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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 February, 2024

More than eight million people across the UK need debt advice and another 12 million are living on the edge

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29 February, 2024

Tax credits, child benefit and guardian’s allowance uprating 2024/2025

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29 February, 2024

APPG welcomes change to homelessness guidance in relation to the provision of cots for children under 2 in temporary accommodation

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29 February, 2024

Increase in rates of compensation paid under the scheme established by the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979

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29 February, 2024

Regulator sets out new consumer standards to drive improvements in social housing

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29 February, 2024

Reciprocal arrangements in the field of social security between the United Kingdom and Gibraltar

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29 February, 2024

DWP publishes findings from an early evaluation of DHPs commissioned to better understand recipients’ experiences

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28 February, 2024

Concern that government’s 'better deal for renters' could be being transformed into a Landlord Bill of Rights

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28 February, 2024

‘Relevant threshold’ for purposes of calculating surplus earnings under universal credit to stay at £2,500 until 31 March 2025   

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28 February, 2024

Uprating of mesothelioma lump sum payments from April 2024

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28 February, 2024

Scottish Budget 2024/2025 ‘stalls progress’ on child poverty in Scotland

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28 February, 2024

Scottish Government estimates that 100,000 children will be kept out of relative poverty in 2024/2025 as a result of its policies

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27 February, 2024

DWP needs to do more to understand why one in five legacy benefit claimants are not switching to universal credit under managed migration

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27 February, 2024

DWP’s plan to speed up managed migration to universal credit is ‘downright dangerous’ for claimants

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27 February, 2024

Extent of homelessness in Scotland continues to rise across majority of measures with more than 15,000 households in temporary accommodation as at September 2023

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27 February, 2024

Despite additional funding in Welsh Government’s Final Budget 2024/2025, more investment is needed to tackle housing crisis in Wales

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26 February, 2024

Government urged to reconsider its plans to reintroduce employment tribunal fees

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26 February, 2024

DWP issues reminder that pension credit claims made by 5 March 2024 could lead to entitlement to extra £299 cost of living payment due to backdating rules

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26 February, 2024

Increase of limits applying to certain awards of employment tribunals and other sums payable under employment legislation in Great Britain

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