News and case law

13 January, 2023

Independent Commission on the Future of Employment Support seeks evidence to develop proposals to reform the UK’s employment support and services system

More Welfare rights news

13 January, 2023

Miscellaneous amendments to council tax reduction schemes in England for 2023/2024

More Welfare rights news

12 January, 2023

Government expected to publish health and disability White Paper before the Spring budget setting out ‘ambitious and extensive’ reforms

More Welfare rights news

12 January, 2023

Tribunal correctly assessed that claimant could not establish ‘exceptional circumstances’ to enable PIP appeal, prompted by an unsuccessful LEAP review, outside 13-month absolute time limit

More Welfare rights case law

11 January, 2023

Contracts for current PIP health assessments extended to March 2024

More Welfare rights news

11 January, 2023

DWP identifies a further 300,000 people who may have been underpaid state pension

More Welfare rights news

11 January, 2023

Welsh Government confirms its spending plans for 2023/2024 do not include funding to continue its fuel support payment scheme

More Welfare rights news

11 January, 2023

Increase in the universal credit administrative earnings threshold in Northern Ireland from 30 January 2023

More Welfare rights news

11 January, 2023

Regulations introduced to freeze local housing allowance rates for 2023/2024 at their 2020/2021 levels in Northern Ireland

More Welfare rights news

10 January, 2023

10 per cent of claimants issued a migration notice in the first cohort of ‘move to universal credit’ discovery phase failed to make a claim and had their legacy benefits terminated

More Welfare rights news

10 January, 2023

Labour would guarantee that claimants who move into work with help of employment support could return to benefits without need for further assessment process

More Welfare rights news

Independent Commission on the Future of Employment Support seeks evidence to develop proposals to reform the UK’s employment support and services system

Miscellaneous amendments to council tax reduction schemes in England for 2023/2024

Government expected to publish health and disability White Paper before the Spring budget setting out ‘ambitious and extensive’ reforms

Tribunal correctly assessed that claimant could not establish ‘exceptional circumstances’ to enable PIP appeal, prompted by an unsuccessful LEAP review, outside 13-month absolute time limit

More than two million households are self-disconnecting their electricity or gas supplies every month as they can’t afford to top up their prepayment meters

Housing Ombudsman makes finding of severe maladministration after landlord takes several years to fully repair resident’s heating and hot water

Contracts for current PIP health assessments extended to March 2024

DWP identifies a further 300,000 people who may have been underpaid state pension

TUC vows to fight new public services strike legislation ‘every step of the way’

More than 270,000 people are recorded as homeless in England

Supreme Court rules that council’s charging policy for disabled adult did not breach provisions within Equality Act 2010

Miscellaneous changes in relation to the controls on migrant access to employment and the duty on employers to carry out right to work checks

Welsh Government confirms its spending plans for 2023/2024 do not include funding to continue its fuel support payment scheme

Requiring intermediaries to ‘pass through’ benefits received from the Energy Bills Support Scheme and Alternative Fuel Payments to end users in Northern Ireland

Increase in the universal credit administrative earnings threshold in Northern Ireland from 30 January 2023

Regulations introduced to freeze local housing allowance rates for 2023/2024 at their 2020/2021 levels in Northern Ireland

Government introduces legislation to allow it to set minimum levels of service during public services strikes

10 per cent of claimants issued a migration notice in the first cohort of ‘move to universal credit’ discovery phase failed to make a claim and had their legacy benefits terminated

Labour would guarantee that claimants who move into work with help of employment support could return to benefits without need for further assessment process