News and case law

20 May, 2022

Bill to vary the rate of child benefit over the course of childhood receives first reading in House of Lords

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20 May, 2022

Amendment of Best Start Foods scheme in Scotland to allow for payments to partners, and applications from, and payments to, appointees

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19 May, 2022

Government announces new ‘Fighting Fraud’ initiative that includes plans to give DWP staff powers to make arrests and carry out ‘search and seizure’

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19 May, 2022

DWP to trial offer of ‘additional work coach support’ to claimants awaiting a work capability assessment

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19 May, 2022

Miscellaneous amendments to tax credits and child benefit provisions

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19 May, 2022

Scotland’s Auditor General praises successful launch of new devolved social security benefits through the pandemic but warns that ‘a huge amount of work remains’

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18 May, 2022

Claimants who miss the deadline for applying for universal credit during the managed migration ‘discovery phase’ will be given a minimum one-month extension

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18 May, 2022

While CPI inflation rose to 9 per cent in April 2022, the poorest households experienced a rate of inflation close to 11 per cent, says IFS

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18 May, 2022

More than 3,000 children and young people awarded child disability payment in Scotland since its launch in July 2021

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17 May, 2022

Universal credit sanction rate now higher than pre-pandemic position

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17 May, 2022

Number of universal credit claimants in the ‘no work requirements’ conditionality group exceeds those required to search for work for the first time in the nine years since the benefit was launched

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16 May, 2022

High Court of Northern Ireland rules that treatment of maternity allowance as unearned income for the purposes of universal credit is not unlawful

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Acas survey finds that more than one in five employers plan to make Covid-19 vaccination a condition of employment

Ombudsman highlights good practice recommendations for local authorities and local service providers to promote equal access for people with disabilities

Bill to vary the rate of child benefit over the course of childhood receives first reading in House of Lords

Amendment of Best Start Foods scheme in Scotland to allow for payments to partners, and applications from, and payments to, appointees

Government announces new ‘Fighting Fraud’ initiative that includes plans to give DWP staff powers to make arrests and carry out ‘search and seizure’

High Court rules that London Borough of Lambeth’s failure to properly consider Everyone In policy in refusing to accommodate woman with no recourse to public funds made decision unlawful

DWP to trial offer of ‘additional work coach support’ to claimants awaiting a work capability assessment

Government’s quarterly possession statistics show private landlord ‘no-fault’ accelerated possession claims are at their highest level since 2018

Miscellaneous amendments to tax credits and child benefit provisions

Council found at fault for leaving a family including a child with disabilities without home adaptations they needed because of confusion around who was responsible for the work

Scotland’s Auditor General praises successful launch of new devolved social security benefits through the pandemic but warns that ‘a huge amount of work remains’

Claimants who miss the deadline for applying for universal credit during the managed migration ‘discovery phase’ will be given a minimum one-month extension

Court of Appeal upholds High Court ruling that a local authority has no power to accept a late review of its decision not to grant another tenancy on the expiry of the fixed term of a flexible tenancy

Bill providing right to statutory paid leave for employees who are victims of domestic abuse in Northern Ireland receives Royal Assent

While CPI inflation rose to 9 per cent in April 2022, the poorest households experienced a rate of inflation close to 11 per cent, says IFS

More than 3,000 children and young people awarded child disability payment in Scotland since its launch in July 2021

Universal credit sanction rate now higher than pre-pandemic position

Number of universal credit claimants in the ‘no work requirements’ conditionality group exceeds those required to search for work for the first time in the nine years since the benefit was launched

High Court of Northern Ireland rules that treatment of maternity allowance as unearned income for the purposes of universal credit is not unlawful