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7 February, 2020

Tribunal asked the wrong question when seeking to link cause of child’s night time care needs to a disability rather than focusing on reasonable requirement for attention

ES (by his appointee CS) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (DLA)
[2020] UKUT 10 (AAC)
CDLA/1837/2019

7 February, 2020

Low Incomes Tax Reform Group seeks evidence on HMRC’s use of compliance powers including to recover tax credit debt direct from bank accounts

Evidence will feed into evaluation of how HMRC is complying with principles of proportionality and consistency in the use of its powers

7 February, 2020

DWP to launch 12 week pension credit take-up campaign on 10 February 2020

Department says that campaign's 'key feature' is 30 second animated video which will be shown in GP surgeries and Post Offices

7 February, 2020

Uprating of war pensions for 2020/2021

New DWP guidance for housing benefit staff

6 February, 2020

Scottish Budget commits to delivery of social security assistance with total forecast expenditure of more than £3 billion in 2020/2021

Having won greater control over social security, this coming year will be 'truly transformational', says Minister for Public Finance

6 February, 2020

Welfare mitigation payments in Northern Ireland will not be interrupted if legislation to extend the measures beyond March 2020 is delayed

Minister for Communities says her Department is 'working to ensure' that there will be no gap in payments

6 February, 2020

National roll-out of NHS electronic prescription checking service will not cover exemption based on receipt of DWP benefits

NHS Digital advises that service only currently applies in respect of medical, maternity, low-income scheme and tax credit exemptions

6 February, 2020

Removal of end date for transitional addition to ESA linked to awards following entitlement to previous incapacity benefits

New statutory instrument

6 February, 2020

Welfare benefit uprating 2020/2021

DWP issues new guidance to local authority housing benefit staff

6 February, 2020

Number of benefit capped households on universal credit exceed those on housing benefit for the first time

New DWP statistics show that 40,000 of the 76,000 households capped at November 2019 had the cap applied to universal credit

5 February, 2020

Government says that £500 million cost of delay to universal credit roll-out is due to extra 900,000 claimants being eligible for transitional protection

This is additional money that will go into the pockets of 'our claimants', says DWP Minister Will Quince

5 February, 2020

UK Statistics Authority Chair agrees that PM’s claim that universal credit has already succeeded in getting 200,000 people into jobs was incorrect

Letter to Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary says the figure represents the DWP's estimate once universal credit is fully rolled out, not the current position

5 February, 2020

Supreme Court dismisses Northern Ireland Attorney General’s attempt to challenge roll-out of universal credit, holding that process used did not raise a ‘devolution issue’

Northern Ireland devolution issues, A Reference by the Attorney General (Northern Ireland) [2020] UKSC 2

5 February, 2020

Northern Ireland Communities Minister ends practice of publishing names of people convicted of benefit fraud

Minister tells Northern Ireland Assembly that change is designed to remove the 'air of demonisation of poor families'

5 February, 2020

LHA rates now cover just 13 per cent of private rents

New research also finds that restoring LHA rates to 30th percentile would reduce number of households in temporary accommodation by more than 100,000

4 February, 2020

Full roll-out of universal credit delayed from December 2023 until September 2024

Work and Pensions Secretary confirms that delay due to revised estimate that 900,000 fewer households than previously forecast will naturally migrate by end of 2023

4 February, 2020

More than a fifth of universal credit claims closed without being paid due to non-compliance with claimant commitment or initial interview requirements

Figures supplied by DWP in response to Freedom of Information request

4 February, 2020

Department for Communities appoints Marie Cavanagh to carry out second Independent Statutory Review of PIP Assessments in Northern Ireland

Legislation requires Review to be completed and laid before the Assembly before 20 June 2020

3 February, 2020

Standard rate of funeral support payment in Scotland to be increased to £1,000 from April 2020

Increase will be paid in addition to burial, cremation and travel costs