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3 November, 2011

Vital for DLA mobility component, and its successor under PIP, to be retained for people in residential care, says Low Review

Review also finds no evidence of overlap in support from DLA mobility component and that offered by local authorities

2 November, 2011

Early findings of pension credit payment study

New DWP research summary finds that majority of participants did not go on to make successful claim

2 November, 2011

Sanctions and hardship payments under universal credit

Lord Freud sets out details during House of Lords Welfare Reform Bill 2011 committee stage

1 November, 2011

Changes to the shared accommodation rate from January 2012

New HB guidance

1 November, 2011

Government to move 12 million claimants onto universal credit by 2017, says Iain Duncan Smith

Secretary of State sets out timetable for transition to new benefit

1 November, 2011

Claimant who had died / whether appeal could be heard where there was no appointee

CH/3472/2005

1 November, 2011

Social fund cold weather payments in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

1 November, 2011

Housing benefit for claimants in ‘supported living facility’

CH/3452/2005

31 October, 2011

Payment of work related activity component during assessment phase where claimant is a 'work or training beneficiary'

CE/52/2011

31 October, 2011

Whether alcohol and drug dependency constitute ‘mental condition’

CE/437/2011

31 October, 2011

Legal aid for benefit appeals and reviews is ‘vital to success of welfare reform’

Group of 24 national charities urges MPs to support amendment to Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

31 October, 2011

Benefit deductions for fines to increase to maximum of £25 under universal credit

David Cameron says that current maximum of £5 is 'much too soft'

28 October, 2011

Prescribed disease 14 / osteoarthritis of the knee in coal miners / claimant with knee joint replacement

CI/2407/2010

28 October, 2011

Medical assessment of claimant wearing sling / application of descriptors where only one arm and hand can be used

CE/2799/2010

27 October, 2011

Social fund cold weather payments

New DWP guidance

27 October, 2011

Exporting disability living allowance, carer’s allowance and attendance allowance within the EU

New DWP guidance

27 October, 2011

Circumstances in which decision maker should consider applying for strike out of appeal to First-tier Tribunal

New DWP guidance

26 October, 2011

62 per cent of completed work capability assessments find claimant ‘fit for work’

New statistics also show that 39 per cent of those found fit for work have had appeal heard by tribunal and that 38 per cent of those appeals successful

25 October, 2011

DWP and HMRC top list of most complained about public bodies in 2010/2011

New Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report also finds complaint handling across government to be 'inconsistent, haphazard and unaccountable'