19 May, 2021
19 May, 2021
New report from the Public Law Project emphasises importance of Digital Support fulfilling its role if ongoing HMCTS reforms are truly to maintain or improve access to justice
19 May, 2021
Minister advises that mechanisms include making payments to a third party or making the payment in smaller amounts staggered over time
19 May, 2021
MH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (ESA)
[2021] UKUT 90 (AAC)
CE/685/2020
19 May, 2021
Designed to support councils identify vulnerable families, Department will now share data on limited capability for work, and earnings below the free school meals and free prescription thresholds
18 May, 2021
Guidance follows Upper Tribunal decision that claimants could not wash or bathe safely after removing hearing aids as they wouldn't be able to hear a standard fire alarm
18 May, 2021
18 May, 2021
New DWP statistics show that around 40,000 claims were received in each of the four weeks to 8 April 2021 compared to a pre-pandemic average of more than 50,000
18 May, 2021
In particular, letter from Lord Forsyth and Stephen Timms questions Department's use of statistics when answering questions about its consideration of separate payments for couples
17 May, 2021
Ministers' response to Select Committee also warns that automation of current manual split payment processes would cause considerable disruption and take time to complete
17 May, 2021
Face-to-face assessments are an 'important tool' to draw out issues that otherwise might go unreported, and moving away from them may make collecting evidence challenging, say DWP Ministers
17 May, 2021
Responses to online survey sought by 1 June 2021
14 May, 2021
Former Chief Whip Jane Hutt takes up newly created Ministerial post following recent Senedd elections
13 May, 2021
New Trussell Trust research shows that almost half of all people using food banks and four in ten disabled people referred were indebted to the DWP
13 May, 2021
However DWP Minister says that, due to streamlined verification checks during the surge in universal credit claims at the start of the pandemic, it was 'inevitable' that level of fraud and error would increase
13 May, 2021
New DWP guidance clarifies that the UK can remain the competent state for paying the benefits provided the claimant was a frontier worker immediately before the end of the transition period and continues to be so thereafter
13 May, 2021
New DWP guidance highlights that if claimant does not have leave to enter or remain in the UK under EUSS, they may be a person subject to immigration control and therefore not entitled to the benefits
13 May, 2021
Email to stakeholders advises that letters will include guidance on who should apply, how to do so, and flag support available to assist with applications
12 May, 2021
Department's benefit and pension rates policy paper had previously outlined that up to £108.35 per month could be deducted
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