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News and case law

Select Committee calls on National Audit Office to investigate problems with carer’s allowance system

Any future early legal advice pilot should be co-designed with advice stakeholders, and acknowledge value of existing services

Government commits to ensuring that the Ombudsman has the skills and knowledge to handle disputes about whether landlords unreasonably refuse tenants’ requests to keep a pet

Increase in prescribed amount of overall indebtedness and the value of a vehicle that can be disregarded for the purposes of making a debt relief order

Scottish Parliament consents to UK Parliament legislating for DWP’s new powers to access claimants’ bank account data on its behalf

Ending homelessness should sit alongside new First Minister’s ambition to end child poverty in Scotland ‘as a top priority’

Transfer of tax credits claimants over state pension age to universal credit or pension credit

Preserving existing protection for mixed-age couples on them being issued with a universal credit migration notice

Reports and briefings

The fight for home is a fight against racism

Poverty stigma: A glue that holds poverty in place

Caught up in the net: How universal credit benefit suspensions are affecting people who come to Citizens Advice for help

Discussion

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Grants for rough sleeping and homelessness evaluation…

UC sanctions: Journalist request

Rightsjobs

Information and Advice Trainer

Advice Manager

Caseworker

Training and events

Universal credit for ill health and disability

Universal Credit

Benefits for Non-EEA Nationals