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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.

6 February, 2020

Scottish Budget commits to delivery of social security assistance with total forecast expenditure of more than £3 billion in 2020/2021

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6 February, 2020

Welfare mitigation payments in Northern Ireland will not be interrupted if legislation to extend the measures beyond March 2020 is delayed

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6 February, 2020

National roll-out of NHS electronic prescription checking service will not cover exemption based on receipt of DWP benefits

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6 February, 2020

Removal of end date for transitional addition to ESA linked to awards following entitlement to previous incapacity benefits

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6 February, 2020

Welfare benefit uprating 2020/2021

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6 February, 2020

Provision of Personal Care Bill receives first reading in the Lords

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6 February, 2020

Goods Mortgages Bill receives first reading in the Lords

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6 February, 2020

Number of benefit capped households on universal credit exceed those on housing benefit for the first time

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5 February, 2020

Government says that £500 million cost of delay to universal credit roll-out is due to extra 900,000 claimants being eligible for transitional protection

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5 February, 2020

UK Statistics Authority Chair agrees that PM’s claim that universal credit has already succeeded in getting 200,000 people into jobs was incorrect

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5 February, 2020

Supreme Court dismisses Northern Ireland Attorney General’s attempt to challenge roll-out of universal credit, holding that process used did not raise a ‘devolution issue’

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5 February, 2020

Northern Ireland Communities Minister ends practice of publishing names of people convicted of benefit fraud

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5 February, 2020

LHA rates now cover just 13 per cent of private rents

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5 February, 2020

Estimated number of deaths of people experiencing homelessness in Scotland increased by 19 per cent in 2018

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5 February, 2020

Government launches consultation on decriminalising TV licence evasion

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5 February, 2020

93 per cent of English councils plan to increase council tax by more than 1.5 per cent in 2020/2021, says LGiU

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5 February, 2020

Treatment of ex-gratia payments to former child migrants in the financial assessment of contributions towards care and support charges

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