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5 December, 2022

Court of Appeal dismisses challenge to universal credit disabled student rules

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5 December, 2022

Government to introduce legislation making the right to request flexible working a day one entitlement

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5 December, 2022

Protection for Whistleblowing Bill receives second reading in the House of Lords

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5 December, 2022

Government announces £50 million Homelessness Prevention Grant ‘exceptional winter top-up funding’ for local authorities in England

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5 December, 2022

More than 300,000 households in Great Britain will be at risk of homelessness next year if the government does not urgently change its policies

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5 December, 2022

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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2 December, 2022

Restart Scheme will cost the government more per person than originally anticipated, and more than comparable initiatives such as the Work Programme

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2 December, 2022

More than 500,000 universal credit awards had a deduction to recover tax credit debts in October 2022

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2 December, 2022

DWP Minister confirms that new system introduced in 2019 to automatically award national insurance credits to universal credit claimants will be fully operational ‘next month’

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2 December, 2022

Judiciary announces change in the practice of how certain judges are addressed in courts and tribunals

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2 December, 2022

Government rules out increasing bereavement support payment above its 2017 level

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2 December, 2022

Round-up of recent Upper Tribunal housing case law

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2 December, 2022

Government confirms that two thirds of work capability assessments are still being carried out over the telephone

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2 December, 2022

Leasehold Reform (Forfeiture) Bill receives first reading in the House of Lords

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2 December, 2022

Revaluation of ‘protected payments’ and pension sharing ‘debits and credits’ in the new state pension in Northern Ireland

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2 December, 2022

Department for Communities publishes research findings on barriers to pension credit take up in Northern Ireland and how it could be improved

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1 December, 2022

New housing regime introduced today under the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 will provide renters in Wales with greater security than in any other part of the UK, Welsh Government says

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1 December, 2022

Government to announce full-scale Civil Legal Aid Review before the end of the year

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1 December, 2022

Almost 3,000 Ukrainian households found to be owed statutory homelessness duty in England between 24 February and 18 November 2022

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