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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.

20 June, 2024

Freeholder’s available remedies for breach of settlement agreement included seeking forfeiture of lease

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20 June, 2024

Total value of council tax arrears in England increased by almost 10 per cent in 2023/2024, reaching a new high of more than £6 billion

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19 June, 2024

Number of council tax reduction recipients in Scotland increased in 2023/2024 following a record low in previous year

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18 June, 2024

Almost 80,000 households in Great Britain had their benefits capped as at February 2024

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18 June, 2024

250,000 PIP claims were registered in England and Wales in the three months to April 2024, the highest level since the benefit was introduced

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18 June, 2024

Bill introduced in Northern Ireland to provide for ‘administrative liability orders’ to speed up recovery of child maintenance arrears from parents who fail to pay

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17 June, 2024

High Court dismisses homeless refugee’s challenges to council’s decision he was not in priority need, and Home Office’s policy change that shortened the move-on period from asylum accommodation

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17 June, 2024

High Court rules that freeholder was not entitled to declaration that it could replace old block heating system with new one that would increase leaseholders’ repair and maintenance costs

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17 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024: Two-child limit will affect a further 670,000 children by the end of the next parliament

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17 June, 2024

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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14 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024: Child poverty campaigners call for Labour to abolish two-child limit as first step to meet manifesto commitment to reduce child poverty

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14 June, 2024

Provisions relating to national roll-out of carer support payment in Scotland

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13 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024 Manifesto round-up | Labour: Welfare Rights

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13 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024 Manifesto round-up | Labour: Housing

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13 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024 Manifesto round-up | Labour: Employment

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13 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024 Manifesto round-up | Labour: Community Care

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13 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024: Poorest fifth of working-age households have lost more than 14 per cent of their income since 2010 while pensioners have gained by £800 per year

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