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28 January, 2016

Overnight care and Sanctuary Scheme bedroom tax cases to be appealed to the Supreme Court

Supreme Court has confirmed that the cases will be heard from 29 February to 2 March 2016

28 January, 2016

Lords vote to block the abolition of work-related activity component in ESA and limited capability for work element in universal credit

Amendment to the Welfare Reform and Work Bill is passed by 283 votes to 198

28 January, 2016

Opposition day motion on housing benefit and supported housing defeated

MPs vote against motion calling for supported housing to be exempt from housing benefit capping in the social sector by 286 votes to 239

28 January, 2016

Kinship carers and parents who adopt sibling groups to be exempt from two child restriction in child tax credit and universal credit

Lord Freud confirms that exemptions will be laid down in regulations

28 January, 2016

Universal credit claimants are asked at their first interview if they are receiving council tax reduction, says Employment Minister

Claimants who are not receiving reduction are signposted to make a claim though their local authority

26 January, 2016

Scottish Government outlines new model for distribution of funding for the Scottish Welfare Fund

New model will see money allocated to local authorities based on levels of deprivation.

26 January, 2016

House of Lords votes against government's proposed abolition of current system of measuring child poverty

In a debate on the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, peers vote by 290 to 198 in favour of amendment moved by the Bishop of Durham

26 January, 2016

Lord Freud announces the government's intention to exempt recipients of carer’s allowance from the benefit cap

Amendment to the Welfare Reform and Work Bill to be brought forward at Third Reading

26 January, 2016

DWP publishes an evaluation of the ‘In-work progression advice trial’

Findings include that some participants did not take up the offer of help because they did not understand what was being offered, did not see the offer as relevant to them or were not interested in career progression

25 January, 2016

DWP to have access to practice-level GP data on number of ‘fit notes’ being issued

Exercise amounts to 'state snooping' says chair of the Family Doctor Association

22 January, 2016

UK statistics authority ‘deeply concerned’ about DWP breach of ‘Pre-Release Access’ rules

Director General for Regulation seeks assurance from DWP Permanent Secretary that such an occurrence cannot and will not happen again

21 January, 2016

Centre for Health and Disability Assessments launches a network of Customer Champions

'Highly trained disability experts' will be in every assessment centre to offer advice, explain best practice or support customers

20 January, 2016

Changes to local housing allowance in Northern Ireland to reflect the four year freeze in benefit rates

New statutory rule

20 January, 2016

More needs to be done to ensure that people claim the benefits they are entitled to, says Scottish Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality

New report calls on the Scottish Government and its partners to build on the work of existing advice services

20 January, 2016

Less than 210,000 people have successfully claimed universal credit

New government figures also highlight that more people have been on the caseload for more than six months when compared to other duration bands

19 January, 2016

Northern Ireland Working Group, established by 'Fresh Start' Agreement, sets out its proposals to mitigate welfare reform

Report puts forward a mitigation strategy based on three strands

19 January, 2016

Transitional arrangements for sharing of state pension on divorce, nullity of marriage, or dissolution or annulment of civil partnership

New statutory instrument

18 January, 2016

Housing benefit and the treatment of payment protection insurance as capital

New DWP guidance

18 January, 2016

Universal credit will not incentivise work, says chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee

Failure of new benefit to encompass council tax support and free school meals will throw system into a 'mild chaos'