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12 July, 2011

Government publishes consultation response on the future of child maintenance

Response includes commitment to reduced application charge for parents on benefits, and no charge for victims of domestic violence

12 July, 2011

National Audit Office qualifies social fund account for eighth consecutive year

Comptroller and Auditor General finds 'material levels of error' in discretionary social fund, funeral payments and, for first time, cold weather payments

11 July, 2011

DWP launches consultation into disability employment services

Government seeks views on whether support should be focused on the individual through schemes like Access to Work, rather than institutions like Remploy

11 July, 2011

Localisation of discretionary social fund will lead to 'post-code lottery for some of life's basic necessities', says Citizens Advice

Charity also tells MPs that it can see no advantages to localisation of council tax benefit

8 July, 2011

Local housing allowance / whether claimant had 'exclusive use' of two rooms / whether he shared common household with father

CH/107/2010

8 July, 2011

Tax credit fraud and error levels decreased in 2009-2010, according to National Audit Office

However, new report on HMRC accounts for 2010-2011 shows that overall level of tax credit debt continues to increase

8 July, 2011

Government launches Mobile Regional Taskforce to combat fraud in ‘high risk’ postcodes

'If you are fiddling the system, you will be caught', says Lord Freud

8 July, 2011

Extra back to work support for long term jobseeker’s allowance claimants

Minister for Employment announces small scale trial to see if extra support increases success in finding and keeping employment

7 July, 2011

Human rights / whether family should be awarded extra amount of LHA where two disabled daughters needed separate rooms

CH/1312/2010

6 July, 2011

Three in five local authorities think that local housing allowance changes will affect decisions about discretionary housing payments

New DWP research also finds that more than two thirds think they will make shorter awards

5 July, 2011

Social security and child support appeals up by 23 per cent on 2009/2010 and 72 per cent on 2008/2009

HM Courts & Tribunals Service annual statistics for 2010/2011 also show that, overall, 35 per cent of appeals found in favour of claimant

5 July, 2011

Work Programme now fully operational across the UK

Minister for Employment says that government expects to see substantial indications of success of programme from spring 2013

4 July, 2011

MPs recommend that non-resident parents be required to pay child maintenance through deductions from pay or bank account

New Work and Pensions Committee report also says that proposals to charge for maintenance services are excessive, complex and fall too heavily on parents with care

4 July, 2011

Disability Alliance launches legal challenge to personal independence payment

Letter of claim says that government has failed to measure negative impact of changes and that they do not comply with Equality Act

4 July, 2011

Communities Secretary warns Prime Minister that benefit cap likely to cost more than it saves

Leaked letter also says that cap, alongside other housing benefit changes, will lead to 40,000 families being made homeless

1 July, 2011

National Health Service travel expenses and remission of charges

New statutory instrument

1 July, 2011

Period in which claimant cannot make repeat discretionary social fund applications extended to one year

Pensions Minister announces change to social fund directions

29 June, 2011

Welfare to work provider survey finds that subcontractors concerned about financial viability of outcome based contracts

New DWP reseach report on Flexible New Deal commissioning