Welfare rights news and case law

8 March, 2010

Amounts payable under the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) Northern Ireland Order 1979

New statutory rule

4 March, 2010

Replacing sick notes with ‘fit notes’ from Spring 2010 in Northern Ireland

New Statutory Rule

4 March, 2010

Miscellaneous amendments to social security legislation

New statutory instrument

4 March, 2010

Maximum amount of additional state pension where pensioner inherits pension on death of their spouse

New DWP guidance

4 March, 2010

Government sets new targets for Access to Work programme

Guaranteed places available to those with mental health conditions and learning disabilities

3 March, 2010

Benefit rates should be frozen to enable earnings disregards to be increased to sixteen times the minimum wage

New report from the Policy Exchange thinktank

3 March, 2010

Right time housing benefit performance indicator

New DWP guidance

2 March, 2010

Transfer to employment and support allowance could cause serious reductions in income for thousands

Government has failed to fully understood the impact of its proposals says Low Incomes Tax Reform Group

2 March, 2010

Impact of increase in women’s state pension age from April 2010

DWP issues reminder to local authority housing benefit staff

2 March, 2010

Extension of statutory paternity pay and leave from 2011

New statutory instrument

2 March, 2010

Earnings factors and thresholds from April 2010

New statutory instruments

2 March, 2010

DWP staff express concern at the perceived stringency of the work capability assessment

Limited scope for helping some claimants back to work, according to new DWP research

2 March, 2010

Child tax credit and entitlement to help under the Healthy Start Scheme

New statutory instrument

1 March, 2010

Notifying benefit departments of births and deaths

New regulations introduce alternative methods

1 March, 2010

Benefit rights of prisoners who are serving part of their sentences in psychiatric hospitals

New regulations reverse the effect of Court of Appeal judgment

26 February, 2010

Exporting DLA, attendance allowance and carer’s allowance

Government announces concession for those who lost entitlement between 2001 and 2007

26 February, 2010

Ending of ‘withdrawal of benefits for breach of a community order’ pilots

New statutory instrument

26 February, 2010

DWP announces increased financial help for mesothelioma sufferers

New rules will extend payments to those exposed to asbestos outside the workplace

26 February, 2010

Changes to the treatment of child maintenance payments and to the attribution of liable relative pay

New income support, JSA and employment and support allowance guidance