4 September, 2024
4 September, 2024
However, new statistics also show that the total amount of overpayments outstanding continued to fall as councils recovered or wrote off more than they identified
4 September, 2024
New statutory instrument
3 September, 2024
Trussell Trust says that hunger and hardship are out of control, and calls for a protected minimum floor in universal credit to safeguard incomes against deductions, and for links between rents and benefits to be restored
2 September, 2024
Department's Touchbase update advises that all affected claimants will now be issued a migration notice to ensure that they can safely move to universal credit before tax credits close in April 2025
2 September, 2024
In addition, response to FOI request reveals that analysis confirmed that, for many families, universal credit is insufficient to keep them above the absolute poverty line, with or without the £20 uplift
2 September, 2024
2 September, 2024
Work and Pensions Secretary confirms that more than £420 million will go to local authorities in England, with a further £79 million for the devolved administrations, to help vulnerable people with the cost of their energy, food and water
2 September, 2024
GMcA [Appointee] v Department for Communities (PIP)
[2024] NICom 23
C7/24-25 (PIP)
30 August, 2024
Communities Minister says that maintaining universal entitlement to the payment for winter 2024/2025 would cost more than £40 million even without taking into account any additional delivery or staffing costs
30 August, 2024
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v VB and another (UC)
[2024] UKUT 212 (AAC)
UA-2021-000531-USTA
30 August, 2024
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v NC
[2024] UKUT 251 (AAC)
UA-2023-001781-ESA
30 August, 2024
However, DWP customer experience survey also finds that a third of claimants had to contact the Department more than once to explain the same information
29 August, 2024
However, while research suggests that claimants in the Intensive Work Search regime increased their earnings more, the DWP concludes that the ‘optimal’ value of the AET is not known and that, the larger any increase in the AET, the less applicable are the findings
29 August, 2024
DJ v Department for Communities (UC)
[2024] NICom21
C4/24-25(UC)
28 August, 2024
New figures include that for universal credit almost 30 per cent of households that had reached their managed migration deadline did not make a claim
27 August, 2024
However, while Keir Starmer warns of more unpopular decisions ahead, reports in the media suggest that the Household Support Fund may be extended beyond the end of September 2024
23 August, 2024
JT v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2024] UKUT 211 (AAC)
UA-2023-001449-PIP
22 August, 2024
While the DWP has launched a new take-up campaign, NAWRA warns that it has insufficient resources to process the inevitable influx of claims and risks leaving pensioners unable to heat their homes this winter
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