Welfare rights news and case law

19 April, 2018

DWP should allow PIP to be used to lease or buy assistive technology in the same way as it can be used to lease a car

Select Committee says that capitalising on the possibilities of assistive technology could 'hold the key to closing the disability employment gap'

18 April, 2018

Government does not consider that greater use of split payments of universal credit can help victims of domestic abuse

Response to Work and Pensions Committee also says that the implication that universal credit single payments exacerbate the issue of domestic abuse is ‘completely without foundation’

17 April, 2018

Two child policy may give claimants 'an opportunity to talk about something that they might never have had before'

Secretary of State adds that work coaches will hold claimants' hands and support them if they are 'not au fait with the IT system'

17 April, 2018

More single parents are at risk of sanctions under universal credit, including those with very young children and those in work

New report from Gingerbread highlights that the promise of 'personalised support' has failed to materialise

17 April, 2018

More than a quarter of the 2 million universal credit claims made since April 2013 failed to result in a 'start' on the benefit

New DWP statistics also show that 820,000 claimants were on universal credit in March 2018

17 April, 2018

Assistance to set up and remove a feeding line can amount to assistance with managing a therapeutic source to take nutrition

CPIP/3024/2017

17 April, 2018

Miscellaneous amendments to universal credit in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule legislates for changes announced in the 2017 Autumn Budget and other changes governing the operation of universal credit in Northern Ireland

16 April, 2018

First-tier Tribunal does not have jurisdiction where there has been no valid appeal

CTC/3409/2017

13 April, 2018

Reading and understanding written information when BSL is the claimant's primary means of communication

CPIP/2050/2017

13 April, 2018

Tribunal put on notice to seek ESA claim history by evidence that a longstanding health condition had not changed

CE/3887/2016

12 April, 2018

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry into benefit sanctions

Committee will investigate how sanctions operate, recent developments, and what evidence there is that they work

12 April, 2018

Minimum Income Floor in universal credit is unfair and risks causing financial hardship to self-employed workers, says Citizens Advice

New report calls on government to review both the lower work allowances and the MIF to give workers better financial security

12 April, 2018

Deciding where a child normally lives for the purposes of universal credit

New DWP guidance issued following recent Upper Tribunal decision

12 April, 2018

Introduction of the Verify Earnings and Pensions Alerts service for detecting fraud and error in the housing benefit system

New DWP guidance

12 April, 2018

Welfare rights

DWP should allow PIP to be used to lease or buy assistive technology in the same way as it can be used to lease a car

Select Committee says that capitalising on the possibilities of assistive technology could 'hold the key to closing the disability employment gap'

Government does not consider that greater use of split payments of universal credit can help victims of domestic abuse

Two child policy may give claimants 'an opportunity to talk about something that they might never have had before'

More single parents are at risk of sanctions under universal credit, including those with very young children and those in work

More than a quarter of the 2 million universal credit claims made since April 2013 failed to result in a 'start' on the benefit

Assistance to set up and remove a feeding line can amount to assistance with managing a therapeutic source to take nutrition

Miscellaneous amendments to universal credit in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule legislates for changes announced in the 2017 Autumn Budget and other changes governing the operation of universal credit in Northern Ireland

First-tier Tribunal does not have jurisdiction where there has been no valid appeal

Reading and understanding written information when BSL is the claimant's primary means of communication

Tribunal put on notice to seek ESA claim history by evidence that a longstanding health condition had not changed

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry into benefit sanctions

Minimum Income Floor in universal credit is unfair and risks causing financial hardship to self-employed workers, says Citizens Advice

Deciding where a child normally lives for the purposes of universal credit

Introduction of the Verify Earnings and Pensions Alerts service for detecting fraud and error in the housing benefit system

A tribunal's reasons must respond to the claimant’s arguments when they do not coincide with individual PIP activities

Tribunals Service introduces new ‘Track Your Appeal’ service for PIP appeals

Scotland's plans to abolish bedroom tax at source in universal credit delayed until May 2020 at earliest

A non-dependant cannot 'normally reside with' a housing benefit claimant if their normal home is elsewhere

Contradictions between a tribunal's decision notice and statement of reasons are likely to amount to an error of law