News and case law

20 December, 2022

MPs call for childcare costs caps in universal credit to be uprated to better reflect the true cost of childcare

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20 December, 2022

Scottish Government reports on increase in complaints received by Social Security Scotland as roll out of child disability payment and adult disability payment continues

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19 December, 2022

Government announces £100 million additional funding for local authorities to support council tax support claimants in England

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19 December, 2022

Where Upper Tribunal has accepted appeal on one ground, it need not address other grounds

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19 December, 2022

Tick box answers in PIP2 questionnaire cannot be used by First-tier Tribunal as a proxy to obviate the need to make findings about the frequency of a claimant’s difficulties

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19 December, 2022

Scottish Government sets out draft uprated devolved benefit rates for 2023/2024

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16 December, 2022

MPs express concern about ‘shocking’ benefit sanction figures that show that more than £36 million is being ‘clawed back’ from claimants every month

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16 December, 2022

Independent Case Examiner says that she is working with the DWP to understand the increase in unresolved complaints being referred to her office and to ‘see how that might be stemmed’

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16 December, 2022

DWP says that bereavement benefit reforms will take effect from date of Supreme Court judgment in 2018 because that was when incompatibility with ECHR ‘was accepted as final’

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16 December, 2022

Scottish Affairs Committee launches inquiry into whether the needs of rural communities in Scotland are adequately met by the UK Government’s cost of living support

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15 December, 2022

Scottish Government commits to increasing devolved benefits by 10.1 per cent in April 2023

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Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Bereavement) Bill receives its first reading in House of Commons

Court of Appeal upholds Employment Tribunal decision that rejected 'automatic' dismissal claim made by claimant who had left his workplace believing he was in 'serious and imminent danger' from Covid-19

High Court dismisses creditor’s applications to cancel debtor’s mental health crisis moratorium and enforce outstanding ‘subrogated debt’ by evicting debtor from property at the centre of the dispute

Ensuring continued eligibility of confirmed victims of human trafficking or slavery for housing and homelessness assistance and housing authority accommodation

MPs call for childcare costs caps in universal credit to be uprated to better reflect the true cost of childcare

Scottish Government reports on increase in complaints received by Social Security Scotland as roll out of child disability payment and adult disability payment continues

Government announces £100 million additional funding for local authorities to support council tax support claimants in England

Government announces extension of Energy Bills Support Scheme to help more households across Great Britain and Northern Ireland ‘worry less about their energy and heating bills this winter’

Where Upper Tribunal has accepted appeal on one ground, it need not address other grounds

Tick box answers in PIP2 questionnaire cannot be used by First-tier Tribunal as a proxy to obviate the need to make findings about the frequency of a claimant’s difficulties

Scottish Government sets out draft uprated devolved benefit rates for 2023/2024

More than 30 homelessness service providers warn of ‘devastating’ impact of not extending the government’s Energy Bill Relief Scheme beyond March 2023

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

MPs express concern about ‘shocking’ benefit sanction figures that show that more than £36 million is being ‘clawed back’ from claimants every month

Independent Case Examiner says that she is working with the DWP to understand the increase in unresolved complaints being referred to her office and to ‘see how that might be stemmed’

DWP says that bereavement benefit reforms will take effect from date of Supreme Court judgment in 2018 because that was when incompatibility with ECHR ‘was accepted as final’

Scottish Affairs Committee launches inquiry into whether the needs of rural communities in Scotland are adequately met by the UK Government’s cost of living support

Exemption of Members of the Scottish Parliament from requirement to report annually about public interest disclosures which they receive from workers

Scottish Government commits to increasing devolved benefits by 10.1 per cent in April 2023