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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.

9 September, 2021

DWP rejects SSAC recommendation to implement and publish a strategy for evaluating the performance of the claimant commitment

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9 September, 2021

Post Office card account closures delayed until November 2022

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9 September, 2021

Kent care provider has ‘dubious distinction’ of being first independent care provider to be issued with two Adverse Findings Notices by Ombudsman

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9 September, 2021 Open access

1.6 million people remained on furlough at 31 July 2021, new HMRC statistics show

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9 September, 2021 Open access

Government launches consultation on mandatory Covid-19 and flu vaccinations for frontline health and care staff in England

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9 September, 2021 Open access

Closure of the Covid-19-related statutory sick pay rebate scheme for employers from 30 September 2021

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9 September, 2021 Open access

Reversion of notice periods required for landlords to seek possession to their pre-pandemic position

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9 September, 2021

Number of rough sleepers approaching local authorities in England for housing assistance up by almost 40 per cent in 2020/2021

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8 September, 2021

Bill introduced in the Commons to replace the state pension triple lock with a double lock for 2022/2023

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8 September, 2021 Open access

While context around the government’s Covid-related employment programmes has moved on, the DWP has failed to adapt or change its plans, say MPs

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8 September, 2021 Open access

Opposition day debate on the withdrawal of the £20 uplift cancelled to allow MPs to vote on the government’s plan for a new health and social care levy

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8 September, 2021

Seven appeals relating to the Scottish child payment have been put on pause by the First-tier Tribunal in Scotland while the ‘law is looked at again’

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8 September, 2021

Number of people waiting for adult social care assessments, services or reviews in England increased by a quarter to around 300,000 in the three months to August 2021

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8 September, 2021

Government announces financial measures to support the introduction of pilot No-Interest Loans Scheme

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8 September, 2021

Crisis warns government that unless it commits to funding Housing First, it is at ‘serious risk’ of undermining progress it has made towards reducing rough sleeping

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7 September, 2021

Government sets out plan for health and social care reform, including a cap on social care costs and new capital limits for financial assistance

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7 September, 2021

Work and Pensions Secretary announces that earnings element of state pension triple lock will be suspended for one year

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7 September, 2021

Measures to help create a fairer Scotland set out in new Programme for Government 2021/2022

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7 September, 2021

Claimant found not to have created rent liability to take advantage of housing benefit scheme where entitlement was the same as it was before the liability was created

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