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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 April, 2022

Allocation of additional funding to local authorities to support the costs of implementing welfare reform changes in 2022/2023

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5 April, 2022

Housing benefit administration subsidy arrangements for local authorities in 2022/2023

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5 April, 2022

Employment Tribunals Presidents express ‘firm wish’ for discrimination and whistleblowing claims to return to in-person hearings by default

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5 April, 2022

Around 160,000 Kickstart placements were taken up by young people during the 18 months in which scheme was open

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5 April, 2022

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors consults on inclusion of social housing tenants of long leasehold flats in revised service charge residential management code

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5 April, 2022

Extension of ‘terminally ill’ life expectancy timeframe to 12 months in Northern Ireland to help people get earlier access to fast-tracked social security benefits

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5 April, 2022

Prescribing 11 April 2022 as date when revised Code of Practice on the exercise of social services functions in Wales comes into force

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4 April, 2022

DWP sets out details of new ‘Special Rules’ that focus on whether a claimant is likely to be in their final year of life

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4 April, 2022

Court of Appeal considers sufficiency of enquiries required to establish suitability of accommodation offered to a homeless person with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment

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4 April, 2022 Open access

Housing benefit for those affected by the war in Ukraine and for those providing support through the Homes for Ukraine scheme

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4 April, 2022 Open access

Homes for Ukraine guidance issued to local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales

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4 April, 2022 Open access

DLUHC sets out steps it is taking to prevent the Homes for Ukraine scheme from affecting a sponsor’s council tax status in England

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4 April, 2022

DWP to review PIP claims by deaf or hearing impaired people who may be affected by Upper Tribunal decision relating to washing or bathing safely

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4 April, 2022

Joint Committee of MPs and peers concludes that the DWP ‘failed to comply with proper legislative practice’ when it expedited regulations that reduced the job seeking permitted period to four weeks

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4 April, 2022

Adult Social Care Committee seeks views on changes needed to create a ‘fair, resilient and sustainable’ care system in England

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4 April, 2022

Amendment of regulations relating to the terms and conditions of employment of agricultural workers in Wales

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4 April, 2022

Miscellaneous amendments to employment provisions consequent upon the introduction of statutory parental bereavement leave and pay in Northern Ireland

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4 April, 2022

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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1 April, 2022

DWP introduces ‘temporary pause’ on energy suppliers being able to make requests for Fuel Direct deductions from benefits

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