Welfare rights news and case law

4 May, 2018

Tribunals should question a healthcare professional’s failure to conduct a mental function assessment in reliance on what a claimant says

CPIP/13/2018

3 May, 2018

72 per cent of households that have had their housing benefit capped are single-parent families

New DWP statistics also show that a third of single-parent capped households include a child under 2 years old

3 May, 2018

Supersession of ESA award and entitlement to arrears after late notification of PIP award

CE/3532/2017

2 May, 2018

Where points are awarded for assistance with a therapeutic source, they cannot also be awarded for assistance with therapy

CSPIP/386/2015

2 May, 2018

Lip-reading is not to be considered an acceptable way to interpret verbal communication

CPIP/3326/2017

2 May, 2018

Payments to local authorities for the Verify Earnings and Pension Alerts service

New DWP guidance

30 April, 2018

Public Accounts Committee launches inquiry into the underpayment of claimants transferring from incapacity benefit to ESA

Committee says it will ask the DWP what it is doing to support affected claimants and make sure those who are entitled to benefit receive all they are owed

30 April, 2018

Claimant with indefinite leave to remain is not entitled to attendance allowance if the UK is not the competent state for paying sickness benefits

CA/2023/2017

30 April, 2018

Clear findings must be made as to the nature of assistance or supervision that would enable a claimant to carry out a task safely

CPIP/3130/2017

30 April, 2018

Effects of jobseeker’s conditionality on a claimant are relevant when deciding substantial risk under ESA regulation 29(2)(b)

CE/2904/2017

27 April, 2018

Work and Pensions Secretary announces extension of kinship carer support under the government's two child policy

Ms McVey also says that extended support will apply to adoptive parents of children who would otherwise be in local authority care

27 April, 2018

Automatic split payment of universal credit for victims of abuse has become ‘a bit of a sideshow’, says Work and Pensions Minister

However, Kit Malthouse says that if Scotland introduces automatic split payments then the government is ‘not closed to the idea’

27 April, 2018

Government establishes ‘fast-track’ process for confirming status of ‘Windrush’ benefit claimants

DWP working with the Home Office and other government bodies to ensure people receive the support to which they are entitled, says Work and Pensions Minister

26 April, 2018

Scottish Parliament votes unanimously to pass Social Security (Scotland) Bill

Stage 3 amendments include removing time limit on prognosis for terminal illness, and providing for payments of universal credit to be split between members of a couple

26 April, 2018

Further roll-out of universal credit full service

New statutory instrument provides for the expansion of the service between 2 May and 25 July 2018

26 April, 2018

IIAC decides not to prescribe urolithiasis for the purposes of industrial injuries disablement benefit

Advisory Council review concludes that the evidence base is too small and methodologically weak to recommend prescription

26 April, 2018

Deductions from benefits for fines in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

25 April, 2018

A child’s right to education and a parent's derivative right to reside is dependent on a common period of residence when the parent was a worker

CH/2712/2015

25 April, 2018

Families subject to the benefit cap in Northern Ireland are capped by an average of £48 per week

New Department for Communities statistics also show that 8 per cent of capped households were capped by more than £100 a week