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29 May, 2020 Open access

TUC calls for extension of Self Employment Income Support Scheme

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29 May, 2020 Open access

Allocation of additional funding for local authorities to support cost of implementing COVID-19 related LHA changes

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28 May, 2020 Open access

Work and Pensions Committee questions Prime Minister about lack of support for people with ‘no recourse to public funds’

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28 May, 2020 Open access

Allowing electronic claims for state pension credit in Northern Ireland in response to coronavirus outbreak

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28 May, 2020 Open access

Citizens Advice calls on government to give workers who are ‘shielding’ due to COVID-19 an automatic right to be furloughed

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28 May, 2020 Open access

COVID-19 ‘Test and Trace’ programme will not be effective unless statutory sick pay is extended to all and increased to level of real Living Wage, says TUC

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28 May, 2020

Less than a quarter of households on universal credit in Scotland are receiving more frequent payments under Scottish choices

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28 May, 2020

Court of Appeal considers whether amount of service charges for repairs were 'reasonable' under section 19 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, where landlord failed to deduct expected third-party contribution

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28 May, 2020 Open access

Welsh Government announces ‘second phase’ of response to coronavirus outbreak so that everyone provided with emergency shelter will be rehoused

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27 May, 2020 Open access

‘Stark disparity’ in protections offered to different groups during COVID-19 crisis threatens a growth in existing inequalities, warns IPPR

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27 May, 2020 Open access

Number of London households affected by benefit cap doubles as a result of COVID-19-related benefit increases

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27 May, 2020

Social Security Advisory Committee sets out its strategic objectives for 2020/2021

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27 May, 2020 Open access

People deemed to be incapable of work for purposes of statutory sick pay

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27 May, 2020 Open access

Court of Appeal rules that COVID-19 related freeze on evictions also imposes freeze on eviction appeal proceedings

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27 May, 2020 Open access

Universal credit has passed its first test in the coronavirus crisis ‘but tougher challenges lie ahead’, says Resolution Foundation

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27 May, 2020

Provision to abolish right to buy schemes for housing association properties in Northern Ireland included in Housing (Amendment) Bill

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27 May, 2020

DWP issues guidance on the Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme

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27 May, 2020

Gender employment gap in Scotland fell by almost 2 per cent between 2009 and 2019

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26 May, 2020 Open access

Government brings forward and increases spending plans for provision of long-term supported housing for rough sleepers

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