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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.

28 January, 2021

DWP issues revised uprating guidance in place of earlier version that ‘contained a number of errors’

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27 January, 2021

Court of Appeal rules that a local authority can only recover possession during fixed term of Flexible Tenancy if tenancy has forfeiture clause and termination order has been obtained

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27 January, 2021

Regulatory reform needed to deal with misleading practices in promoting debt solutions, says StepChange

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27 January, 2021 Open access

TUC calls on government to urgently extend Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to safeguard jobs

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27 January, 2021

Local housing allowance rates in Northern Ireland frozen in 2021/2022

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26 January, 2021

Removal of SDP Gateway and eligibility for transitional SDP element in universal credit for new claimants on or after 27 January 2021

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26 January, 2021 Open access

Expenditure on crisis grants in Scotland up by more than 20 per cent compared to same period last year

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26 January, 2021 Open access

Government issues new Treasury Direction in relation to extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to the end of April 2021

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26 January, 2021

Business Secretary reiterates that the government ‘will not reduce workers’ rights’

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25 January, 2021

Welsh Government launches social care white paper and consultation on ‘rebalancing’ care and support

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25 January, 2021 Open access

Fewer than 2,000 young people have actually started new roles via the government’s Kickstart scheme, despite the ‘creation’ of 120,000 new jobs

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25 January, 2021 Open access

Almost 1 in 10 workers have been ‘fired and rehired’ since start of the Covid crisis

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25 January, 2021 Open access

Self-employed tax credit claimants who are unable to report their final income for 2019/2020 by 31 January 2021 should do so ‘as soon as possible’

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25 January, 2021

Employment case law round up

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22 January, 2021

High Court rules that requirement for universal credit claimants to pay childcare costs upfront before receiving childcare costs element is unlawful

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22 January, 2021 Open access

DWP is delivering more than 2,500 pieces of IT equipment a week to ensure that all its staff are able to work from home

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22 January, 2021

Reports that the government is planning a bonfire of employment rights ‘could not be further from the truth’

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