure by social landlords to prioritise knowledge and information management is causing ‘daily detriment’ to tenants, says Ombudsman

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24 May, 2023

Public Accounts Committee launches inquiry into DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022/2023

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