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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.

21 July, 2022

DWP sets out plans for changes to ‘front of house’ sites including consolidation of jobcentre offices

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21 July, 2022

DWP confirms that it does not intend to change guidance in relation to impact of CJEU judgment concerning EU Charter of Fundamental Rights on rights of EU nationals with pre-settled status

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21 July, 2022

People who accessed Breathing Space more than three times as likely to go through full debt advice and enter into debt solution

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20 July, 2022

Supreme Court rules that ‘part-year’ worker’s holiday pay should be calculated without reference to periods not worked

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20 July, 2022

System for challenging benefit sanctions poses significant harm to the health, finances, and well-being of claimants

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20 July, 2022

Too many social housing tenants are living in uninhabitable homes, experiencing appalling conditions with potential serious impacts on their mental and physical health

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20 July, 2022

DWP confirms that ‘two homes’ housing benefit rules apply to universal credit claimants with unavoidable overlapping liability on moving from supported or temporary accommodation

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20 July, 2022

Court of Appeal rules that a tribunal was entitled to reach conclusion that a claimant's conduct when making protected disclosures was separable from the protected disclosures themselves when establishing employer's principal reason for dismissal

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20 July, 2022

Welsh Government’s fuel support scheme extended to almost 200,000 more low-income households

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19 July, 2022

Without immediate and substantial government help, rising demand combined with existing pressures on social care will lead to ‘the most difficult winter ever experienced'

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19 July, 2022

Government launches expert panel to help social housing landlords tackle anti-social behaviour

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19 July, 2022

Government rejects Public Accounts Committee recommendation that it should conduct an assessment of resources needed for local authorities to enforce standards in the private rented sector

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19 July, 2022

Housing Ombudsman makes finding of severe maladministration in relation to Birmingham City Council delays in repairing an extensive water leak in resident’s property

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19 July, 2022

Resolving disputes about rent increases applying to ‘converted contracts’ under the Rented Homes (Wales) Act 2016

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18 July, 2022

High Court rules that a council’s failure to comply with section 189A Housing Act 1996 duty to assess primary housing needs and set out steps to retain or secure suitable accommodation was unlawful

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18 July, 2022

Increasing the winter fuel payment in 2022/2023 to take account of the new cost of living payment

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18 July, 2022

Government rejects call to implement Equality Act ‘combined discrimination’ provisions to provide better legal protection for those experiencing menopause at work

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18 July, 2022

Amendments to Civil Procedure Rules to take account of new housing regime under the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 from 1 December 2022

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18 July, 2022

DWP announces closure of Jobcentres in areas with a red severe weather warning

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