Welfare rights news and case law

14 September, 2010

National Health Service travel expenses and remission of charges in Scotland

New statutory instrument

14 September, 2010

Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007

New commencement order

13 September, 2010

Proposed cuts to housing benefit will result in higher levels of poverty, debt, rent arrears and homelessness

Citizens Advice response to SSAC consultation calls for local housing allowance cap to be delayed until October 2011

13 September, 2010

Welfare to work contractors have universally failed 'by considerable margin' to meet contractual targets

New Public Accounts Committee report on support to incapacity benefits claimants

13 September, 2010

Judicial review of Upper Tribunal decisions in Scotland

[2010] CSIH 78

13 September, 2010

ESA changes to deliver £2.5bn savings by 2014/2015

Reform of 'employment support allowance' is a particular priority, says Chancellor in leaked letter to Work and Pensions Secretary

10 September, 2010

ESA tests should not be made more stringent in current employment market

CPAG response to SSAC consultation

10 September, 2010

Further £4bn to be cut from welfare spending

Savings to be made in addition to £11bn announced in the Emergency Budget

8 September, 2010

Whether a decision on who to pay LHA to is appealable and whether landlord can appeal / payment to landlord for period already paid to claimant

CH/2731/2009

8 September, 2010

Correct approach to interpretation and application of ESA descriptors / application of that approach to manual dexterity descriptors

CE/313/2010

8 September, 2010

Satisfaction with Pension, Disability and Carers Service amongst ethnic minority claimants

New DWP research report that explores lower levels of satisfaction amongst BME groups

7 September, 2010

Supersession of incapacity benefit award on grounds other than medical evidence

CIB/1345/2009

7 September, 2010

Entitlement to maternity allowance whilst absent from the UK

CSG/192/2010

7 September, 2010

No increase in student disregards for books, equipment and travel for academic year 2010/2011

New HB guidance

7 September, 2010

Increase in higher permitted earnings limit from October 2010

New statutory instrument

7 September, 2010

Higher rate mobility component of DLA for claimant using crutches

[2010] EWCA Civ 962

6 September, 2010

Housing benefit cut for long term unemployed would affect at least 194,000 claimants says TUC

New research suggests that lone parents, disabled people and the recently homeless amongst those most likely to lose out

6 September, 2010

Guidance on the prescription test for osteoarthritis of the knee in coalminers (PD A14)

CI/2980/2009

3 September, 2010

Whether tribunal decision perverse

CDLA/3121/2009