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Daily news and case law updates across five areas of social welfare law: welfare benefits, debt, housing, employment and community care. Subscribe for updates.

1 December, 2023

DWP says those that lose passported health benefits under plans to close the benefit claims of sanctioned claimants are likely to have prescriptions for ‘only minor health conditions’

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1 December, 2023

Government confirms that increase to minimum income floor for self-employed lead carers of children aged 3-12 will be introduced from January 2024

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1 December, 2023

MPs call for DLUHC action to ensure councils in England are not aggressively chasing council tax debt from those who can least afford it

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1 December, 2023

Consent of cared for person is not a necessary part of a claim for and award of carer’s allowance

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1 December, 2023

Provisions creating statutory entitlement to carer’s leave to come into force from 4 December 2023

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1 December, 2023

Round-up of recent Upper Tribunal housing case law

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1 December, 2023

Round-up of recent decisions of the Housing Ombudsman

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30 November, 2023

Government's amendments to Data Protection and Digital Information Bill that allow DWP to order banks to run automated surveillance of benefit recipients are 'wholly inappropriate'

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30 November, 2023

Debt advisers call for MaPS to address ‘chronic’ lack of capacity in the debt advice sector

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30 November, 2023

Almost three-quarters of universal credit work coach appointments are held face-to-face

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30 November, 2023

Almost £500 million has been paid out as a result of DWP administrative exercise to correct state pension payments

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30 November, 2023

New rough sleeping data measures show that more than 8,000 people were sleeping rough in England in September 2023

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30 November, 2023

Number of homeless households with children in temporary accommodation in England continues to increase to reach almost 70,000

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30 November, 2023

Revaluation of ‘protected payments’ and pension sharing ‘debits and credits’ in the new state pension in Northern Ireland from April 2024

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30 November, 2023

Ensuring that a Category D retirement pension in Northern Ireland can continue to be claimed by people residing in an EEA state or Switzerland

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29 November, 2023

DWP Minister confirms that no decision has yet been made in relation to the Household Support Fund in 2024/2025

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29 November, 2023

Public Accounts Committee warns of risk that DWP’s Health Transformation Programme will not deliver promised benefits for claimants

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29 November, 2023

Minimum service level regulations fail to allay MPs’ concerns that severe consequences of non-compliance on employees may amount to disproportionate interference with Article 11 ECHR rights

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29 November, 2023

Revaluation of ‘protected payments’ and pension sharing ‘debits and credits’ in the new state pension in relation to those reaching pensionable age on or after 9 April 2024

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