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20 July, 2018

Further roll-out of universal credit full service

New statutory instrument provides for the service to expand to cover the whole of Great Britain between 5 September and 12 December 2018

20 July, 2018

Further roll-out of universal credit in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule provides for the introduction of the new benefit in specified postcode areas from 5 September 2018 to 5 December 2018

20 July, 2018

Disregarding Scotland's carer’s allowance supplement when determining claims for income-related benefits

New statutory instrument

19 July, 2018

Minister confirms that arrears of underpaid ESA, paid as a result of DWP error, will be fully disregarded for purposes of other benefits

However, Sarah Newton declines to respond to questions relating to compensation for other losses

19 July, 2018

Bill proposing removal of six month time limit from definition of terminal illness receives first reading

Instead, the clinical judgment of a registered medical practitioner would determine whether a person is terminally ill

19 July, 2018

Joint Committee on Human Rights seeks views on proposed amendments to Jobseeker’s (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013

If agreed, the amendments will remedy the incompatibility of the Act with article 6(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights

19 July, 2018

Government opens Windrush compensation consultation, including proposal to cover benefit losses

Plans for redress also include accepting compensation claims for losses experienced at any point in the past

18 July, 2018

DWP agrees to pay full arrears to claimants who were underpaid ESA on conversion from incapacity benefit

Secretary of State confirms that any cases where arrears have already been paid will be reviewed to ensure correct payment is made

18 July, 2018

DWP ‘consistently understating’ number of sanctions by publishing post-appeal figures

Chair of Select Committee highlights that pre-appeal and post-appeal figures vary by as much as 57 per cent

18 July, 2018

Three months after support for mortgage interest was converted to a loan, only a quarter of claimants have taken up offer

Updated analysis also shows that 65 per cent of claimants that the DWP have successfully made contact with have declined the loan

18 July, 2018

Non-receipt of housing benefit ‘Stop Notices’ for some claimants naturally migrating to universal credit

DWP issues new housing benefit guidance

18 July, 2018

Claimants to miss out on up to £150 million due to DWP's 'blinkered and wholly inept' handling of migration from incapacity benefit to ESA

Public Accounts Committee highlights that the Department's 'culture of indifference' led to six year delay in addressing errors

17 July, 2018

More than 5 years after its launch, there are still less than a million people on universal credit

New DWP statistics highlight that claimant numbers have however increased by 7 per cent over the last month

17 July, 2018

Vital support is being withdrawn too early from self-employed universal credit claimants

DWP encourages self-employment and then pulls the rug away, says Work and Pensions Select Committee

17 July, 2018

NAO qualifies its opinion on HMRC's accounts because of high levels of tax credit fraud and error

Most recent available estimates indicate that overpayments have increased to 4.9 per cent of annual expenditure on tax credits

12 July, 2018

Commons votes against censuring Secretary of State for her handling of universal credit

Opposition Day debate is lost by 268 votes to 305

12 July, 2018

United Nations Special Rapporteur seeks evidence relating to poverty and human rights ahead of UK visit in November 2018

Particular areas of interest include austerity and the implementation of universal credit

12 July, 2018

30 per cent of local authorities in England and Wales overspent their allocated DHP funding in 2017/2018

New DWP statistics also show that 229 local authorities underspent DHP funding by more than £8.5 million

12 July, 2018

Three quarters of council tenants on universal credit are in arrears compared to a quarter of all other council tenants

New research from the National Federation of ALMOs also finds that a quarter of rent arrears are accrued by universal credit households even though they only make up 4 per cent of total households