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14 August, 2012

Department for Social Development issues call for evidence on work capability assessment in Northern Ireland

Responses to inform Year 3 Independent Review by Professor Harrington

14 August, 2012

Composition of tribunals hearing DLA and IB appeals in joined hearing

CDLA/1901/2011

13 August, 2012

DWP call centre staff strike over working conditions and targets

32 call centres across Great Britain affected as more than 6,000 members of the PCS union take action

10 August, 2012

Sure start maternity payments for subsequent multiple births and treatment of reclaimed burial plots for funeral payments

New DWP guidance

9 August, 2012

Right to reside / A8 national who had been self employed asylum seeker prior to EU accession in 2004

CIS/1331/2008

8 August, 2012

Welfare Reform (Further Provision) (Scotland) Act 2012 receives Royal Assent

New Act allows Scottish Ministers to make regulations following refusal of legislative consent for Welfare Reform Act 2012

8 August, 2012

Iain Duncan Smith announces launch of Universal Jobmatch from Autumn 2012

New job posting and matching service 'will benefit both jobseekers and employers by speeding up the recruitment process', says Secretary of State

8 August, 2012

Assessing eligibility for blue disabled parking badges in Wales following the introduction of personal independence payment

Consultation exercise launched by Welsh Government

8 August, 2012

693,000 claimants accepted on to Work Programme from June 2011 to January 2012

New DWP statistics also show that 90.7 per cent were on jobseeker's allowance and 8.5 per cent on employment and support allowance

7 August, 2012

Tribunal's errors in relation to adjournment for claimant to attend hearing; regulation 29; previous medical assessment; and raised descriptors

CE/331/2012

6 August, 2012

Whether government back-to-work schemes involved violation of claimants’ human rights

[2012] EWHC 2292 (Admin)

3 August, 2012

Claimant unable to attend tribunal hearing - refusal to adjourn breached natural justice

CDLA/1938/2011

3 August, 2012

Change of address is not a ground to terminate entitlement following suspension of benefit

CI/1222/2011

3 August, 2012

Winter fuel payments for people residing in an EEA country or Switzerland

New DWP guidance following European Court of Justice decision in Stewart

3 August, 2012

DWP consults on new discretionary housing payments manual

New guidance to take into account welfare reforms such as abolition of council tax benefit and introduction of universal credit

2 August, 2012

Admittance of late appeal where decisions not received by claimant

CH/2846/2011

2 August, 2012

Whether a day patient can be an ‘in-patient’ for the purpose of being treated as having limited capability for work

CE/618/2011

2 August, 2012

Atos Healthcare awarded two out of three regional contracts for personal independence payment medical assessments

Third contract goes to Capita with Northern Ireland still to be decided