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4 November, 2020

Social security and employment support provision in Scotland and the wider UK ‘do not effectively recognise mental health’

New research calls for wide ranging policy change including ending of conditionality, and therefore sanctions, for claimants awaiting a limited capability for work assessment

4 November, 2020 Open access

Miscellaneous amendments to social security regulations, including extension of the period over which the minimum income floor rules are relaxed

New statutory instrument

4 November, 2020 Open access

Extension of period when coronavirus-related breaks in care do not affect entitlement to carer’s allowance in Scotland

New statutory instrument

3 November, 2020 Open access

Suspension of Minimum Income Floor in universal credit extended to end of April 2021

Secretary of State says regulations will be laid and made prior to the easement's current expiry date of 12 November 2020

3 November, 2020 Open access

Health Secretary concedes that government’s COVID-19 app is missing the button that people are meant to use to help them access the £500 self-isolation payment

Mr Hancock says button 'is coming', despite having told Parliament two weeks ago that it is 'there on the app'

3 November, 2020

Welsh Government sets out new Income Maximisation Action Plan to help tackle child poverty

Objectives include promoting take-up of benefits and extending temporary flexibilities in the Discretionary Assistance Fund to March 2021

3 November, 2020

Disregarding of Scottish Child Payment for the purposes of means-tested benefits

New DWP guidance

2 November, 2020 Open access

Courts and tribunals in England will continue to operate during the lockdown being introduced from 5 November 2020

Message from Lord Chief Justice and Senior President of Tribunals also advises judges they must continue to make full use of remote attendance so that cases can be dealt with 'as soon and as efficiently as possible'

2 November, 2020 Open access

Start of COVID-19 pandemic saw the highest number of people claiming council tax support in England since records began in 2015

Local Government Association reports that 2.5 million working age people claimed the benefit between April and June this year

2 November, 2020 Open access

Almost a third of children in Wales are living in poverty, with the majority in families receiving income-related benefits

New report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warns that, without continued support from furlough schemes and temporary benefit increases, it is clear that poverty will increase

30 October, 2020

‘Misadvice and misdirection’ from DWP staff has led to people making claims for universal credit to their detriment, says Independent Case Examiner

New annual report also highlights cases where universal credit claimants find themselves in debt 'through no fault of their own' due to recovery of official error overpayents

30 October, 2020 Open access

Faith leaders urge Prime Minister to ‘take the politics out of child poverty’ and establish a cross-party commission to ‘eliminate the scandal of child poverty for good’

Letter to Prime Minister also includes calls for temporary universal credit uplift to be made permanent and for free school meal vouchers to be extended

30 October, 2020 Open access

Social care workers in Wales to have SSP topped up to level of normal wages if they have coronavirus or are required to self-isolate

Welsh Government announces new SSP enhancement scheme to run from 1 November 2020 to 31 March 2021

30 October, 2020 Open access

DWP confirms that 4,500 new work coaches are now ‘lined up’ to join jobcentres across the UK

New recruits will be 'trained up' to help jobseekers get the support they need, says Department

30 October, 2020

Ensuring that restrictions on awards of PIP mobility component apply to claimants in Scotland whose award is superseded after state pension age on medical evidence grounds

New statutory instrument

29 October, 2020

Public more likely to think unemployment benefits are too low rather than too high even before COVID-19 pandemic struck

2019 British Social Attitudes Survey also shows that only 15 per cent of people now think those on social security are 'undeserving'

28 October, 2020 Open access

With labour market crisis likely to accelerate over winter, government must protect the incomes of those most affected, says Resolution Foundation

Key recommendations in new 'Jobs, jobs, jobs' report include maintaining £1,000 boost to universal credit and working tax credit, extending grace period for benefit cap, and continuing suspension of MIF

28 October, 2020 Open access

Further social security measures needed as part of Scottish Government’s actions to repair household finances ahead of COVID winter

Institute for Public Policy Research recommendations include bringing forward start date for Scottish Child Payments and introducing automatic payment of local administered benefits in time for 2021/2022

28 October, 2020 Open access

Work and Pensions Committee seeks urgent update on DWP’s plans for the suspended minimum income floor in universal credit

Letter to Secretary of State asks whether suspension will be extended beyond its 12 November 2020 expiry date

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