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24 March, 2022

Rate of overpayments in the universal credit Covid caseload was a ‘remarkable’ 25 per cent

Office for Budget Responsibility highlights that fraud and error rates were particularly high in self-employed claims and in cases related to capital rules

24 March, 2022

Government estimates that delayed PIP award reviews resulting from DWP operational measures to manage referrals to assessment providers will increase expenditure on awards by £85 million in the two years to April 2023

Policy costings published alongside the Spring Statement 2022 explain that the reason that delays cause increased expenditure is that the average change at award review is a reduction in the amount of award

24 March, 2022

Bereavement support payment claimant could not rely on period when deceased partner remained married to someone else in establishing marriage by cohabitation under Scottish law

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v AB (BB)
[2022] UKUT 83 (AAC)
UA-2021-SCO 000030 BB

24 March, 2022

Uprating of mesothelioma lump sum payments from April 2022 in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

24 March, 2022

Social security benefits uprating in Northern Ireland 2022/2023

New statutory rules

23 March, 2022

Government announces extra £500 million for the discretionary Household Support Fund to ‘support the most vulnerable families with their essentials’

Presenting the Spring Statement, Chancellor also advises that national insurance thresholds will rise to £12,570 to align with the income tax personal allowance

23 March, 2022

Tribunal was correct to decide that an Irish widow’s pension should be counted as claimant’s unearned income to be deducted from any calculation of universal credit

LR v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2022] UKUT 65 (AAC)
CUC/1019/2020

23 March, 2022

Welsh Government publishes research into the experiences and perceptions of people who received a Covid-19 Self-Isolation Support Payment

Key findings include that despite low awareness about the scheme in Wales, the majority of recipients felt that the payment enabled them to self-isolate and prevented them from falling into debt

23 March, 2022

More than 57,000 unpaid carers in Wales to receive a £500 one-off payment

Welsh Government says that payment will be made to those who are in receipt of carer's allowance on 31 March 2022

23 March, 2022 Open access

Exemption from habitual residence and past presence tests for specified benefits for people arriving in Scotland from Ukraine

New statutory instrument

23 March, 2022

Enabling people in Northern Ireland to continue to be able to claim SSP where absence from work is related to Covid-19

New statutory rule

23 March, 2022

Miscellaneous amendments in relation to the further rollout of universal credit to replace legacy benefits in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

22 March, 2022 Open access

Amendment of child benefit residence conditions and tax credit income rules to support people arriving in the UK from Ukraine and their sponsors

New statutory instrument

22 March, 2022

Maternity Action calls on Work and Pensions Secretary to carry out urgent assessment of reasons for fall of more than 40 per cent in maternity allowance awards since 2015/2016

New research estimates that treatment as unearned income for universal credit purposes has led to 'disappearance' of up to 85,000 maternity allowance awards worth £500 million

22 March, 2022

Decision to cease entitlement to income support because claimant’s carer’s allowance had stopped can be revised if the decision to stop carer’s allowance is subsequently overturned

MW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (IS)
[2022] UKUT 59 (AAC)
CIS/222/2021

22 March, 2022

Number of universal credit households subject to the benefit cap fell by almost a third between September and October 2021

DWP highlights that decrease coincides with the withdrawal of the temporary £20 uplift from 6 October 2021

22 March, 2022

More than three-quarters of PIP assessments continue to be carried out over the telephone, according to latest DWP figures

Minister also confirms that proportion of assessments carried out face-to-face remained at less than five per cent in the three months to January 2022

22 March, 2022

Social security benefits uprating 2022/2023

New statutory instruments