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27 September, 2022

Cost of administering PIP mandatory reconsiderations increased to more than £28 million in 2021/2022

Minister also advises that, during the same time period, the cost of PIP appeals peaked at £35 million in 2017/2018 before dropping to just under £20 million in 2021/2022

27 September, 2022

Adding Council Tax Reduction Review Panel to list of tribunals whose functions can be transferred to the Scottish Tribunals

New statutory instrument

27 September, 2022

Ensuring that Irish Citizens are covered by exemption from requirement to satisfy habitual residence test or past presence test for people arriving in Great Britain from Ukraine

New statutory instrument

27 September, 2022 Open access

Extending Covid-19 related provisions that enable wider and extended use of video and audio live links in courts and tribunals in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule extends provisions for six months to 24 March 2023

26 September, 2022

PCS union warns that already ‘overstretched’ jobcentre staff face increase in workload as a result of universal credit changes being introduced today

Union also highlights that the more than 110,000 additional claimants subject to work coach interventions will increase further once plans announced by the Chancellor last week are brought into effect

26 September, 2022

DWP Permanent Secretary outlines groups who may have been underpaid state pension but who are not included in the Department’s LEAP exercise

Peter Schofield writes to the Public Accounts Committee to advise that those not included need to contact the Department

26 September, 2022

Labour would reform jobcentres and employment services through active help and support instead of threats and sanctions

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary also says that outsourcing of contracts would be replaced by partnerships with community groups, local authorities and services like the NHS

26 September, 2022

Calculation and payment of housing benefit subsidy for 2021/2022

New statutory instrument

26 September, 2022

Increase in the universal credit administrative earnings threshold in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

26 September, 2022 Open access

Continuation of suspension of waiting days for SSP in Northern Ireland where incapacity for work due to sickness from Covid-19 that commenced on or before 24 September 2022

New statutory rule

23 September, 2022

Chancellor announces further increase in universal credit administrative earnings threshold

Growth Plan 2022 also signals strengthening of universal credit sanctions regime and increase in work coach 'support' for claimants aged over 50

23 September, 2022

More than 12,000 universal credit claimants with an amount deducted for a sanction failed to qualify for the first cost of living payment as a result of a nil award

Written parliamentary answer also confirms that more than 6,000 households had a nil award solely due to a sanction deduction

23 September, 2022

Removal of requirement for budgeting loan awards to be agreed in writing before payment released in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

22 September, 2022

Audit Scotland warns that longer-term planning needed if Scottish Government is to reach 2030 child poverty target

Essential that Ministers act now to set out detail of how second child poverty delivery plan will be delivered, monitored and evaluated, says Auditor General

21 September, 2022

Number of households subject to benefit cap increased by almost 10 per cent in the three months to May 2022

New DWP statistics also show that almost 70 per cent of capped households were single parents with children, continuing quarter-on-quarter increase from 60 per cent in February 2021

20 September, 2022

Universal credit migration process is ill-suited to needs of people with mental health problems and preventative measures must be taken to mitigate potential harm

Money and Mental Health Institute sets out series of recommendations to maximise claimants' ability to respond to migration notices while also ensuring that incomes are safeguarded

20 September, 2022

Increase in the universal credit administrative earnings threshold

New DWP guidance

20 September, 2022

Increasing the winter fuel payment in Northern Ireland in 2022/2023 to take account of the new cost of living payment

New statutory rule

16 September, 2022

Almost 95 per cent of households who are subject to the benefit cap are only capped because its level has been frozen for six years

New CPAG analysis finds that, had cap been increased in line with inflation, it would be up to £260 per week higher in 2023/2024