News and case law

15 December, 2022

Almost a third of local authorities in England and Wales have already spent more than 60 per cent of their DHP budget in first half of 2022/2023

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15 December, 2022

Around £44 million has been paid out as a result of PIP review exercise following Upper Tribunal decisions relating to ‘psychological distress’ and carrying out activities ‘safely’

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15 December, 2022

DWP confirms that average clearance time for referrals to National Special Payments Team is nine days

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14 December, 2022

More than 2 million households have at least one deduction taken from their universal credit payment every month

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14 December, 2022

MPs call for 2023/2024 cost of living payments to be spread out across the winter months to help mitigate the effect of ‘perverse cliff edges’

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14 December, 2022

JRF calls on government to provide additional cost of living payments this winter, including at least £450 to those on means-tested benefits

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14 December, 2022

Tribunal’s failure to put to a child DLA claimant’s appointee the strategies it considered could reduce the child’s need for attention below the threshold for an award amounted to an error of law

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14 December, 2022

Increasing the profit level at which the self-employed become liable to pay Class 2 national insurance contributions

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14 December, 2022

Welsh Government says that its best efforts to prevent and mitigate child poverty ‘have been hindered by decisions taken by the UK Government’

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13 December, 2022

DWP sets out ambitious ‘new approach’ to helping people progress in work

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13 December, 2022

200,000 new claims for PIP were made in England and Wales in the quarter to October 2022, up more than a fifth over the last year

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Permission granted for judicial review challenge to regulations allowing agency workers to fill in for striking workers

Government publishes initial findings from English Housing Survey 2021/2022

Almost a third of local authorities in England and Wales have already spent more than 60 per cent of their DHP budget in first half of 2022/2023

Around £44 million has been paid out as a result of PIP review exercise following Upper Tribunal decisions relating to ‘psychological distress’ and carrying out activities ‘safely’

DWP confirms that average clearance time for referrals to National Special Payments Team is nine days

Department for Communities launches call for evidence on proposals for debt respite scheme in Northern Ireland

More than 2 million households have at least one deduction taken from their universal credit payment every month

MPs call for 2023/2024 cost of living payments to be spread out across the winter months to help mitigate the effect of ‘perverse cliff edges’

JRF calls on government to provide additional cost of living payments this winter, including at least £450 to those on means-tested benefits

Government announces Homes for Ukraine hosts will receive monthly £500 ‘thank you’ payments for ongoing support of Ukrainians after their first year in the UK

Government to make it a legal requirement for bailiffs to use body-worn cameras

Government issues Ministerial Direction to Regulator of Social Housing requiring it to set a temporary seven per cent cap on social housing rent increases for 2023/2024

Tribunal’s failure to put to a child DLA claimant’s appointee the strategies it considered could reduce the child’s need for attention below the threshold for an award amounted to an error of law

Average monthly rents in England exceed £800 for the first time, new ONS data shows

Housing Ombudsman launches investigation into Islington Council to establish whether repeated tenant complaints about damp and mould are indicative of wider, systemic failings of the landlord

Increasing the profit level at which the self-employed become liable to pay Class 2 national insurance contributions

Welsh Government says that its best efforts to prevent and mitigate child poverty ‘have been hindered by decisions taken by the UK Government’

DWP sets out ambitious ‘new approach’ to helping people progress in work

200,000 new claims for PIP were made in England and Wales in the quarter to October 2022, up more than a fifth over the last year