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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.

13 December, 2021

Employment case law round up

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10 December, 2021

‘Concerning proportion’ of private renters live in unsafe or insecure conditions with limited ability to exercise their rights, says National Audit Office

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10 December, 2021

Disregarding payments from schemes compensating victims of historical institutional child abuse and from the Windrush Compensation Scheme in the calculation of means-tested benefits

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10 December, 2021

Regulations introduced to freeze local housing allowance rates for a second year at their 2020/2021 levels

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10 December, 2021

DWP confirms next steps in development of a digital process for adult social care teams to exchange care home admissions and funding information

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10 December, 2021

Ombudsman recommends council pays £2,000 compensation to family that waited more than three years for disabled facilities adaptations for their disabled child

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10 December, 2021

Law Commission recommends introduction of a new independent unified tribunal system for Wales

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10 December, 2021

Government sets out how it is ensuring that its welfare reforms uphold the human rights model of disability, and do not disproportionately or adversely affect the rights of people with disabilities

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9 December, 2021

Scottish Budget 2022/2023 commits to investment of more than £4 billion in social security and welfare payments

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9 December, 2021

AdviceUK calls for Money and Pensions Service to ‘press pause’ on its procurement process for debt advice services in England

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9 December, 2021

More than 700,000 households lived in overcrowded conditions in 2020/2021, according to English Housing Survey

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9 December, 2021

Average end-to-end clearance time for initial ESA work capability assessments was 150 days in June 2021

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9 December, 2021

Numbers of social security appeal receipts and disposals continue on a downward trend and are still far below 2019’s pre-Covid-19 baseline

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9 December, 2021

Time limits for the process that enables disabled people in Scotland to make adjustments to the common areas of their premises

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8 December, 2021

Government confirms that it has decided not to amend asylum seeker right to work policy in light of findings from Home Office review

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8 December, 2021

Secretary of State stands by decision not to publish findings from research into disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system

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8 December, 2021

HMCTS publishes new data strategy designed to build confidence and improve access to justice for all

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8 December, 2021

‘Better delivery’ and the transfer of ‘appropriate financial support’ will be crucial to the successful devolution of benefits in Wales

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8 December, 2021

Levelling Up Select Committee launches inquiry into exempt accommodation

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