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6 April, 2021 Open access

New JobStart Scheme launched in Northern Ireland to fund work opportunities for 16 to 24 year olds

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1 April, 2021

Eligibility criteria for school age element of Scottish best start grant are not incompatible with European Convention on Human Rights

More Welfare rights case law

1 April, 2021

DWP to introduce new Train and Progress initiative which will allow universal credit claimants to take part in up to 12 weeks full-time training

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1 April, 2021 Open access

Temporary Insolvency Practice Direction issued to extend period over which court processes are adapted to assist court users during the continuing Covid-19 pandemic

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31 March, 2021 Open access

Presidential Guidance issued on hearing Employment Tribunal cases remotely ‘by default’ in 2021/2022

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31 March, 2021 Open access

Repeated last minute extensions to ban on evictions must be replaced by a coherent exit plan out of lockdown, say MPs

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31 March, 2021

Increase in banding rates for Employment Tribunal awards for injury to feelings

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31 March, 2021

Agricultural Wages Board for Northern Ireland agrees 2021/2022 agricultural pay rates

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30 March, 2021 Open access

Total number of households subject to the benefit cap has more than doubled during Covid-19 outbreak

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30 March, 2021 Open access

High Court rules that County Court judge was wrong to dismiss claim that local authority had granted tenancy or licence to rough sleeper accommodated in response to Covid-19 pandemic

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30 March, 2021 Open access

Delays and increasing backlogs in the Employment Tribunal risk undermining ‘fundamental aims’ of our justice system, Peers warn

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30 March, 2021

Scottish Campaign for Rights to Social Security publishes manifesto for next Scottish Parliament

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29 March, 2021 Open access

DWP confirms timetable for resumption of face-to-face assessments for health and disability benefits

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29 March, 2021

Radical rethink of Scottish social security policy needed to ‘heal the wounds’ of Covid-19 without further widening inequalities

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29 March, 2021

High Court considers whether to make a mandatory order requiring a council to provide suitable accommodation to a disabled woman who had been in unsuitable temporary accommodation for five years

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29 March, 2021 Open access

Debt ‘roadmap’ urgently needed for the 1 in 3 adults financially worse off as a direct result of Covid-19

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29 March, 2021

Social security information-sharing powers in Scotland relating to GPs, local authorities and accredited disability vehicle schemes

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29 March, 2021

Benefit uprating 2021/2022 in Northern Ireland

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29 March, 2021

High Court of Northern Ireland considers whether mortgagee must add the Crown to proceedings before claiming possession of a property that was held and then disclaimed by trustee in bankruptcy

More Debt case law

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