News and case law

23 March, 2020 Open access

Sickness and disability benefit reviews and reassessments suspended for the next three months as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

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23 March, 2020 Open access

Amendment of SSP regulations in Northern Ireland as a result of updated public health guidance on coronavirus (COVID-19)

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23 March, 2020

Tribunal erred in law by considering whether claimant was properly referred to the Work Programme when this was not an issue raised on the appeal

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23 March, 2020

DWP issues guidance on how additional £40 million DHP funding for 2020/2021 will be allocated to local authorities in England and Wales

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23 March, 2020

Housing benefit subsidy limits for Welsh local authorities in 2020/2021

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21 March, 2020 Open access

Government publishes further details of its ‘Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme’

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20 March, 2020 Open access

Government announces new employment support package and series of benefit changes for people affected by coronavirus

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20 March, 2020 Open access

Government launches online ‘isolation note’ for employees to provide evidence that they have been advised to self-isolate due to coronavirus (COVID-19)

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20 March, 2020

DWP has used discretion to waive universal credit overpayment recovery in just eight cases over last three years

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20 March, 2020

DWP has identified almost 100,000 fraudulent universal credit advance claims worth between £100-£150 million

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20 March, 2020 Open access

Contingency Arrangements in the First-Tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

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20 March, 2020

Uprating of mesothelioma lump sum payments in Northern Ireland from April 2020

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19 March, 2020 Open access

Coronavirus Bill, that includes power to pay SSP from day one, given its first reading in the House of Commons

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19 March, 2020

DWP issues sample letter that will be sent to PIP claimants considered to be the least likely to benefit from MH and RJ review exercise

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Sickness and disability benefit reviews and reassessments suspended for the next three months as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

Amendment of SSP regulations in Northern Ireland as a result of updated public health guidance on coronavirus (COVID-19)

Failure to maintain Debt Arrangement Scheme payments in Scotland will not lead to revocation of the Arrangement if causally linked to coronavirus

Tribunal erred in law by considering whether claimant was properly referred to the Work Programme when this was not an issue raised on the appeal

DWP issues guidance on how additional £40 million DHP funding for 2020/2021 will be allocated to local authorities in England and Wales

Housing benefit subsidy limits for Welsh local authorities in 2020/2021

Employment case law round up

Government publishes further details of its ‘Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme’

Government announces new employment support package and series of benefit changes for people affected by coronavirus

Provisions relating to social care in the Coronavirus Bill will ‘effectively suspend or downgrade almost all social care duties’

Government launches online ‘isolation note’ for employees to provide evidence that they have been advised to self-isolate due to coronavirus (COVID-19)

DWP has used discretion to waive universal credit overpayment recovery in just eight cases over last three years

DWP has identified almost 100,000 fraudulent universal credit advance claims worth between £100-£150 million

Contingency Arrangements in the First-Tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Employment Tribunal in-person hearings will be converted to case management hearings by phone or other electronic means from 23 March 2020

Vagrancy (Repeal) Bill 2019-21 receives first reading in House of Commons

Uprating of mesothelioma lump sum payments in Northern Ireland from April 2020

Coronavirus Bill, that includes power to pay SSP from day one, given its first reading in the House of Commons

DWP issues sample letter that will be sent to PIP claimants considered to be the least likely to benefit from MH and RJ review exercise