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14 September, 2021

Amendments to local authority housing benefit subsidy arrangements, and to the system of DWP grants to cover DHP expenditure

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13 September, 2021

DWP provides update on progress in delivering an explicit consent process within universal credit

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13 September, 2021 Open access

Secretary of State fails to take into account universal credit taper rate in suggesting that claimants can make up for the loss of the £20 uplift by working two extra hours a week

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13 September, 2021

Claimants will be informed by debt management staff that they can request a waiver of universal credit overpayments ‘if they express concern about repayment’, Minister says

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13 September, 2021

Fostering allowances paid to carers approved by independent agencies, in common with allowances paid to carers approved by local authorities, are not to be counted as part of their earnings

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13 September, 2021

Treatment of payments from the Adviser Discretion Fund in Northern Ireland for upfront costs of childcare

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13 September, 2021

Providing for an exception to bedroom tax for claimants living in a social sector property that has been adapted under a sanctuary scheme in Northern Ireland

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13 September, 2021

Amendment of claims and payments rules to allow arrears of devolved disability benefits in Scotland to be paid by instalments

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10 September, 2021 Open access

Retrospective verification of 900,000 ‘at risk’ universal credit claims made during Covid-19 pandemic finds 11 per cent ‘had something wrong’

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10 September, 2021

Providing exception to bedroom tax for claimants living in a social sector property that has been adapted under a sanctuary scheme

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10 September, 2021 Open access

HMRC confirms that around 23,000 further working tax credit claimants will receive the one-off £500 Covid payment in September 2021

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10 September, 2021

Hundreds of DWP staff are being redeployed to deal with backlog in processing new state pension claims

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10 September, 2021

DWP invites applications for delivery of a universal credit ‘Help to Claim’ type service from April 2022

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10 September, 2021 Open access

DWP confirms that Covid-19-related carer’s allowance easements ended on 31 August 2021

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10 September, 2021

Court of Appeal rules that bereavement benefits cannot be paid under the law as it currently stands to surviving partner of religious polygamous marriage not recognised in England and Wales

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10 September, 2021 Open access

Volume of social security and child support appeal receipts down by more than 50 per cent on pre-Covid-19 baseline

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10 September, 2021

Scottish Government announces that child disability payment will open for new applications nationally from 22 November 2021

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10 September, 2021

Onset of prescribed disease A15 - Dupuytren’s contracture - occurs at contracture stage rather than when claimant first experiences symptoms of disease

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