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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.

29 August, 2014

Couple awarded £10,000 compensation for delay of over two years in giving them a personal budget

More Housing news

28 August, 2014

Tribunal wrong to hold paper hearing after claimant had said she could not attend but wanted husband to represent her

More Welfare rights case law

28 August, 2014

Date of birth should be decided by evidence not assumption

More Welfare rights case law

28 August, 2014

What amounts to ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK for the purposes of working tax credit

More Welfare rights case law

27 August, 2014

For what period should earnings paid in arrears be attributed for the purposes of housing benefit

More Welfare rights case law

27 August, 2014

Jobcentre plus should be measured on its success in moving people into work, rather than simply off benefits, says Matthew Oakley

More Welfare rights news

27 August, 2014

Construction and application of ‘social engagement’ descriptors

More Welfare rights case law

27 August, 2014

The Real Deal: No credit and broke

More Debt news

27 August, 2014

Bank of Scotland plc v Rea, McGeady, Laverty

More Debt case law

26 August, 2014

Terry McCue, as guardian of her adult son Andrew McCue (AP) v Glasgow City Council

More Community care case law

26 August, 2014

Local authorities in Scotland make DHP awards totalling more than £28m in period from 1 April to 30 June 2014

More Welfare rights news

26 August, 2014

Employment case law round up

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26 August, 2014

Views sought on preventing employers avoiding ban on exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts

More Employment news

22 August, 2014

Bankruptcy Fees (Scotland) Regulations 2014

More Debt news

22 August, 2014

Working families will suffer twice the level of benefit losses as out of work families by 2016/2017

More Welfare rights news

22 August, 2014

Condition of many of Britain’s social housing estates is ‘nothing short of a national embarrassment’

More Housing news

22 August, 2014

Meaning of ‘change of circumstances’ in regulation 67(1) of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006

More Welfare rights case law