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Updated 12 September by Charles

Enhanced Review Team

I have seen quite a few of these. They will probably be arguing that the…

Updated 12 September by Wensleyfoss

Winter Fuel Payments restricted to PC claimants

Paul_Treloar_AgeUK - 31 July 2024 04:05 PMWe’ve started a petition against the changes. Please do…

Posted 12 September by PollyT

Help with SMI loan and joint mortgage

I’m advising a client who has just migrated to UC from IS. She had an…

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News and case law

Supreme Court rules that an employer’s right to terminate its employees’ contracts could not be exercised for the purpose of depriving the employees of a previously agreed ‘permanent’ pay enhancement

DWP issues updated guidance as new Health Assessment Advisory Service contracts go live

Need for a claimant to show only a genuine and sufficient link to the United Kingdom and not to the UK social security system

Revised rules of the Supreme Court laid before Parliament

Debbie Abrahams elected as Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee

Lords vote against motion to annul regulations that restrict eligibility for the winter fuel payment in England and Wales

17 per cent of universal credit WCAs in the quarter to May 2024 were reassessments

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee in Scotland issues call for views in relation to its scrutiny of Scottish Housing Regulator

Reports and briefings

Designing out deductions: How to address the welfare debt trap

Poverty and financial hardship of unpaid carers in the UK

Digital Social Security: Towards disciplinary or relational futures?

Discussion

Enhanced Review Team

Winter Fuel Payments restricted to PC claimants

Help with SMI loan and joint mortgage

Rightsjobs

Senior Welfare Rights Adviser - Adult Social Care

Advice Supervisor – Welfare Rights or Housing Specialism

Welfare Rights Specialist

Training and events

Disability Rights workshop for employers

CPAG Welfare Rights Conference 2024

Valuing Lived Experience