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20 July, 2021 Open access

Practice Direction 55C updated to further extend temporary provisions in relation to stayed possession proceedings

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20 July, 2021 Open access

‘Categorically not the case’ that the government has issued instructions to local authorities to end Everyone In, says Minister

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20 July, 2021 Open access

Social Mobility Commission calls for government to scrap two-child limit and increase benefit payments for children

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20 July, 2021

Extent of tribunal’s obligation to take into account Secretary of State’s changed view after making pre-hearing PIP ‘offer’, when decision under appeal remains the unrevised decision

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20 July, 2021

Tribunal erred in failing to ensure it had before it an accurate list of work-related activities that were available for the claimant to undertake / training of universal credit staff on providing lists to tribunals not completed until July 2020

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20 July, 2021

Cross-party coalition of MPs calls on government to commit to continued funding for Housing First in Autumn spending review

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19 July, 2021

DWP says it is ‘not in the public interest’ to release analysis it has undertaken on potential impact on poverty of withdrawing £20 uplift to universal credit and working tax credit

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19 July, 2021

Civil Procedure Rules amended to provide for seven days notice of eviction when previously notified eviction is not carried out as intended

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19 July, 2021

Council tax is an ‘increasingly regressive’ tax penalising those in deprived areas and on lower incomes, say MPs

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19 July, 2021

Unions call for ‘urgent reset’ in government’s approach to LGBT employment rights

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19 July, 2021

Equality and Human Rights Commission launches inquiry on the right to challenge decisions about adult social care

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19 July, 2021

DWP facing legal challenge to PIP hospital rules that remove entitlement after stays of more than 28 days

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19 July, 2021

Employment case law round up

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16 July, 2021 Open access

HMCTS outlines plans to increase capacity across courts and tribunals in England following the removal of the legal requirement for social distancing from next week

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16 July, 2021

NAO qualifies opinion on DWP accounts for 2020/2021, reporting that more claims and relaxed controls during Covid-19 pandemic have led to record £8.3 billion in overpayments

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16 July, 2021 Open access

Early expiry of provisions that have downgraded local authority duties to assess and meet care needs during Covid-19 outbreak in England

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16 July, 2021

Amendment of Winter Fuel Payment Regulations and social security reciprocal arrangements in Northern Ireland in consequence of the UK’s exit from the EU

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16 July, 2021 Open access

Early expiry of provisions that have enabled local authorities in Wales to determine whether to comply with duties to assess and meet care needs during Covid-19 outbreak

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15 July, 2021

CJEU rules that, while legislation excluding EU citizens with pre-settled status from universal credit is not contrary to EU law, competent authority must check that refusal of assistance does not infringe individual's right to human dignity

More Welfare rights case law

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