Welfare rights news and case law

6 October, 2008

Removing barriers is essential to boosting benefit take-up

Welsh Assembly Minister calls for automatic entitlements and increases in earnings and savings thresholds

6 October, 2008

New Ministerial line-up at the DWP

Four appointments confirmed following Cabinet reshuffle

6 October, 2008

Increase in the cold weather payment for winter 2008/2009

New statutory instrument

3 October, 2008

Tax credit delays require ‘decisive Ministerial action’

Delayed justice is no justice, says Low Incomes Tax Reform Group

3 October, 2008

Streamlining the attendance allowance and social care application processes

DWP publishes evaluation of two London pilots

3 October, 2008

Stimulating improvement in the delivery of housing benefit and council tax benefit services

Audit Commission publishes findings from inspections of nine 'volunteer' local authorities

3 October, 2008

New employment and support allowance guidance

DWP adds new volumes to the Decision Makers Guide

3 October, 2008

Little evidence that Pathways to Work has a long-term effect on benefit receipt

New DWP research

3 October, 2008

Industrial injuries benefit and ‘popcorn worker’s lung’

Advisory Council recommends prescription

3 October, 2008

Child support reform in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

2 October, 2008

Miscellaneous amendments in relation to child support

New statutory instruments

1 October, 2008

Jobseekers who turn down three job offers should be excluded from the benefits system for three years

Welfare not an entitlement, but a two-way contract, says Conservative Work and Pensions spokesperson

30 September, 2008

Help with health service costs in Northern Ireland for those in receipt of employment and support al

New statutory rule

29 September, 2008

Prescription charges to be abolished in Northern Ireland

A very positive step forward, says British Medical Association

26 September, 2008

Targeting benefit ‘thieves’ and those ‘living it up on the Costas’

DWP launches new benefit fraud initiatives

26 September, 2008

Industrial injuries benefit and laryngeal cancer as a result of asbestos exposure

New Advisory Council position paper

26 September, 2008

Further reform of the state pension deferral rules

New DWP research

26 September, 2008

Dealing with ‘defective’ income support and JSA claims

DWP issues new guidance following 'recent legal advice'

26 September, 2008

Use and witholding of surveillance evidence

New DWP guidance following recent commissioner's decision