Welfare rights news and case law

29 August, 2018

Industrial injuries benefits for latex anaphylaxis and nasal carcinoma in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule extends prescription criteria

29 August, 2018

Disregarding Scotland’s carer’s allowance supplement when determining income-related benefit claims

New DWP guidance

28 August, 2018

First payments of carer’s allowance supplement in Scotland to be made from mid-September

Scottish Government confirms that payments will be backdated to April

28 August, 2018

Zambrano carers and reliance on Euro-Mediterranean Agreement with Morocco to establish entitlement to child benefit and child tax credit

CTC/16/2018

28 August, 2018

Scottish Government raises concerns that draft universal credit transitional protection provisions may undermine its powers under the Scotland Act

Response to SSAC managed migration consultation says current proposals would offset any gains from the planned mitigation of bedroom tax in universal credit in Scotland

24 August, 2018

EEA nationals paid £15.5 billion more in tax and national insurance than they received in tax credits and child benefit in 2015/2016

New HMRC statistics also show that families with at least one EEA national made up less than ten per cent of families claiming tax credits

24 August, 2018

Disregard of payments for care and support in Wales in the calculation of social security benefits in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

24 August, 2018

Assistance with listening exercises can amount to ‘therapy’ / activity 7 and the Secretary of State’s lip-reading concession

CPIP/1988/2017

24 August, 2018

Treatment of arrears of legacy benefits paid as a result of an error of law in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

22 August, 2018

DWP funded Universal Support from local authorities only accessed by a third of those expected to take it in 2017/2018

New Universal Credit Local Authority Bulletin also says that DWP will publish outcome of its review of provision in Autumn 2018

21 August, 2018

Scottish Social Security Secretary calls for roll-out of universal credit to be stopped

Letter to Esther McVey says pausing roll-out will allow time to implement fixes that the Scottish Government believes universal credit and managed migration proposals urgently need

20 August, 2018

Benefit cap and two-child policy mean the concept of a safety net ‘is a fiction’, says CPAG

New research shows that life has been getting progressively tougher for families both on in-work and out-of-work benefits

17 August, 2018

High Court rules that cap on support under Access to Work scheme is not unlawful

[2018] EWHC 2196 (Admin)

16 August, 2018

Treatment of arrears of benefit paid as a result of an error of law

New statutory instrument

16 August, 2018

Introduction of the new carer’s allowance supplement in Scotland

New statutory instrument

15 August, 2018

SSAC publishes further clarification from DWP and HMRC about managed migration of tax credit claimants to universal credit

Information provided around identification of claimants with complex needs, deprivation of capital and transitional protection for claimants who are appealing a disability benefit decision

14 August, 2018

71 per cent of universal credit sanction decisions relate to failing to attend or participate in a work-focused interview

New DWP statistics also show that 18 per cent of universal credit sanctions lasted 14 weeks or more

14 August, 2018

Number of universal credit claimants hits one million for the first time

New DWP statistics

13 August, 2018

Secretary of State concedes that failure to assess for income-related ESA on conversion from incapacity benefit was official error

JR/1249/2018