Welfare rights news and case law

8 March, 2012

Disability employment services should focus on individuals rather than institutions, says DWP

Response to consultation on Sayce review outlines withdrawal of funding from Remploy and increased resources for Access to Work

8 March, 2012

Whether period before disease added to list of prescribed diseases should be taken into account in assessing disablement

CI/2239/2010

8 March, 2012

Housing benefit subsidy to local authorities

New HB guidance

7 March, 2012

House of Lords votes against government plans to remove welfare benefit appeals from scope of legal aid

Government Minister warns that amendments 'dismantle the central architecture' of the Legal Aid Bill

7 March, 2012

Government’s plan to remove child benefit from higher rate taxpayers was 'fatally flawed from the outset'

Child Poverty Action Group publishes new 'Save child benefit' report

7 March, 2012

Help with Health Service costs in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

7 March, 2012

Calculation of additional state pension in Northern Ireland

New statutory rules

6 March, 2012

Amendments to tribunal procedure rules

New statutory instrument

6 March, 2012

Uprating of pneumoconiosis compensation payments and mesothelioma lump sum payments in Northern Ireland

New statutory rules

6 March, 2012

Prescription of osteoarthritis of the knee in carpet fitters and carpet and floor layers as industrial disease

New statutory instrument

6 March, 2012

Assessment of local housing allowance at 30th percentile of available rents

New statutory instrument

6 March, 2012

Recovery of overpaid benefit

New statutory instrument

6 March, 2012

Payments by lenders to DWP for setting up mortgage direct payments

New statutory instrument

6 March, 2012

All prisoners claiming jobseeker's allowance to be mandated to Work Programme on 'day one' of release

DWP announces further details of scheme, including that Jobcentre Plus will process claims in prison and Work Programme providers will get £5,600 for getting prisoners into long term employment

6 March, 2012

Decision making process in finding that claim form had been posted to and received by DWP

CG/525/2011

5 March, 2012

Whether claimant who used stick to help rise to her feet satisfied bending and kneeling descriptors

CE/2709/2010

5 March, 2012

Whether DWP entitled to decide that claimant did not have LCW following negative tribunal decision / whether new claim was within 6 months of LCW determination

CE/103/2011

5 March, 2012

Charities and shopworker's union urge government to postpone April 2012 cut to working tax credit for couples

Open letter to Prime Minister says that increase in working hours requirement, with potential loss of £3,870 for 212,000 families, will increase poverty and only provide short term benefit to Treasury

5 March, 2012

Government reconsidering child benefit cut for higher rate tax payers

Treasury officials reported to be looking at ways to reduce perceived unfairness in current proposal