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    <updated>2012-05-16T15:09:45Z</updated>
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      <title>DWP missed opportunities to detect potential problems at A4e, says National Audit Office</title>
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      <published>2012-05-16T15:09:44Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-16T15:09:45Z</updated>
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            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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       New report finds that level of fraud in current employment programmes are low, yet risks remain
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    <entry>
      <title>David Cameron considering further &amp;pound;25bn of welfare cuts</title>
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      <published>2012-05-16T15:09:19Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-16T15:09:20Z</updated>
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            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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       Report that plans include further housing benefit cuts and 'mark two' universal credit
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    <entry>
      <title>Whether refusal of child tax credit to substantial minority carer is discriminatory under the Europe</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16319</id>
      <published>2012-05-16T15:08:56Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-16T15:08:57Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
       New Supreme Court judgment
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    <entry>
      <title>Changes to lone parent obligations for those whose youngest child is aged 5 or above</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16322</id>
      <published>2012-05-16T11:18:23Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-16T11:32:24Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>shawn</name>
            <email>smach@lasa.org.uk</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
       New DWP guidance
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      <title>Treating hospital in&#45;patients as having limited capability for work</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16321</id>
      <published>2012-05-16T11:06:31Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-16T11:27:32Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>shawn</name>
            <email>smach@lasa.org.uk</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
       New DWP guidance
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      <title>DWP terminates Mandatory Work Activity contract with A4e for the South East</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16316</id>
      <published>2012-05-15T15:28:50Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-15T21:22:51Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
       Minister for Employment identifies 'serious weaknesses' in A4e's internal controls
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      <title>Amount of local housing allowance where extra bedroom required due to needs of disabled person</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16308</id>
      <published>2012-05-15T11:16:10Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-16T13:52:11Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
       New Court of Appeal judgment
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    <entry>
      <title>Work Programme providers may be paid over &amp;pound;1bn for &#8216;outcome that could have been achieved</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16307</id>
      <published>2012-05-15T10:00:18Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-15T17:07:19Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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       New Public Accounts Committee report also questions ability of providers to meet targets in face of difficult economic conditions
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    <entry>
      <title>Child benefit reforms &#8216;a disaster waiting to happen&#8217;</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16313</id>
      <published>2012-05-15T08:04:45Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-15T15:05:46Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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       Institute of Chartered Accountants warns that benefit could be paid in one year to one person and recovered the following year from someone else
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      <title>Supersession of decisions made by former appeal tribunals and Commissioners</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16306</id>
      <published>2012-05-14T14:06:58Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-14T14:35:59Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
       New statutory instrument corrects drafting errors in Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008
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    <entry>
      <title>Income support for lone parents with a child under the age of five</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16305</id>
      <published>2012-05-14T13:39:31Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-14T13:58:32Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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       New commencement order in relation to the Welfare Reform Act 2009 
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    <entry>
      <title>Iain Duncan Smith defends plan to take 500,000 claimants off disability benefits</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16301</id>
      <published>2012-05-14T11:13:31Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-14T14:50:32Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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       Cost of disability living allowance rising well ahead of illness, sickness and disability, says Secretary of State
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    <entry>
      <title>DWP letters to lone parent claimants with child approaching seven years being sent in error</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16291</id>
      <published>2012-05-11T13:22:10Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-11T14:42:11Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
       New HB guidance 
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    <entry>
      <title>Claimants&#8217; views on personal independence payment application process</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16289</id>
      <published>2012-05-11T09:38:32Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-14T09:00:33Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
       New DWP research highlights claimants' expectations that they will not be treated well 
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    <entry>
      <title>Second Welfare Reform Act 2012 commencement order</title>
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      <id>tag:http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news,2012:/6.16287</id>
      <published>2012-05-10T13:45:56Z</published>
      <updated>2012-05-15T13:50:57Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>ros</name>
            <email>rwhite@lasa.org.uk</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
       New statutory instrument brings into force provisions relating to claimant commitment, sanctions and civil penalties
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