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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.

20 December, 2021

Court of Appeal rules that judge was wrong to accept that an earlier breach of the public sector equality duty in a possession claim was remedied by a housing authority’s evidence at trial

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20 December, 2021

Welfare benefit uprating 2022/2023

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20 December, 2021

New legal duty proposed in Scotland requiring public bodies to ‘ask and act’ to prevent homelessness

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20 December, 2021

Scottish Government launches consultation on proposals to deliver a ‘new deal’ for tenants

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20 December, 2021

Disregarding payments from historical institutional child abuse and Windrush compensation schemes in the calculation of means-tested benefits in Northern Ireland

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17 December, 2021

MaPS concedes that proceeding with its procurement exercise for the award of regional debt advice contracts would not be in the best interests of people who need debt advice

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17 December, 2021 Open access

DWP suspends requirement to submit medical evidence after seven days of sickness or disability for universal credit and ESA

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17 December, 2021

Adult disability payment to open for new applications in pilot areas in Scotland from March 2022

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17 December, 2021 Open access

Covid-19-related modifications to notice of eviction requirements in Wales to remain in force until 24 March 2022

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17 December, 2021

Commencement of provisions in relation to health assessments for the purposes of entitlement to Scottish social security assistance

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17 December, 2021

Lords Select Committee warns that significant level of ‘disguised legislation’ in Health and Care Bill ‘offends against the democratic principles of parliamentary scrutiny’

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17 December, 2021 Open access

Number of days over which employees are not required to provide medical evidence of sickness absence for SSP purposes extended from seven to 28 days in Northern Ireland

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16 December, 2021 Open access

Number of days over which employees are not required to provide medical evidence of sickness absence for SSP purposes extended from seven to 28 days

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16 December, 2021

Work and Pensions Committee gives Secretary of State ‘one final chance’ to publish research into disabled people’s experience of benefits system

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16 December, 2021

Number of English and Welsh local authorities that spent more than half of their discretionary housing payment allocations almost tripled in first six months of 2021/2022

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16 December, 2021

Front-line debt advisers call on government to stop Money and Pensions Service making cuts to community-based debt advice services

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16 December, 2021

Migration Advisory Committee urges government to review ban on employment for asylum seekers

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