News and case law

16 August, 2024

Pilot data-matching exercise in Scotland identifies just 17 cases where claimants were not entitled to benefits

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15 August, 2024

‘Cliff-edge in support’ looms in September when Household Support Fund is due to expire

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15 August, 2024

Private contractor announces cuts to number of security guards in jobcentres

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15 August, 2024

Child Poverty Taskforce meets for first time to start developing cross-government strategy to reduce and alleviate child poverty in the UK

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15 August, 2024

Welsh Government to legislate to treat universal credit claimants as having automatically applied for council tax reduction from April 2025

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14 August, 2024

Scottish Government ‘left with no choice’ but to follow UK Government’s decision to restrict winter fuel payments to older people who receive means-tested benefits

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14 August, 2024

Tribunal should have decided for itself whether to average the earnings of a carer’s allowance claimant over a ‘recognisable cycle’ instead of reviewing the rationality of the Secretary of State’s decision not to do so

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14 August, 2024

Supreme Court confirms that it has decided to proceed with revision of its rules, including introduction of new case management portal

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13 August, 2024

DWP confirms it has started to issue tax credit closure notices to state pension age tax credit claimants in scope to move to pension credit

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13 August, 2024

Failure to attend or participate in a mandatory interview accounted for more than 90 per cent of adverse sanction decisions in 2023/2024

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13 August, 2024

Almost a third of claimants who have been sent a migration notice failed to claim universal credit by their final deadline

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12 August, 2024

DWP is making new errors on recent state pension claims, says former Pensions Minister

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12 August, 2024

Court of Session confirms that deductions may be made from pension credit to repay crisis loans and that obligation to make repayment does not extinguish after five years

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8 August, 2024

DWP exploring ‘transformed decision-making model’ to enable quality decisions to be made on some new PIP claims without a health assessment

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Pilot data-matching exercise in Scotland identifies just 17 cases where claimants were not entitled to benefits

‘Cliff-edge in support’ looms in September when Household Support Fund is due to expire

Private contractor announces cuts to number of security guards in jobcentres

Child Poverty Taskforce meets for first time to start developing cross-government strategy to reduce and alleviate child poverty in the UK

Consultation on new standards for debt enforcement industry launched by independent oversight body

Family of severely disabled woman receives £37,000 compensation from Integrated Care Board for its failure to properly arrange care package funded by NHS continuing healthcare

Welsh Government to legislate to treat universal credit claimants as having automatically applied for council tax reduction from April 2025

Scottish Government ‘left with no choice’ but to follow UK Government’s decision to restrict winter fuel payments to older people who receive means-tested benefits

Tribunal should have decided for itself whether to average the earnings of a carer’s allowance claimant over a ‘recognisable cycle’ instead of reviewing the rationality of the Secretary of State’s decision not to do so

Supreme Court confirms that it has decided to proceed with revision of its rules, including introduction of new case management portal

DWP confirms it has started to issue tax credit closure notices to state pension age tax credit claimants in scope to move to pension credit

Failure to attend or participate in a mandatory interview accounted for more than 90 per cent of adverse sanction decisions in 2023/2024

Almost a third of claimants who have been sent a migration notice failed to claim universal credit by their final deadline

DWP is making new errors on recent state pension claims, says former Pensions Minister

Court of Session confirms that deductions may be made from pension credit to repay crisis loans and that obligation to make repayment does not extinguish after five years

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

High Court rules B&B accommodation offered to intentionally homeless family in priority need was unsuitable due to children’s mental health needs

DWP exploring ‘transformed decision-making model’ to enable quality decisions to be made on some new PIP claims without a health assessment

Shelter calls on government to establish a cross-department homelessness strategy as number of children in temporary accommodation hits ‘shameful’ new record of more than 150,000