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8 March, 2017

Chancellor announces increase in Class 4 National Insurance contributions to reflect increased access to new state pension for self-employed

Rate will rise by one per cent in April 2018 and by a further one per cent a year later

7 March, 2017

Competent state for paying DLA care component to UK resident receiving a Dutch survivor’s pension

CDLA/2328/2015

7 March, 2017

Interaction between working tax credit provisions for entitlement during maternity leave and the four week run-on

CTC/5443/2014

6 March, 2017

Universal credit consent process is a 'barrier to justice, says chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee

New rule 'makes the job more tiresome, slows it down, and creates more work for constituents'

6 March, 2017

Local authorities in Scotland to receive £57.9 million funding for DHPs in 2017/2018

Scottish Government says this represents a £7.7 million increase in funding compared to 2016/2017

6 March, 2017

Extrinsic allergic alveolitis added to list of prescribed diseases caused by chemical agents

New statutory instrument

3 March, 2017

Scottish Government starts recruitment to social security ‘Experience Panels’

Panel members will help design, build, and refine a new and better social security system, says Social Security Minister

3 March, 2017

Benefit uprating 2017/2018

New statutory instrument

3 March, 2017

Projected increase in child poverty by 2022 ‘entirely explained’ by impact of planned tax and benefit reforms

New IFS analysis also warns that higher inflation means that the benefit freeze is now expected to reduce the value of those benefits by 6 per cent

2 March, 2017

Amendments to bedroom tax legislation to provide for disabled adults who cannot share, and for disabled children or non-dependants who need an overnight carer

New statutory instrument

2 March, 2017

SSAC issues statement on its scrutiny of the Personal Independence Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Committee to decide next week on whether it wishes to take the regulations on formal reference or to comment further

2 March, 2017

Removal of the ESA work-related activity component from 3 April 2017

DWP issues new housing benefit guidance

2 March, 2017

Changes to the ESA exempt work rules from 3 April 2017

DWP issues new housing benefit guidance

2 March, 2017

Families with children have lost more than any other group from changes to universal credit

Cuts are 'poverty-producing' to the effect of around a million children, according to new analysis by the Child Poverty Action Group

1 March, 2017

Amendments to bedroom tax legislation following Supreme Court ruling in November 2016

New DWP guidance advises that an extra bedroom will be allowed for disabled adults who cannot share, and for disabled children or non-dependants who need an overnight carer

1 March, 2017

Retaining the triple lock could push state pension age above 70, say MPs

New research published by the Work and Pensions Committee reports that this is above the level of male life expectancy in more deprived areas of England and Scotland

1 March, 2017

2017/2018 government funding for local authorities in respect of discretionary housing payments

New DWP guidance

1 March, 2017

Tribunals are not under a duty to consider telephoning a claimant in the event of their unexplained absence at a hearing

CE/2018/2016