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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.

19 March, 2024

Government has failed to create any transformative change in progressing disabled people’s rights, says Disability Rights UK

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19 March, 2024

3.3 million claimants were entitled to PIP in England and Wales in January 2024

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19 March, 2024

Just over 10,000 claimants were referred to the Health Transformation Programme assessment service in year to January 2024

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19 March, 2024

Number of households subject to benefit cap decreased by 6 per cent in three months to November 2023

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19 March, 2024

High Court rules that Secretary of State’s failure to collect statistical monitoring data in relation to accommodating pregnant and new mother asylum seekers breached PSED

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19 March, 2024

High Court rules that equitable doctrine of proprietary estoppel prevents assertion of a right to possession under a lease of part of a building that was subsequently extended and occupied by the claimant

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19 March, 2024

DWP sets out how it is currently supporting those with additional support needs and explains its ‘future aspirations’

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19 March, 2024

Uprating of minimum agricultural wage rates in Wales for 2024/2025

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18 March, 2024

Scottish Government to introduce an adult DLA for existing claimants as an alternative to ADP

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18 March, 2024

Government called on to put Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard on a statutory footing

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18 March, 2024

Provisions necessary to give full effect to the uprating of social security benefits and pensions in 2024/2025

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18 March, 2024

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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18 March, 2024

Welsh homelessness and housing organisations urge members of the Senedd to challenge UK Government’s plans to criminalise rough sleeping

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18 March, 2024

DWP issues details of the new Rent Rebate Subsidy Limitation arrangements for Welsh local authorities in 2024/2025

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18 March, 2024

Northern Ireland Court of Appeal finds tribunal’s decision to uphold the dismissal of a postal worker, that was clearly a gross over reaction to the worker’s very limited wrongdoing, was ‘perverse’

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15 March, 2024

DWP’s assessment of bias in its use of machine learning ‘has not identified any areas of concern’

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15 March, 2024

Government urged to extend move-on period for people granted refugee status from 28 to 56 days

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15 March, 2024

Bill introduced to provide for changes to the high income child benefit charge

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15 March, 2024

Miscellaneous amendments to social security legislation in Northern Ireland including in relation to migration of legacy benefit claimants to universal credit

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