News and case law

5 July, 2021 Open access

‘Additional resources’ put into universal credit should be maintained, say six Conservative former Work and Pensions Secretaries

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5 July, 2021

Extra-statutory payments to be available to benefit claimants who failed to apply to EU Settlement Scheme by 30 June deadline

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5 July, 2021

High Court rules that provision for refugees to make a backdated child tax credit claim from the date they sought asylum continues to apply where that date was before introduction of full service universal credit

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5 July, 2021

Conversion of transitional SDP amount into universal credit transitional element

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5 July, 2021

Consultation launched on increasing the upper age for NHS prescription exemptions in England so it aligns with state pension age

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5 July, 2021 Open access

MSPs consider plans to make second coronavirus-related Carer’s Allowance Supplement double payment in December 2021

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2 July, 2021 Open access

Government announces additional £2 million in Covid-19 funding for advice sector in England and Wales

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2 July, 2021

MoJ provides update on advice partnerships across England and Wales funded as part of its £3.1 million Legal Support for Litigants in Person programme

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2 July, 2021

National Audit Office to conduct investigation into systematic underpayment of state pension to women whose husbands reached pensionable age before 2008

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2 July, 2021

DWP invites local authorities to take part in trial of exchanging information about care home admissions and funding via email rather than post

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2 July, 2021

Local authorities to receive new alerts about fluctuating non-state pensions through Verify Earnings and Pensions Service

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2 July, 2021

Treating child disability payment as a qualifying benefit for premiums and other payments where child relocates from Scotland to another part of the UK

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Government sets out proposals to simplify process for social tenants to escalate complaints to the Housing Ombudsman

Health and Care Bill receives its first reading in House of Commons

Bill to improve protections for tenants in the private rented sector introduced in NI Assembly

Cancellation of up to £1,500 of a student’s living costs loan liability in Wales in the academic year 2021/2022

Government confirms changes introduced today to provide more support for victims of domestic abuse at risk of homelessness

‘Additional resources’ put into universal credit should be maintained, say six Conservative former Work and Pensions Secretaries

Extra-statutory payments to be available to benefit claimants who failed to apply to EU Settlement Scheme by 30 June deadline

High Court rules that provision for refugees to make a backdated child tax credit claim from the date they sought asylum continues to apply where that date was before introduction of full service universal credit

Conversion of transitional SDP amount into universal credit transitional element

Consultation launched on increasing the upper age for NHS prescription exemptions in England so it aligns with state pension age

Number of homeless households placed in B&B temporary accommodation in England now more than four times what it was a decade ago

MSPs consider plans to make second coronavirus-related Carer’s Allowance Supplement double payment in December 2021

Employment case law round up

Government announces additional £2 million in Covid-19 funding for advice sector in England and Wales

MoJ provides update on advice partnerships across England and Wales funded as part of its £3.1 million Legal Support for Litigants in Person programme

National Audit Office to conduct investigation into systematic underpayment of state pension to women whose husbands reached pensionable age before 2008

DWP invites local authorities to take part in trial of exchanging information about care home admissions and funding via email rather than post

Local authorities to receive new alerts about fluctuating non-state pensions through Verify Earnings and Pensions Service

Treating child disability payment as a qualifying benefit for premiums and other payments where child relocates from Scotland to another part of the UK