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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.

27 April, 2022

Scottish Government confirms plan to make automatic awards of Best Start Grant early learning and school age payments

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26 April, 2022

Housing Ombudsman makes finding of severe maladministration in relation to landlord’s repeated complaint handling failures

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26 April, 2022

APPG launches call for evidence on standards of temporary accommodation in England

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25 April, 2022

DWP to commence ‘multi-site approach’ to mandatory migration to universal credit from next month

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25 April, 2022

Government urged to remove the ‘cap on care costs for charging purposes’ clause from the Health and Care Bill

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25 April, 2022

Temporary pause on energy suppliers being able to make requests for Fuel Direct deductions from benefits

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25 April, 2022

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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22 April, 2022

Ground rent charges to be ‘banned’ on most new residential leases in England and Wales from June 2022

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22 April, 2022

Temporary pause on energy suppliers being able to make requests for Fuel Direct deductions from benefits

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21 April, 2022

DWP’s Way to Work campaign is ‘absolutely not a change in sanctions policy’

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20 April, 2022

Government rejects Lord’s concerns about universal credit, despite DWP Minister saying that peers’ views must be taken account of in the ‘ongoing process’ of reform

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20 April, 2022

Money and Mental Health Policy Institute issues new guidance to help energy providers support vulnerable customers

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20 April, 2022

DWP confirms it has developed an ‘automated digital solution’ to extend PIP awards to prevent them going out of payment due to delays in assessments being carried out

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20 April, 2022

Delays to occupational therapist visits mean that disabled people are ‘waiting years’ for home adaptations

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19 April, 2022

Equality and Human Rights Commission to require the DWP to improve its treatment of disabled benefit claimants

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19 April, 2022

DWP’s assertion that jobcentre staff do not advise people to claim universal credit is ‘disingenuous’

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19 April, 2022

Users have a ‘continued and unfulfilled need’ for WCA statistics since the rollout of universal credit, says Office for Statistics Regulation

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19 April, 2022

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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14 April, 2022

Levels of deprivation endured by children of parents subject to NRPF condition ‘should not be allowed to dominate any childhood’

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