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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.

5 October, 2022

Loopholes in new legislation designed to protect tenants in Scotland could lead to thousands becoming homeless over next six months

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4 October, 2022

MaPS announces award of contracts for national and business debt advice services and administration of debt relief orders in England

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4 October, 2022

DWP provides figures on what the level of the benefit cap would be if it had been increased in line with inflation or average earnings

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4 October, 2022

Work and Pensions Committee calls on Chancellor to honour predecessor’s commitment to uprate benefits in line with inflation

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4 October, 2022

Government confirms that second cost of living payment will be made between 8 and 23 November 2022 for those on DWP means-tested benefits

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4 October, 2022

Excluding claimants whose home is in Scotland from eligibility for cold weather payments

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4 October, 2022

Scottish Government introduces Bill to temporarily freeze rents and prevent eviction enforcement action until April 2023

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4 October, 2022

Revocation and re-enactment of regulations in relation to statutory parental bereavement leave and pay in Northern Ireland

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3 October, 2022

Tribunal’s approach to claimant’s oral and written evidence, that it considered lacked credibility, was not an error of law

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3 October, 2022

Circumstances in which a person for whom tax credits have not been abolished may make a fresh claim following termination of an award

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3 October, 2022

New licensing scheme introduced for short-term lets in Scotland

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3 October, 2022

Transfer of HMCTS staff to the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service to reflect increasing workload within the Scottish social security tribunal system

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3 October, 2022

Round-up of recent Upper Tribunal housing case law

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3 October, 2022

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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30 September, 2022

Without a U-turn on tax cuts, the Chancellor has eight weeks to decide which combination of public spending or welfare cuts he is going to announce

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30 September, 2022

Government reports that more than 14 million cost of living payments have been processed, including 6 million payments to people on disability benefits

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30 September, 2022

Almost half a million people could be forced onto more expensive prepayment meters by the end of 2022

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