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18 January, 2023

Tribunal hearing appeal against HMRC decision to terminate tax credits following claim for universal credit did not have jurisdiction to consider whether DWP was entitled to be satisfied that basic universal credit conditions were met

His Majesty's Revenue & Customs v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and SA (TC)
[2022] UKUT 350 (AAC)
UA-2020-000563-TC
Reported as [2023] AACR 4

18 January, 2023

Survivors of domestic abuse to be given option for Child Maintenance Service to collect and make payments on their behalf

However, Gingerbread CEO says that it is 'extremely disappointing' that government has not committed to exempting survivors of abuse from 'Collect and Pay' charges amounting to 4 per cent of maintenance collected

17 January, 2023

Court of Appeal upholds High Court ruling that Secretary of State did not act unlawfully in deciding not to uprate legacy benefits in line with universal credit from 6 April 2021

T & Ors v Secretary of State for Work & Pensions [2023] EWCA Civ 24

17 January, 2023

More than 750,000 universal credit households with at least one person in work had deductions from their award in August 2022

New DWP figures also show that average deduction from August 2022 award for those households was £70

17 January, 2023

DWP says that statistics on processing times for universal credit WCAs could only be provided ‘at disproportionate cost’

Written answer from Minister follows former Work and Pensions Secretary's July 2022 statement that there are 'currently no plans' to develop official statistics on universal credit WCAs

17 January, 2023

DWP issues guidance to local authorities on housing benefit uprating for financial year ending March 2024

New circular includes information on timing of housing benefit uprating and how uprating of other benefits should be applied in housing benefit assessments

16 January, 2023

UK’s social security system is failing to meet people’s needs, driving rising poverty rates, and disproportionately impacting people with protected characteristics

Submissions from more than 70 civil society organisations will begin process of 'holding government to account' in lead up to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' review of the UK

16 January, 2023

UK social security system is failing to provide enough adequate, accessible or fair support

Advised by a cross-party commission of experts, Bright Blue think thank sets out a 'pathway of reform' including a new 'minimum living' income recommended by the SSAC, and a new, higher-level and time-limited contribution element in universal credit

16 January, 2023

Exemption from requirement to satisfy habitual residence test or past presence test for Irish citizens arriving in Great Britain from Ukraine

New DWP guidance

13 January, 2023

More than 600,000 universal credit households with someone assessed as having LCW had deductions from their award in August 2022

New DWP figures also show that 135,000 households that were entitled to a disabled child element had a deduction in the same month

13 January, 2023

Independent Commission on the Future of Employment Support seeks evidence to develop proposals to reform the UK’s employment support and services system

Commission is looking in particular at how support is organised at a national and local level, and the role and function of Jobcentre Plus and wider contracted or commissioned support

13 January, 2023

Miscellaneous amendments to council tax reduction schemes in England for 2023/2024

New statutory instrument also provides for the uprating of figures used to calculate reductions under the scheme for pensioners

12 January, 2023

Government expected to publish health and disability White Paper before the Spring budget setting out ‘ambitious and extensive’ reforms

Reports that plans for change being considered include reforming or scrapping the WCA, and allowing people to keep claiming sickness benefits after returning to work

12 January, 2023

Tribunal correctly assessed that claimant could not establish ‘exceptional circumstances’ to enable PIP appeal, prompted by an unsuccessful LEAP review, outside 13-month absolute time limit

GJ v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 340 (AAC)
UA-2021-001099-CPIP

11 January, 2023

Contracts for current PIP health assessments extended to March 2024

However, DWP Permanent Secretary advises that aim is to have new contracts under Health Transformation Programme in place by March 2023 to allow a year for transition

11 January, 2023

DWP identifies a further 300,000 people who may have been underpaid state pension

As a result, DWP Permanent Secretary says LEAP exercise to identify who has been underpaid and to issue arrears will take an extra year

11 January, 2023

Welsh Government confirms its spending plans for 2023/2024 do not include funding to continue its fuel support payment scheme

Minister for Social Justice says decision has been made as a result of the UK Government's Autumn Statement 2022 failing to give Wales enough money to 'adequately help Welsh people’

11 January, 2023

Increase in the universal credit administrative earnings threshold in Northern Ireland from 30 January 2023

New statutory rule

11 January, 2023

Regulations introduced to freeze local housing allowance rates for 2023/2024 at their 2020/2021 levels in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule