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10 January, 2023

When considering a backdating request for universal credit, tribunal should consider whether original claim included an ‘implied claim’ for a past period

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10 January, 2023

Housing Ombudsman makes finding of severe maladministration in relation to housing association’s failure to address fire safety issues in resident’s flat

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10 January, 2023

Whether tribunal considering further appeal against decision that was finally determined ten years earlier was correct to find that it had no jurisdiction to admit it

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10 January, 2023

Housing Minister confirms that the government will legislate for second stage of its two-part leasehold reform programme ‘within this Parliament’

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10 January, 2023

Marie Curie calls on the government to give terminally ill people early access to their state pension

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9 January, 2023

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

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9 January, 2023

Regulations introduced to freeze local housing allowance rates for a third year at their 2020/2021 levels

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9 January, 2023

High Court rules that council’s decision to end temporary accommodation funded under Care Act 2014 provisions was not unlawful where claimant fell under Housing Act 1996 scheme

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9 January, 2023

Welsh Public Services Ombudsman launches consultation on proposed ‘own initiative’ investigation into carers’ needs assessments and complaints

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9 January, 2023

2022 was a ‘truly horrendous year’ for living standards in the UK and there is more to come in 2023

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9 January, 2023

More than 1.4 million households face an average £250 increase in monthly housing costs when they renew their fixed-rate mortgages in 2023

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9 January, 2023

Increase in the maximum amount of disabled facilities grant payable in Northern Ireland

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9 January, 2023

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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5 January, 2023

Government’s plans for legislation to ‘attack the right to strike’ will make it harder for disputes to be resolved, says TUC

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5 January, 2023

Government to carry out new review of civil legal aid with a view to moving towards a ‘more effective, more efficient and more sustainable system’

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5 January, 2023

Almost all welfare rights advisers responding to recent survey say that pension credit claimants are facing delays in excess of the DWP’s six-week processing target

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5 January, 2023

Combined effect of universal credit taper and high income child benefit charge creates ‘truly punitive’ effective tax rates and an ‘iron cap on aspiration’

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5 January, 2023

Ombudsman warns local authorities that 15-minute care visits are ‘rarely enough’

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4 January, 2023

Almost a third of audited PIP assessments either need amending or identify that the healthcare professional ‘requires learning’

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