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22 March, 2024

Unpaid carers forced to reduce working hours to remain eligible for carer’s allowance for fifth consecutive year

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22 March, 2024

Ensuring that increase in benefit cap levels in Northern Ireland from April 2023 continues in force

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21 March, 2024

MPs call for ‘uprating guarantee’ for working-age benefits and local housing allowance

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21 March, 2024

Parliamentary Ombudsman recommends that DWP compensates women affected by its failure to adequately communicate changes to state pension age, and asks Parliament to intervene to hold it to account

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21 March, 2024

DWP administrative exercise has identified almost 100,000 cases of underpaid state pension

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21 March, 2024

New poverty and low income statistics suggest that this parliament is on course to be the worst on record for living standards

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21 March, 2024

Ombudsman issues Adverse Findings Notice to nursing home who failed to refund fees paid after resident passed away

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21 March, 2024

Miscellaneous amendments to regulations relating to regulated care services in Wales

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21 March, 2024

Temporary modification of method used by rent officers or First-tier Tribunal for Scotland to determine rent increases in Scotland following expiry of emergency rent control measures

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21 March, 2024

Average Band D council tax bills in England to increase by just over 5 per cent in 2024/2025

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20 March, 2024

Years of fragmented funding and absence of clear roadmap have brought adult social care sector in England ‘to its knees’

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20 March, 2024

Miscellaneous amendments to primary and secondary legislation as a consequence of the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023

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20 March, 2024

Minimum wage rates for agricultural workers in Scotland 2024/2025

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20 March, 2024

Northern Ireland Executive to establish dedicated team to help grow local network of credit unions

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20 March, 2024

Welsh Government confirms new National Office for Care and Support to be launched in April 2024

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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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