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Daily news and case law updates across five areas of social welfare law: welfare benefits, debt, housing, employment and community care. Subscribe for updates.

31 October, 2022

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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28 October, 2022

Campaigners call on new Prime Minister to publish the Renters’ Reform Bill in the current parliamentary session

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28 October, 2022

Government confirms new ministerial line-up at the Department for Work and Pensions

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28 October, 2022

Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Bill receives Royal Assent

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28 October, 2022

Modification of prescribed forms that landlords are required to serve on tenants when seeking to end a tenancy to reflect temporary changes under Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022

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28 October, 2022

Ombudsman directs Integrated Care Board to pay former live-in carer £250,000 to compensate for hundreds of unpaid hours caring for severely disabled man

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28 October, 2022

Delegation of functions of a judicial nature to legal officers in the Property Chamber

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28 October, 2022

High Court of Northern Ireland holds that Housing Executive's refusal to allow claimant's application for 'intimidation' points under allocation scheme was unlawful for its failure to properly consider the legal threshold of ‘serious and imminent risk’

More Housing case law

27 October, 2022

Current system of exempt accommodation is a ‘complete mess’, say MPs

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27 October, 2022

More than 100 organisations call on new Prime Minister to honour his commitment to uprate benefits in line with inflation

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27 October, 2022

More than 100,000 people have arrived in the UK under the Homes for Ukraine scheme

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27 October, 2022

Les Allamby appointed as new Discretionary Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland

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27 October, 2022

Department for Communities in Northern Ireland publishes 2021 annual report on social security decision making and financial accuracy

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26 October, 2022

Social Security (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill receives Royal Assent

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26 October, 2022

More than half of private renters in receipt of housing benefit or universal credit have rents that are higher than the local housing allowance

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26 October, 2022

Court of Appeal rules that where a debt, having been incurred in fraud, persists beyond discharge of bankruptcy, then the debtor can be ordered to revoke 'enhanced protection' pension rights in order that payments can be made to creditors

More Debt case law

26 October, 2022

Savings provision in relation to changes to Scottish Child Payment including the increase to £25 per week from 14 November 2022

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26 October, 2022

Independent expert panel places offset of two child limit at centre of new welfare mitigation proposals for Northern Ireland

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26 October, 2022

Bill that reverses April 2022’s national insurance increase to fund health and social care and next year’s Health and Social Care Levy receives Royal Assent

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