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19 April, 2018

Government sets out timetable for review of PIP claims affected by High Court judgment

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19 April, 2018

Private tenants who complain about poor housing conditions need greater legal protections, say MPs

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19 April, 2018

Claimants with a disability will have the right to access advocacy support under the Social Security (Scotland) Bill

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19 April, 2018

Government responds to Select Committees’ report and draft Bill on bogus ‘self-employment’

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19 April, 2018

Around 25 per cent of ESA appeals had a presenting officer in attendance between April and December 2017

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19 April, 2018

Scottish Government says it does not support an increase in the six-month eligibility period for benefit claims based on terminal illness

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19 April, 2018

DWP should allow PIP to be used to lease or buy assistive technology in the same way as it can be used to lease a car

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18 April, 2018

Government does not consider that greater use of split payments of universal credit can help victims of domestic abuse

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18 April, 2018

Motion to ‘regret’ that tenants will not have access to rogue landlord database defeated in Lords

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18 April, 2018

Ombudsman finds council unlawfully charged for first six weeks of intermediate care

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18 April, 2018

Human cost of social care crisis revealed in new Leonard Cheshire report

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18 April, 2018

Green v Mears Ltd

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17 April, 2018

Two child policy may give claimants 'an opportunity to talk about something that they might never have had before'

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17 April, 2018

More single parents are at risk of sanctions under universal credit, including those with very young children and those in work

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17 April, 2018

More than a quarter of the 2 million universal credit claims made since April 2013 failed to result in a 'start' on the benefit

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17 April, 2018

Assistance to set up and remove a feeding line can amount to assistance with managing a therapeutic source to take nutrition

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17 April, 2018

Miscellaneous amendments to universal credit in Northern Ireland

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17 April, 2018

Indeterminate tenancies would help bring security to increasing numbers of younger private renters

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16 April, 2018

Welfare reforms are exacerbating youth homelessness, according to Homeless Link

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