Welfare rights news and case law

21 May, 2009

Judicial Review application in Scotland / whether can be made direct to the Upper Tribunal

CIB/261/2009

21 May, 2009

Mobility component / whether claimant could ‘benefit from enhanced facilities for locomotion’

CDLA/544/2009

21 May, 2009

English councils should be able to supplement council tax with a local income tax

New report from the Communities and Local Government Select Committee

20 May, 2009

Whether ECSMA nationals are subject to the right to reside test

[2009] EWCA Civ 415 — R(H) 7/09

20 May, 2009

Mobility component / use of shopping trolley as artificial aid

CDLA/216/2009

19 May, 2009

DWP’s power to terminate benefit for non-provision of information

CJSA/68/2009

19 May, 2009

Tax credits worth more than £3/4 billion underpaid in 2007/2008

Revenue publishes new National Statistics

18 May, 2009

Tax credits and entitlement to free school meals in Scotland

New statutory instrument

18 May, 2009

Revenue’s management of variation in its tax credit workload

New National Audit Office report

18 May, 2009

New national insurance rates and income tax allowances

New DWP guidance

18 May, 2009

Benefit rights of prisoners transferred to or located in psychiatric hospitals

New DWP guidance following recent High Court judgment

15 May, 2009

Exploring why child poverty rates for most ethnic minority groups are higher than the national average

New DWP research

15 May, 2009

Flexible New Deal contractors could be paid 40 per cent 'up front' regardless of how many people they place into work

Government responds to Work and Pensions Select Committee report

15 May, 2009

Impact of the Choices package in Pathways to Work

New DWP research

14 May, 2009

Disregard of capital / monies paid in consequence of ‘damage to or loss of home’

CIS/3335/2008

14 May, 2009

Earnings limit for carer’s allowance purposes / need for presenting officer to attend hearing

CG/244/2009

14 May, 2009

Older people’s attitudes to automatic awards of pension credit

New DWP research

14 May, 2009

Introduction of new four-stage jobseekers regime

New DWP research

14 May, 2009

Benefits worth more than £1bn underpaid last year

DWP publishes new fraud and error statistics