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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.

27 November, 2020

More than eight out of ten claimants mandated to the Work and Health Programme have not achieved a ‘job outcome’

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27 November, 2020

Ensuring that EU social security co-ordination regulations cease to have effect in areas of Scottish devolved competence from 31 December 2020

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26 November, 2020

‘Major blow’ for claimants as government slips out announcement on next year’s benefit rates

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26 November, 2020

Growing numbers of people in or at risk of being pulled into poverty will have taken little solace from the plans laid out in the Chancellor’s Spending Review

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26 November, 2020

More than 3 per cent of the universal credit caseload had their benefit capped as at August 2020

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26 November, 2020

Treasury Secretary confirms annual uprating of tax credits, child benefit and guardian’s allowance

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26 November, 2020

Court of Appeal rules statutory overcrowding was not determinative as to whether a homeless applicant had obtained ‘settled’ accommodation and therefore whether the causal link to previous incidence of intentional homelessness had been broken

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26 November, 2020

Full roll-out of personal independence payment delayed again and is now nine years behind the original schedule

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26 November, 2020 Open access

Amendments to regulations setting out how a week’s pay is to be calculated for purposes of calculating statutory payments for furloughed workers in Northern Ireland

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26 November, 2020

Government’s plan to introduce a minimum award length for personal independence payment delayed until April 2021

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26 November, 2020

Ombudsman criticises council for failure to assess likely harm of move to cheaper care home after self-funder’s money ran out

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26 November, 2020

Ombudsman finds council failed to reassess self-funder’s increasing needs to maintain their home when their finances ran short

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25 November, 2020

Chancellor announces almost £3 billion funding for new Restart Programme to help more than a million unemployed people to find work

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25 November, 2020

Work and Pensions Secretary confirms benefit rate increases for 2021/2022

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25 November, 2020 Open access

Secretary of State confirms that increase to local housing allowance rates will be frozen in cash terms from 2021/2022

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25 November, 2020

Government confirms national living wage and national minimum wage rates from April 2021

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25 November, 2020

Amended DLA past presence test breached human rights of two severely disabled British Citizen children

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25 November, 2020 Open access

Government issues new Treasury Direction in relation to the third payment under the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme

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25 November, 2020 Open access

High Court considers vulnerability and homelessness as a result of ‘emergency’ in the context of priority need assessments and the COVID-19 pandemic

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