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14 February, 2012

Employers to be paid for every 18–24 year old they employ from the Work Programme

Wage subsidy will encourage employers to take a chance on a young person, says Work and Pensions Minister

14 February, 2012

How government programmes can most effectively and efficiently enable unemployed people to enter sustainable self-employment

New research published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

14 February, 2012

Welfare Reform Bill returns to the House of Lords

Prolonged 'ping pong' between Lords and Commons still possible, despite government having cited 'financial privilege'

14 February, 2012

Whether overpayment recovery decision violated claimant’s human rights

[2012] ECHR 255

10 February, 2012

Up to £2.93bn in pension credit unclaimed each year

DWP concerned that more than a million pensioners could be missing out on up to £137 per week, and related cold weather payments

10 February, 2012

DWP consults on mandatory consideration of revision before appeal

New system, designed to deliver 'timely, proportionate and effective justice for claimants', to start from April 2013

10 February, 2012

Flat rate introduction year for purposes of calculating additional state pension in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

10 February, 2012

Whether landlord entitled to appeal against housing benefit decisions in respect of former tenants

[2012] EWCA Civ 84

9 February, 2012

MPs question decision to award five Work Programme contracts to A4E despite 'abysmal' performance on Pathways to Work

However, DWP tells Public Accounts Committee that it was not possible to look at past performance of companies who had previous welfare to work contracts

9 February, 2012

Right to reside / whether worker registration certificate was retrospective to start of employment

CJSA/2621/2011

9 February, 2012

Hearing descriptor / whether need to ask for occasional repetition in order to undertand someone in busy street meant that descriptor 11(e) satisfied

CIB/837/2011

9 February, 2012

Right to reside and self-employment

CSJSA/563/2011

8 February, 2012

Council tax benefit / need for parties to co-operate generally with tribunal

CH/1122/2010

8 February, 2012

DWP research shows backlog of more than four months in work capability assessments

Research also show that 35,000 people who applied for ESA before May last year are still waiting to be assessed

7 February, 2012

Cabinet Office recommends extension of Welfare Reform Bill data sharing provisions across government

New Fraud, Error and Debt Taskforce report on tackling debt owed to government

7 February, 2012

Government 'families tsar' concerned that vulnerable families will be 'caught out' by the benefit cap

Families with disabled children particularly at risk, says head of Working Families Everywhere

6 February, 2012

Whether tribunal shoud have adjourned to obtain medical evidence where IB papers lost / burden of proof on Secretary of State to show grounds for supersession

CIB/146/2011

6 February, 2012

Whether tribunal shoud have adjourned to obtain medical evidence where IB papers lost / burden of proof on Secretary of State to show grounds for supersession

CIB/147/2011