News and case law

24 May, 2023

Public Accounts Committee launches inquiry into ‘revising health assessments’ for disability benefits

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23 May, 2023

Claimant can rely on social assistance benefits paid to a partner in order to demonstrate self-sufficiency where their presence did not increase entitlement

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23 May, 2023

Where there is evidence that earnings were paid in two separate assessment periods, information from RTI system reporting them as paid in same assessment period can be disregarded

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23 May, 2023

Senedd Committee warns that response to cost of living crisis risks being a ‘sticking plaster’ for the most vulnerable people in Wales and calls for a more sustainable, long-term approach

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19 May, 2023

DWP announces trial of peer mentoring programme designed to help claimants out of addiction and into employment

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19 May, 2023

Disability cost of living payments to be issued between 20 June and 4 July 2023

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19 May, 2023

Qualifying day to establish entitlement to the 2023/2024 disability cost of living payment set as 1 April 2023

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19 May, 2023

Human rights remedy not available to 71 year old claimant whose PIP mobility component award was not increased to the enhanced rate following terminal illness diagnosis

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19 May, 2023

Senior President of Tribunals decides to implement proposal that PIP appeals about failure to attend a consultation or provide information should always be decided by a judge alone

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19 May, 2023

Scottish Commission on Social Security recommends that clearer guidance should be issued to claimants transferring to adult disability payment from other disability benefits

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19 May, 2023

Exemption from requirement to satisfy habitual residence test or past presence test in Northern Ireland for people fleeing Sudan

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18 May, 2023

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

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18 May, 2023

Nearly one in five child benefit claimants say a ‘digital by default’ system would cause them problems

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Public Accounts Committee launches inquiry into ‘revising health assessments’ for disability benefits

Public Accounts Committee launches inquiry into supported housing

Claimant can rely on social assistance benefits paid to a partner in order to demonstrate self-sufficiency where their presence did not increase entitlement

Where there is evidence that earnings were paid in two separate assessment periods, information from RTI system reporting them as paid in same assessment period can be disregarded

Senedd Committee warns that response to cost of living crisis risks being a ‘sticking plaster’ for the most vulnerable people in Wales and calls for a more sustainable, long-term approach

Department for Communities launches consultation on payment options given to private tenants in Northern Ireland when paying rent and other costs

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

DWP announces trial of peer mentoring programme designed to help claimants out of addiction and into employment

Disability cost of living payments to be issued between 20 June and 4 July 2023

Qualifying day to establish entitlement to the 2023/2024 disability cost of living payment set as 1 April 2023

Human rights remedy not available to 71 year old claimant whose PIP mobility component award was not increased to the enhanced rate following terminal illness diagnosis

Senior President of Tribunals decides to implement proposal that PIP appeals about failure to attend a consultation or provide information should always be decided by a judge alone

Scottish Commission on Social Security recommends that clearer guidance should be issued to claimants transferring to adult disability payment from other disability benefits

Amendments to Schedule 12 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016

Exemption from requirement to satisfy habitual residence test or past presence test in Northern Ireland for people fleeing Sudan

Number of landlords in England and Wales seeking to evict tenants by a section 21 ‘no-fault’ eviction is higher now than before the Covid-19 pandemic

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

Nearly one in five child benefit claimants say a ‘digital by default’ system would cause them problems

Ombudsman launches investigation into Hammersmith and Fulham Council to explore whether shortcomings in its handling of complaints and repair reports indicate wider failures