News and case law

18 March, 2022

Allocation of additional funding to local authorities to meet costs of improving housing benefit management information about supported accommodation and temporary accommodation

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18 March, 2022

Ensuring that UK disability benefits do not overlap with Scottish adult disability payment

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18 March, 2022

DWP issues details of the new Rent Rebate Subsidy Limitation arrangements for Welsh local authorities

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18 March, 2022

Removing barriers to fit notes being completed, authorised and issued digitally in Northern Ireland

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17 March, 2022

Lords Select Committee draws regulations that reduce the job seeking permitted period to four weeks to the ‘special attention’ of the House

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17 March, 2022

PCS warns that thousands of its members face possible redundancy as DWP announces closure of 42 offices by June 2023

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17 March, 2022

Miscellaneous amendments in relation to the further rollout of universal credit to replace legacy benefits

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17 March, 2022

Scottish Government to increase eight of its devolved social security benefits by 6 per cent in April 2022

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17 March, 2022

Welsh Affairs Committee calls on government to reintroduce universal credit uplift in light of rising cost of living

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16 March, 2022

Tribunal of Northern Ireland Commissioners rules that appeal tribunals are not obliged to follow PIP guidance in the Advice for Decision Making Guide relating to fixed-term awards

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16 March, 2022

Improving the process for issuing and signing fit notes digitally for social security and SSP purposes

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16 March, 2022

Conferring power on Upper Tribunal judges to certify that an application for permission to appeal is ‘totally without merit’

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16 March, 2022

Introduction of indefinite awards as part of new adult disability payment demonstrates ‘how we are determined to do things differently’, says Scottish Social Security Minister

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15 March, 2022

Government launches consultation on proposals for changes to the civil legal aid means test

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DLUHC sets out plan for further regulation of supported accommodation sector

Allocation of additional funding to local authorities to meet costs of improving housing benefit management information about supported accommodation and temporary accommodation

Ensuring that UK disability benefits do not overlap with Scottish adult disability payment

DWP issues details of the new Rent Rebate Subsidy Limitation arrangements for Welsh local authorities

Removing barriers to fit notes being completed, authorised and issued digitally in Northern Ireland

Update to the list of housing associations in Northern Ireland whose tenants are charged rates on the basis of a social sector value

Lords Select Committee draws regulations that reduce the job seeking permitted period to four weeks to the ‘special attention’ of the House

PCS warns that thousands of its members face possible redundancy as DWP announces closure of 42 offices by June 2023

Scotland’s First Minister sets out plans to offer temporary accommodation to Ukrainian refugees to enable ‘significant numbers to come to Scotland immediately’

Miscellaneous amendments in relation to the further rollout of universal credit to replace legacy benefits

Scottish Government to increase eight of its devolved social security benefits by 6 per cent in April 2022

Welsh Affairs Committee calls on government to reintroduce universal credit uplift in light of rising cost of living

Tribunal of Northern Ireland Commissioners rules that appeal tribunals are not obliged to follow PIP guidance in the Advice for Decision Making Guide relating to fixed-term awards

Improving the process for issuing and signing fit notes digitally for social security and SSP purposes

Conferring power on Upper Tribunal judges to certify that an application for permission to appeal is ‘totally without merit’

Introduction of indefinite awards as part of new adult disability payment demonstrates ‘how we are determined to do things differently’, says Scottish Social Security Minister

Government launches consultation on proposals for changes to the civil legal aid means test

Private Tenancies Bill passes its final stage in Northern Ireland Assembly

Housing Ombudsman makes two findings of severe maladministration concerning social landlord’s failure to minimise disruption of temporary move for vulnerable tenant