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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.

16 October, 2017

Work and Pensions Committee questions whether Secretary of State's announcement on advance payments was 'restatement of existing policy'

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16 October, 2017

Government agrees to assess feasibility of issuing warnings rather than sanctions for first offences

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16 October, 2017

Retention of entitlement to ESA and universal credit by young claimants whilst undertaking training schemes and traineeships

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16 October, 2017

Treasury Committee launches inquiry into the student loan system

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16 October, 2017

Government announces £11.7 million new burdens funding to meet duties in Homelessness Reduction Act

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16 October, 2017

Government responds to Public Accounts Committee report ‘Integration of Health and Social Care’

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16 October, 2017

HMRC confident that tax credit payments have been reinstated in all cases where entitlement has been confirmed following Concentrix contract

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13 October, 2017

Around 1.9 million privately renting households are entitled to less housing benefit as a result of reforms introduced since 2011

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13 October, 2017

New Supported Housing Allowance could take most schemes outside the need for local top-up funding

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13 October, 2017

Payment cards are being used for direct payments in a way that limits choice and control

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13 October, 2017

CQC needs to overcome issues with the timeliness of some of its regulation activities, says NAO

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13 October, 2017

Number of homeless older people set to double by 2025, warns Local Government Association

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13 October, 2017

Communities Committee launches inquiry into local authority powers to tackle ‘rogue landlords’

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12 October, 2017

Manchester to receive £3.8 million to develop homelessness and rough sleeping initiatives

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12 October, 2017

Matthew Taylor backs MPs’ call for legislation to strengthen workers’ hand against abusive employers

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12 October, 2017

New pre-action protocol for debt claims

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11 October, 2017

DWP announces planned retirement of Permanent Secretary Sir Robert Devereux

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