News and case law

10 February, 2020

Errors linked to student income in housing benefit costing £40 million a year

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10 February, 2020

Miscellaneous amendments to Scotland’s council tax reduction scheme from April 2020

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10 February, 2020

DWP confirms work is underway to collect Internet Protocol address data from housing benefit claimants

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7 February, 2020

High Court rules that bereavement support payment eligibility criteria that exclude cohabiting parents from entitlement are incompatible with human rights law

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7 February, 2020

NAO finds that the 69 suicide cases investigated by DWP in the last six years is ‘highly unlikely’ to represent number it could have investigated

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7 February, 2020

More than a fifth of people in the UK live in poverty, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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7 February, 2020

Scottish Government confirms that children will not need to attend face-to-face assessment to secure entitlement to Child Disability Payment

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7 February, 2020

Scottish Government confirms that Disability Assistance for Older People will not include a mobility component

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7 February, 2020

Tribunal asked the wrong question when seeking to link cause of child’s night time care needs to a disability rather than focusing on reasonable requirement for attention

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7 February, 2020

Low Incomes Tax Reform Group seeks evidence on HMRC’s use of compliance powers including to recover tax credit debt direct from bank accounts

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7 February, 2020

DWP to launch 12 week pension credit take-up campaign on 10 February 2020

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7 February, 2020

Uprating of war pensions for 2020/2021

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Acas launches new guidance on non-disclosure agreements

StepChange launches new online information and guidance hub for those receiving ‘persistent debt’ letters

Court of Appeal considers whether a requirement to return to work following alleged failure to investigate grievances was a PCP for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010

Bill introduced in Wales to increase the minimum notice period for no fault evictions

Errors linked to student income in housing benefit costing £40 million a year

Miscellaneous amendments to Scotland’s council tax reduction scheme from April 2020

DWP confirms work is underway to collect Internet Protocol address data from housing benefit claimants

TUC calls for new legal duty on employers to actively prevent sexual harassment at work

Employment case law round up

High Court rules that bereavement support payment eligibility criteria that exclude cohabiting parents from entitlement are incompatible with human rights law

NAO finds that the 69 suicide cases investigated by DWP in the last six years is ‘highly unlikely’ to represent number it could have investigated

More than a fifth of people in the UK live in poverty, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Scottish Government confirms that children will not need to attend face-to-face assessment to secure entitlement to Child Disability Payment

Scottish Government confirms that Disability Assistance for Older People will not include a mobility component

Tribunal asked the wrong question when seeking to link cause of child’s night time care needs to a disability rather than focusing on reasonable requirement for attention

Low Incomes Tax Reform Group seeks evidence on HMRC’s use of compliance powers including to recover tax credit debt direct from bank accounts

DWP to launch 12 week pension credit take-up campaign on 10 February 2020

Four new employment-related private members Bills receive first reading in the House of Commons

Uprating of war pensions for 2020/2021