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5 June, 2019

Circumstances when liability for further education student tuition fee loans can be cancelled

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4 June, 2019

Scottish Commission on Social Security publishes first scrutiny report on draft young carer grant regulations

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3 June, 2019

Scottish Government welcomes UN poverty and human rights report and calls for radical action from UK Government

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3 June, 2019

Scottish local authorities spent £62.5 million on DHPs in 2018/2019, almost 6 per cent up on previous year

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3 June, 2019

Replacement of Healthy Start voucher scheme with Best Start Foods scheme in Scotland

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3 June, 2019

Right to Rent checks must be brought to an end, JCWI and more than 80 organisations demand

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3 June, 2019

Information requirements for private landlord registration applications in Scotland

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3 June, 2019

Employment case law round up

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3 June, 2019

MHCLG issues new version of ‘How to Rent’ guidance

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31 May, 2019

570,000 claimants repaying tax credit debt through universal credit

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31 May, 2019

Increased take up and wider eligibility rules for Scotland’s devolved benefits pose substantial risks to Scottish Budget

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31 May, 2019

Bailiffs' trade association to cease involvement in adjudicating complaints about members from 1 June 2019

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30 May, 2019

Past presence test for disability and carer’s benefits

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30 May, 2019

Mixed-age couples and entitlement to means-tested benefits

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30 May, 2019

Proportion of people paid below the Real Living Wage has not fallen despite increases in National Living Wage

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30 May, 2019

88 per cent of Work and Health Programme participants have not had a ‘job outcome’

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30 May, 2019

Council fails to take homelessness application from domestic violence victim

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30 May, 2019

Priority need must be extended to everyone who is homeless as a result of fleeing domestic violence, says APPG

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30 May, 2019

Average household income of poorest 20 per cent fell in 2017/2018 mainly due to fall in value of benefits

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