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16 September, 2020 Open access

Contingency arrangements in the First-Tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic extended to March 2021

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16 September, 2020 Open access

Mayor of London calls for freeze on private rents for two years, as new analysis shows half a million Londoners potentially facing eviction

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15 September, 2020

Court of Appeal rejects challenge to increase in women’s state pension age

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15 September, 2020

DWP provides update on what it is doing to reimburse up to 130,000 married women who may have lost out on state pension entitlement as a result of its falure to apply an automatic uplift

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15 September, 2020

Nearly 8 million people in England have some form of housing need

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15 September, 2020 Open access

Labour Party leader calls for a ‘life raft’ of targeted support to replace the Job Retention Scheme while the UK remains in the ‘choppy waters’ of COVID-19

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15 September, 2020

New Presidential Guidance issued in relation to the use of the Welsh language in legal proceedings

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15 September, 2020

Property Chamber tribunal caseworkers approved to carry out all decisions that a judge may make except ‘substantive final decisions’

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15 September, 2020 Open access

PIP new claims and change of circumstances requests show gradual recovery to near-normal levels in quarter ending July 2020

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15 September, 2020 Open access

Black and minority ethnic workers have ‘shouldered more risk’ during coronavirus pandemic, says TUC

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15 September, 2020

Calculation and payment of housing benefit subsidy for 2019/2020 and 2020/2021

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14 September, 2020 Open access

Government’s strategy of ‘mass testing’ for COVID-19 will require ‘structured financial and social support’ to promote self-isolation and mitigate impacts on inequalities

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14 September, 2020 Open access

Government’s refusal to disregard COVID-19 compensation payments for means-tested benefit purposes is ‘lacking in reason and compassion’, says Shadow Secretary of State

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14 September, 2020 Open access

Now is not the time to bring more claimants into Jobcentres, says Public and Commercial Services Union

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14 September, 2020

Communities Minister announces extension to Northern Ireland Executive’s Child Poverty Strategy

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14 September, 2020

Scottish Government launches consultation on detailed proposals for the regulation of short-term lets

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14 September, 2020 Open access

New Presidential Guidance issued in relation to remote and in-person employment tribunal hearings during the COVID-19 pandemic

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14 September, 2020

Government’s failure to increase take-up of pension credit is costing health and social care systems around £4 billion per year, says Independent Age

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14 September, 2020 Open access

Targeted continuation of Job Retention Scheme needed to prevent surge in unemployment in ‘close contact’ job sectors, says JRF

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