News and case law

9 July, 2021

Government must not make changes to the Human Rights Act that would make it harder for people to enforce their rights and expose the government and agencies to more judgments against them

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9 July, 2021

Reversion of DLA past presence test to 26 out of 52 weeks for children aged between 3 and 16

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9 July, 2021

Deductions from universal credit to collect court fines in Northern Ireland

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8 July, 2021

DWP confirms intention to extend terminal illness provision in social security benefits

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8 July, 2021 Open access

Reintroduction of the universal credit minimum income floor over the 12 months to 31 July 2022

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8 July, 2021 Open access

Disregard of payments under the Covid Local Support Grant and equivalent Devolved Administration schemes when calculating income for tax credits purposes

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8 July, 2021

DWP provides update on PIP and work capability health assessment video pilots

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8 July, 2021

DWP completes ‘reassessment journey’ for all 600,000 incapacity benefit claimants who were potentially underpaid on their migration to ESA

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8 July, 2021

Local authorities in England and Wales spent 98 per cent of their allocated DHP funding during 2020/2021

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8 July, 2021

Ensuring no overlapping payments of DLA, PIP or AFIP with the Scottish child disability payment

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7 July, 2021 Open access

Select Committee suggests decision to end £20 universal credit uplift is being led by ‘dates not data’

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7 July, 2021

Telephone assessments have led to better quality reports as assessors have to ask better questions and ‘can’t just make judgments on what they see’, DWP Permanent Secretary tells MPs

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7 July, 2021

‘Voluntary move’ to universal credit to ‘start in earnest’ after the autumn and continue through 2022, says DWP

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7 July, 2021 Open access

DWP issues updated guidance to local authorities on the extended Covid Local Support Grant

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‘Wasted decade’ has seen social care system stagnate while those in many other countries have been modernised and strengthened

Government must not make changes to the Human Rights Act that would make it harder for people to enforce their rights and expose the government and agencies to more judgments against them

Reversion of DLA past presence test to 26 out of 52 weeks for children aged between 3 and 16

Deductions from universal credit to collect court fines in Northern Ireland

DWP confirms intention to extend terminal illness provision in social security benefits

Reintroduction of the universal credit minimum income floor over the 12 months to 31 July 2022

Disregard of payments under the Covid Local Support Grant and equivalent Devolved Administration schemes when calculating income for tax credits purposes

DWP provides update on PIP and work capability health assessment video pilots

Court of Session upholds ET decision that dismissal of teacher suspected of downloading indecent images of children was within the range of reasonable responses open to employer

DWP completes ‘reassessment journey’ for all 600,000 incapacity benefit claimants who were potentially underpaid on their migration to ESA

Local authorities in England and Wales spent 98 per cent of their allocated DHP funding during 2020/2021

Ensuring no overlapping payments of DLA, PIP or AFIP with the Scottish child disability payment

Levels of overcrowding and rent arrears in the private and social rented sectors highlighted in new analysis of English Housing Survey data

Select Committee suggests decision to end £20 universal credit uplift is being led by ‘dates not data’

Telephone assessments have led to better quality reports as assessors have to ask better questions and ‘can’t just make judgments on what they see’, DWP Permanent Secretary tells MPs

‘Voluntary move’ to universal credit to ‘start in earnest’ after the autumn and continue through 2022, says DWP

DWP issues updated guidance to local authorities on the extended Covid Local Support Grant

Government issues new Treasury Direction in relation to the fifth payment under the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme

Court of Appeal rules that the entrance door to a flat within a block is not a ‘landlord’s fixture’ but part of the structure of the building