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13 September, 2021 Open access

Secretary of State fails to take into account universal credit taper rate in suggesting that claimants can make up for the loss of the £20 uplift by working two extra hours a week

Uplift was always intended to be temporary, but we will be seeing what we can do to help people 'perhaps secure extra hours', says Dr Coffey

13 September, 2021

Claimants will be informed by debt management staff that they can request a waiver of universal credit overpayments ‘if they express concern about repayment’, Minister says

Written answer to Parliament also confirms that around 90,000 ‘official error’ universal credit overpayments of more than £1,000 have been recorded in the 12 months to July 2021

13 September, 2021

Treatment of payments from the Adviser Discretion Fund in Northern Ireland for upfront costs of childcare

New statutory rule provides for payments to be fully disregarded when calculating childcare costs element within universal credit award

13 September, 2021

Providing for an exception to bedroom tax for claimants living in a social sector property that has been adapted under a sanctuary scheme in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule makes changes equivalent to those made in Great Britain by SI.No.991/2021

13 September, 2021

Amendment of claims and payments rules to allow arrears of devolved disability benefits in Scotland to be paid by instalments

New statutory instrument

10 September, 2021 Open access

Retrospective verification of 900,000 ‘at risk’ universal credit claims made during Covid-19 pandemic finds 11 per cent ‘had something wrong’

DWP officials also advise Public Accounts Committee that verification exercise is almost complete and has highlighted £400m incorrect payments

10 September, 2021

Providing exception to bedroom tax for claimants living in a social sector property that has been adapted under a sanctuary scheme

New statutory instrument also defines relevant accommodation for purposes of local authority duty to assess need for accommodation-based support to victims of domestic abuse

10 September, 2021 Open access

HMRC confirms that around 23,000 further working tax credit claimants will receive the one-off £500 Covid payment in September 2021

Permanent Secretary advises that payments will be made where finalisation of awards reveals that the claimant met the eligible criteria for the one-off payment at 2 March 2021

10 September, 2021

Hundreds of DWP staff are being redeployed to deal with backlog in processing new state pension claims

DWP Minister says that the Department is 'working hard' and that normal service will be resumed by the end of October 2021

10 September, 2021

DWP invites applications for delivery of a universal credit ‘Help to Claim’ type service from April 2022

However, Department cautions that there is no guarantee that it will secure the requisite funding and therefore 'reserves the right to terminate the competition'

10 September, 2021 Open access

DWP confirms that Covid-19-related carer’s allowance easements ended on 31 August 2021

New edition of Touchbase says that easements have ended due to vaccination programme allowing 'a cautious easing of restrictions'

10 September, 2021 Open access

Volume of social security and child support appeal receipts down by more than 50 per cent on pre-Covid-19 baseline

New MoJ statistics also show that mean age of case at disposal in April to June 2021 was 39 weeks, nine weeks more than in same quarter of 2019

10 September, 2021

Scottish Government announces that child disability payment will open for new applications nationally from 22 November 2021

National roll-out follows successful pilot in Dundee City, Perth and Kinross, and the Western Isles

9 September, 2021

DWP rejects SSAC recommendation to implement and publish a strategy for evaluating the performance of the claimant commitment

Response to the Committee's September 2019 report also declines to test improvements and publish timetable for when test results could be expected

9 September, 2021

Post Office card account closures delayed until November 2022

DWP says decision to extend availability of accounts is due to disruption caused by Covid-19 and will ensure that everyone has time to make alternative arrangements

9 September, 2021 Open access

Closure of the Covid-19-related statutory sick pay rebate scheme for employers from 30 September 2021

New statutory instrument

8 September, 2021

Bill introduced in the Commons to replace the state pension triple lock with a double lock for 2022/2023

Government says that action is needed to avoid 'significant spending implications' for benefits linked to earnings

8 September, 2021 Open access

Opposition day debate on the withdrawal of the £20 uplift cancelled to allow MPs to vote on the government’s plan for a new health and social care levy

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary says that the 'biggest cut in the history of the welfare state' must be debated in Parliament, and that he will do all he can to ensure a vote still takes place

8 September, 2021

Seven appeals relating to the Scottish child payment have been put on pause by the First-tier Tribunal in Scotland while the ‘law is looked at again’

Law which prevents payment of benefit to a claimant where a person not responsible for the child is receiving other benefits relating to the child is 'clearly not what was intended and is unfair', says Social Security Chamber

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