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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.

26 April, 2021

High Court rules that council’s queuing system for applicants owed the main housing duty who needed to move from unsuitable accommodation was unlawful

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26 April, 2021

Employment case law round up

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23 April, 2021

Ten per cent of universal credit awards had a deduction for a tax credit overpayment in December 2020

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23 April, 2021 Open access

Ombudsman criticises Medway Council for leaving vulnerable teenager to live in tent during Covid-19 crisis

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23 April, 2021

Claimant qualifies for highest-scoring descriptors under Activity 8 and Activity 10 if they are unable to accomplish what is involved in next highest-scoring descriptor

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23 April, 2021

DWP issues further guidance to clarify the operation of the debt respite ‘Breathing Space’ scheme as it relates to deductions from welfare benefits

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23 April, 2021

DWP’s response to pension underpayment issue affecting tens of thousands of women ‘is simply not good enough’

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22 April, 2021

Government suffers defeat in the Lords on vote on recourse to public funds for victims of domestic abuse

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22 April, 2021

Miscellaneous amendments to tax credit and child benefit legislation

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22 April, 2021 Open access

Further extension of period over which Covid-19-related easements to benefit rules in Northern Ireland remain in force

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22 April, 2021

Extending right not to be subject to detriment in health and safety cases to ‘gig economy’ workers in Northern Ireland

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22 April, 2021

Trussell Trust reports an alarming 128 per cent  rise in need for emergency food over the last five years

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22 April, 2021

More than 95,000 households in England were in temporary accommodation at 31 December 2020, according to new government statistics

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21 April, 2021

DWP plans to complete review exercise to correct its failure to apply automatic state pension uplift to certain married people, widows and over-80s by the end of 2023

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21 April, 2021

Public Law Project urges Office for Statistics Regulation to examine use of statistics in government’s ongoing judicial review reform

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21 April, 2021 Open access

MHCLG housing survey highlights changing circumstances of households in England through the Covid-19 pandemic

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21 April, 2021

Home Office issues guidance on amendments to Immigration Rules which added rough sleeping to the discretionary grounds for refusal or cancellation of permission to be in the UK

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21 April, 2021 Open access

Amendments to regulations setting out how a week’s pay is calculated for purposes of calculating statutory payments for furloughed workers

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20 April, 2021 Open access

Further extension of period over which Covid-19-related easements to benefit rules remain in force

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