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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.

1 February, 2021

DWP looking into how it can use financial data to identify vulnerable claimants at source so it can tailor its debt collection strategies

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1 February, 2021 Open access

APPG on Poverty highlights disproportionate effect that removing the £20 universal credit ‘uplift’ would have on vulnerable groups

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1 February, 2021

Uprating of council tax reduction allowances and premiums in Scotland

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1 February, 2021 Open access

Practice Direction 55C updated to extend temporary provisions in relation to stayed possession proceedings

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1 February, 2021

Relationship between descriptors, and definition of key terms, in activity 8 ‘Reading and understanding signs, symbols and words’ and activity 10 ‘Making budgeting decisions’

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1 February, 2021 Open access

Scottish Government publishes guidance on local authority duties under the Unsuitable Accommodation Order

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1 February, 2021

Ensuring EEA nationals can continue to be awarded a funeral expenses payment in Northern Ireland where funeral takes place in the UK

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1 February, 2021

Employment case law round up

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29 January, 2021

Master of the Rolls sets out vision for ‘single online funnel’ for civil law disputes to pass through before being directed to appropriate resolution process

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29 January, 2021 Open access

Number of ‘employments’ furloughed under CJRS stood at 3.8 million at 31 December 2020

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29 January, 2021 Open access

Chancellor urged to extend furlough and self-employment support schemes beyond April 2021

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29 January, 2021

Total value of deferred payment agreements with local authorities for adult social care exceeded £230m at end of 2019/2020

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28 January, 2021

Acute distress caused as a result of 28 failings by the DWP and Capita materially contributed to death of claimant who took overdose, inquest finds

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28 January, 2021 Open access

Almost 4,000 calls to DWP Debt Management went unanswered in first week of January 2021

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28 January, 2021 Open access

Northern Ireland Executive’s commitment to introduce new welfare reform mitigations to be ‘stopped or significantly curtailed’ in 2021/2022

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28 January, 2021

Scottish Budget secures almost £3.6bn of social security and welfare payments in 2021/2022

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28 January, 2021 Open access

Fewer than 10,000 Kickstart job placements have been made available for Jobcentre Plus work coaches to refer eligible young people to

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28 January, 2021

Housing Ombudsman finds severe maladministration after affordable housing provider left family without effective heating and hot water system for more than eight months

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28 January, 2021 Open access

Almost 70,000 households in England were homeless or threatened with homelessness between July and September 2020

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