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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.

29 March, 2021

Employment case law round up

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26 March, 2021

Supreme Court rules that Asda shopworkers are entitled to compare themselves with workers in distribution centres for purposes of equal pay claim

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26 March, 2021

DWP identifies 1,400 self-employed women who submitted a new maternity allowance claim between 2015 and 2017 who may have been underpaid in error

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26 March, 2021

DWP makes determination that ‘relevant threshold’ for purposes of calculating surplus earnings under universal credit will stay at £2,500 until 31 March 2022

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26 March, 2021

Senior President of Tribunals issues Practice Direction authorising Employment Tribunal legal officers to carry out specified functions

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26 March, 2021 Open access

Work and Pensions Committee seeks information about DWP’s plans for coronavirus-related measures that are due to expire in May 2021

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26 March, 2021

Government announces that Quarry House in Leeds is to have a ministerial presence as part of plan to establish second DWP headqurters

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26 March, 2021

Child disability payment eligibility criteria and claims and payment rules

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26 March, 2021

Cross-party Parliamentary Commission needed to inform the development of a government strategy to tackle poverty and destitution

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26 March, 2021

TUC and employment rights lawyers warn of ‘huge gaps’ in law relating to use of artificial intelligence at work

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26 March, 2021

Whether substantial works to the structure and exterior of a block of flats fell within the definition of 'specified repairs' in the lease such that the leaseholders were liable for the cost of carrying them out

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26 March, 2021

NHS Digital data review highlights fall in number and proportion of older people receiving state-supported long-term care in the community over last five years

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26 March, 2021

NHF highlights DWP work to simplify the universal credit verification process for April 2021 rent changes

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26 March, 2021

IIAC decides not to recommend prescription of cancer in firefighters for industrial injuries disablement benefit purposes

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26 March, 2021

Increase of limits applying in 2021/2022 to certain awards of employment tribunals and other sums payable under employment legislation in Northern Ireland

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26 March, 2021

Scottish Government publishes discussion paper on the future development of Scottish Carer’s Assistance

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25 March, 2021 Open access

IIAC decides not to recommend prescription of Covid-19 for occupational exposure ‘at this stage’

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25 March, 2021

Government consults on asylum reforms including new ‘temporary protection status’ with no recourse to public funds

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25 March, 2021

Despite previous warnings, neither the MOJ or HMCTS have a firm grip on the data they need to understand the effectiveness or impact of the court reform programme

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