News and case law

24 January, 2022

Assessment providers now have the facility to audio record both telephone and face to face PIP consultations

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24 January, 2022

More than 500 PIP assessments and almost 1,500 work capability assessments have been carried out under the DWP’s new Health Transformation Area initiative

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21 January, 2022

High Court rules that failure to compensate claimants who migrated to universal credit for loss of enhanced disability premium and child tax credit disabled child element is unlawful

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21 January, 2022

DWP issues guidance on the effect of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Fratila on cases that have been stayed pending its outcome

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21 January, 2022

HMRC sets out proposed annual rates of tax credits, child benefit and guardian’s allowance from April 2022

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21 January, 2022

MPs call on DWP to rectify ‘shameful shambles’ behind underpayment of state pension to 134,000 claimants

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21 January, 2022

Government advises MPs that it cannot agree to recommendation that DWP should produce a six-year plan to reduce the rate of universal credit overpayments

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21 January, 2022

Finance and Public Administration Committee agrees that Scottish Government will need to ‘take intelligent decisions about the nature of social security in order to meet demand’

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20 January, 2022

More than a quarter of tax credit debts transferred to universal credit for recovery are more than five years old

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20 January, 2022

DWP confirms it is continuing to explore how ‘blockchain technologies’ could be used to issue welfare benefit payments

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20 January, 2022

Miscellaneous amendments to council tax reduction schemes in Wales

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19 January, 2022

Court of Session confirms that provisions that enable refugees to make backdated child tax credit claims from the date they sought asylum continue to apply where that date was before the introduction of full service universal credit

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19 January, 2022

DWP to consider how it could improve its telephone line for people in receipt of letters from its debt management service

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19 January, 2022

More than 8 in 10 claims for Scotland’s child disability payment in the pilot stage of its rollout were made online

More Welfare rights news

Assessment providers now have the facility to audio record both telephone and face to face PIP consultations

More than 500 PIP assessments and almost 1,500 work capability assessments have been carried out under the DWP’s new Health Transformation Area initiative

DWP expands Restart scheme to include universal credit claimants who have been unemployed for nine months or more

Government confirms that Identification Document Validation Technology will enable more people to verify their immigration status online to comply with the ‘right to rent’ and ‘right to work’ regimes

Employment case law round up

High Court rules that failure to compensate claimants who migrated to universal credit for loss of enhanced disability premium and child tax credit disabled child element is unlawful

DWP issues guidance on the effect of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Fratila on cases that have been stayed pending its outcome

HMRC sets out proposed annual rates of tax credits, child benefit and guardian’s allowance from April 2022

MPs call on DWP to rectify ‘shameful shambles’ behind underpayment of state pension to 134,000 claimants

Crisis urges government to ‘finish the job’ as peers back repeal of ‘appalling and outdated’ Vagrancy Act

Government advises MPs that it cannot agree to recommendation that DWP should produce a six-year plan to reduce the rate of universal credit overpayments

Finance and Public Administration Committee agrees that Scottish Government will need to ‘take intelligent decisions about the nature of social security in order to meet demand’

High Court dismisses judicial review that argued that the Housing Secretary was in breach of public law duties by adopting an unpublished position when taking steps to curtail the Everyone In initiative

More than a quarter of tax credit debts transferred to universal credit for recovery are more than five years old

DWP confirms it is continuing to explore how ‘blockchain technologies’ could be used to issue welfare benefit payments

Miscellaneous amendments to council tax reduction schemes in Wales

Court of Session confirms that provisions that enable refugees to make backdated child tax credit claims from the date they sought asylum continue to apply where that date was before the introduction of full service universal credit

DWP to consider how it could improve its telephone line for people in receipt of letters from its debt management service

More than 8 in 10 claims for Scotland’s child disability payment in the pilot stage of its rollout were made online