News and case law

11 June, 2024

Department for Communities highlights magnitude of NI Budget cuts in 2024/2025 will undoubtedly have a ‘continued significant and adverse impact’ on its ability to deliver public services

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10 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024 Manifesto round-up | Liberal Democrats: Welfare Rights

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10 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024: Conservative plans to reduce social security spending by £12 billion by end of next parliament look ‘extremely challenging’, says IFS

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10 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024: Families with children have been hit hardest by tax and benefit changes since 2010

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10 June, 2024

Eligibility criteria and entitlement rules for pension age disability payment in Scotland

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7 June, 2024

Court of Appeal rules that refusal of bereavement benefit claim by surviving cohabitee was not discriminatory

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7 June, 2024

Election 2024: End Child Poverty Coalition research finds strong correlation between local areas with high child poverty rates and prevalence of two-child limit

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7 June, 2024

First-tier Tribunal was not entitled to hear and decide PIP appeal as a two-person tribunal

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7 June, 2024

Senior President of Tribunals issues Practice Direction on providing written reasons for decisions in the First-tier Tribunal

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6 June, 2024

PCS and GMB unions co-ordinate joint week-long strike involving Jobcentre security guards

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6 June, 2024

Less than a third of the almost half a million people who have completed 12 months on the Restart scheme have achieved sustained employment of six months or more

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5 June, 2024

CPAG sets out three-step plan to make universal credit the ‘safety net that families need’

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5 June, 2024

DWP advises of some ‘small scale’ Move to UC activity for ESA claimants this month

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Department for Communities highlights magnitude of NI Budget cuts in 2024/2025 will undoubtedly have a ‘continued significant and adverse impact’ on its ability to deliver public services

Election 2024 Manifesto round-up | Liberal Democrats: Welfare Rights

Election 2024 Manifesto round-up | Liberal Democrats: Housing

Election 2024 Manifesto round-up | Liberal Democrats: Employment

Election 2024 Manifesto round-up | Liberal Democrats: Community Care

Election 2024: Conservative plans to reduce social security spending by £12 billion by end of next parliament look ‘extremely challenging’, says IFS

Election 2024: Families with children have been hit hardest by tax and benefit changes since 2010

Eligibility criteria and entitlement rules for pension age disability payment in Scotland

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Court of Appeal rules that refusal of bereavement benefit claim by surviving cohabitee was not discriminatory

Election 2024: End Child Poverty Coalition research finds strong correlation between local areas with high child poverty rates and prevalence of two-child limit

First-tier Tribunal was not entitled to hear and decide PIP appeal as a two-person tribunal

Senior President of Tribunals issues Practice Direction on providing written reasons for decisions in the First-tier Tribunal

Scottish Parliament passes Bill that enables creation of a mental health moratorium as part of Scotland’s statutory debt moratorium scheme

PCS and GMB unions co-ordinate joint week-long strike involving Jobcentre security guards

Less than a third of the almost half a million people who have completed 12 months on the Restart scheme have achieved sustained employment of six months or more

More than half the requests for local government-funded social care in England in 2022/2023 resulted in no support or the provision of only advice or signposting

CPAG sets out three-step plan to make universal credit the ‘safety net that families need’

DWP advises of some ‘small scale’ Move to UC activity for ESA claimants this month