19 April, 2023
19 April, 2023
Commitments in new strategy document include further £1.3 billion for Scottish child payment, reduction in child poverty, and transfer of more than 700,000 awards from the DWP to Social Security Scotland
17 April, 2023
Written parliamentary answer also highlights that more than 30 per cent of those awarded PIP at mandatory reconsideration following an initial decision refusing an award receive an enhanced component
17 April, 2023
Written answer highlights that more than a quarter of a million claimants are in the ESA support group under substantial risk criteria
17 April, 2023
While new equality analysis finds that there may be indirect impacts, Department says they will be 'positive and beneficial' as policy is intended to be 'non-punitive'
17 April, 2023
Updated DWP guidance clarifies that this applies even where there is otherwise a 'nil award' due to a sanction
17 April, 2023
14 April, 2023
While acknowledging major reforms announced in the Health and Disability White Paper, Work and Pensions Committee calls for changes to be made now to give 'much-needed transparency to a process that so few trust'
14 April, 2023
New Housing Benefit Circular confirms details of almost £19 million being provided to meet 'New Burdens' incurred by councils
12 April, 2023
New DWP guidance advises information can be accessed through the HMRC app or online and then printed or saved to use as evidence
6 April, 2023
However, while accepting that findings constitute a negative financial impact on claimants 'in a narrow sense', Department argues that it should be balanced against the 'likely' positive deterrent effect
6 April, 2023
Study of legal advice models combining face-to-face with remote communications warns that requiring the use of remote platforms risks excluding vulnerable client groups
6 April, 2023
Director General calls on the Scottish Government to clarify how policies were chosen to be included in the £3 billion it said was allocated for cost of living support in 2022/2023
6 April, 2023
Calling for policy to be abolished, CPAG says this would lift 250,000 children out of poverty and a further 850,000 would be in less deep poverty
5 April, 2023
Six-monthly payments of £270.50 to be made to eligible carers who are receiving carer’s allowance on 10 April and 9 October 2023
4 April, 2023
Payment of £301 will be issued by HMRC to those entitled to a payment of tax credits in the period 26 January to 25 February 2023
4 April, 2023
His Majesty's Revenue and Customs v AS (TC)
[2023] UKUT 67 (AAC)
UA-2021-001169
4 April, 2023
New DWP guidance
4 April, 2023
New housing benefit circular advises on fraud and error activities that local authorities are expected to undertake in return for additional funding
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