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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.

30 April, 2021

Amendment of prescribed form for notice seeking possession of a property let on an assured tenancy or assured agricultural occupancy

More Housing news

30 April, 2021

Government’s judicial review reforms would weaken citizens’ ability to get a fair and just outcome when the state acts unlawfully

More Welfare rights news

29 April, 2021 Open access

Permission granted for judicial review challenging government decision not to apply £20 per week Covid-19 ‘uplift’ to ESA claimants

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29 April, 2021

Government confirms more support for domestic abuse victims and their children as Domestic Abuse Bill receives Royal Assent

More Housing news

29 April, 2021

More than half of universal credit claimants receiving housings costs for private rented accommodation have rents that exceed LHA rates

More Welfare rights news

29 April, 2021

Insolvency Service issues new individual voluntary arrangement protocol

More Debt news

28 April, 2021

DWP says it hopes to lay proposal for draft Remedial Order extending entitlement to widowed parent’s and bereavement benefits to cohabitees with children before Parliament’s Summer Recess

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28 April, 2021

Cabinet Office confirms that work is ‘well underway’ on the design of a new single sign-on and digital identity assurance system to succeed gov.uk Verify

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28 April, 2021

Amendment of regulations in Northern Ireland relating to how a week’s pay is calculated for purposes of calculating statutory payments for furloughed workers

More Employment news

28 April, 2021

High Court considers proper approach to determining ‘ordinary residence’ disputes over responsibility for Mental Health Act 1983 after-care following repeat hospital detentions

More Community care case law

28 April, 2021

DWP confirms initial funding allocations for the second year of its Housing Benefit Award Accuracy Initiative

More Welfare rights news

28 April, 2021

Department for Communities publishes annual report on social security decision making and financial accuracy

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27 April, 2021

DWP exploring an approach to ‘encourage’ those who will benefit from moving to universal credit to do so voluntarily

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27 April, 2021

Fees in connection with appeals under the Breathing Space debt respite scheme

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27 April, 2021

Between them, Scottish local authorities spent just over half of their Scottish Welfare Fund budget allocation in the first nine months of 2020/2021

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26 April, 2021

DWP confirms plans to make first referrals to Restart Programme from July 2021

More Employment news

26 April, 2021

Private hire firm refused permission to appeal Employment Appeal Tribunal’s decision that drivers are entitled to workers’ rights

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