19 November, 2020
19 November, 2020 Open access
Shadow Chancellor also urges an urgent assessment of financial barriers to self-isolation including the levels of statutory sick pay
19 November, 2020 Open access
New edition of LA Welfare Direct also advises that MHCLG will issue guidance on the impact of grants on council tax reduction ‘in due course’
19 November, 2020
Open letter to government from alliance of health, social care and advice sector organisations calls for fully funded new duty on councils for the provision of welfare rights and money advice
18 November, 2020
New Public Accounts Committee report on DWP's Accounts for 2019/2020 also finds that Department's system of fixing its own errors 'can penalise the least secure with yet more debt and even lower incomes'
18 November, 2020 Open access
DWP and Department for Communities must establish maximum time periods during which face-to-face assessments and decisions will take place, says Committee
18 November, 2020
18 November, 2020 Open access
Cabinet Secretary also confirms that existing DLA and PIP claimants will begin to transfer to new benefits as soon as they are rolled out nationally
17 November, 2020
While disclosure was considered 'necessary' to fulfil a ‘legitimate interest’, disclosing more detailed information would ‘tip the balance’ of transparency and have an 'unjustified detrimental impact on privacy rights of the data subject'
17 November, 2020 Open access
Payable via the Discretionary Support scheme, the grant will use higher daily rates of benefit to calculate award
17 November, 2020
'Our existing legislation already protects children's rights', says Minister
17 November, 2020
New report also recommends improvements to the PIP eligibility criteria and reassessment process as a way to address inequalities of access to Motability
17 November, 2020 Open access
Pre-budget scrutiny report also calls on Scottish Government to look at whether roll-out of Scottish Child Payment for older children could be speeded up
16 November, 2020
New DWP guidance
16 November, 2020 Open access
Maximising take-up is a 'moral duty', say Scottish Social Security Secretary and Ministers in Wales and Northern Ireland
16 November, 2020 Open access
New Resolution Foundation research also finds that more than half of lowest income families are having to borrow to cover everyday costs such as housing and food
13 November, 2020 Open access
Direction made further to the Chancellor's announcement that the CJRS is extended to the end of March 2021
13 November, 2020
New statutory instrument
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