News and case law

2 September, 2022

Centre for Social Justice sets out proposal for ‘deliverable, cost effective and targeted package’ to tackle ‘unprecedented’ cost of living challenge

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1 September, 2022

Resolution Foundation forecasts that, without significant intervention, number of people living in absolute poverty will rise by three million over next two years

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1 September, 2022

DWP confirms its strategy for monitoring and evaluating the ‘move to universal credit’ process

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1 September, 2022

Overall assessment of circumstances needed in deciding whether childcare disregard applies rather than assessment based solely on whether actual physical care has been provided

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1 September, 2022

Department for Communities publishes universal credit, PIP and benefit cap statistics for period to May 2022

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31 August, 2022

Almost 70 per cent of independent food banks fear they will be unable to meet demand this winter

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31 August, 2022

Transfer of working-age DLA claimants in Scotland to adult disability payment

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31 August, 2022 Open access

Extending provision that enables relaxation of social security timescales in Scotland where delay is as a result of coronavirus

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31 August, 2022

Access to means-tested benefits in Northern Ireland for people subject to immigration control

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31 August, 2022 Open access

Enabling people in Northern Ireland to continue to be able to claim SSP where absence from work is related to Covid-19

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31 August, 2022

Northern Ireland Audit Office qualifies opinion on Department for Communities 2021/2022 accounts as a result of the level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure

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Consultation launched on introduction of a Decent Homes Standard for the private rented sector

Centre for Social Justice sets out proposal for ‘deliverable, cost effective and targeted package’ to tackle ‘unprecedented’ cost of living challenge

More than 2.5 million households in England have still not been paid the £150 council tax energy rebate

Resolution Foundation forecasts that, without significant intervention, number of people living in absolute poverty will rise by three million over next two years

DWP confirms its strategy for monitoring and evaluating the ‘move to universal credit’ process

Overall assessment of circumstances needed in deciding whether childcare disregard applies rather than assessment based solely on whether actual physical care has been provided

Ombudsman warns councils that they must not allow care providers they work with to have subsidiary contracts with clients

400,000 households with heating supplied through communal systems are unprotected by energy price cap

MaPS launches call for evidence on debt advice clients with deficit budgets

Department for Communities publishes universal credit, PIP and benefit cap statistics for period to May 2022

Round-up of recent Upper Tribunal housing case law

Government launches consultation on limiting increases in social housing rents in England in next financial year

Almost 70 per cent of independent food banks fear they will be unable to meet demand this winter

Shelter Scotland calls for Scottish Housing Emergency Action Plan to tackle ‘failing housing and homelessness system’

Transfer of working-age DLA claimants in Scotland to adult disability payment

Extending provision that enables relaxation of social security timescales in Scotland where delay is as a result of coronavirus

Access to means-tested benefits in Northern Ireland for people subject to immigration control

Enabling people in Northern Ireland to continue to be able to claim SSP where absence from work is related to Covid-19

Northern Ireland Audit Office qualifies opinion on Department for Communities 2021/2022 accounts as a result of the level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure