News and case law

5 June, 2024

Tribunal’s failure to apply temporary absence from GB disregard to claimant caught by Covid-19 travel restrictions amounted to error of law

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4 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024: JRF calls on Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to demonstrate that they are serious about addressing hardship

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4 June, 2024

Scottish Government says it made good progress in reducing child poverty in 2023/2024 despite ongoing requirement to mitigate impact of UK welfare policies such as the benefit cap

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3 June, 2024

DWP is deducting £1.6 billion a year from low-income households for debt repayments

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31 May, 2024

Criminal activity counted as work and receipts from that activity counted as income for ESA purposes

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31 May, 2024

Scottish local authorities spent almost £85 million on discretionary housing payments in 2023/2024

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30 May, 2024

More than a third of claimants referred to first phase of DWP’s Universal Support employment programme did not then make a start

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30 May, 2024

Department for Communities in Northern Ireland publishes universal credit, benefit cap and PIP statistics for period to February 2024

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29 May, 2024

More than four in ten frontline DWP staff say they have not received adequate training to enable them to deal with safeguarding issues appropriately

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29 May, 2024

Transfer of tax credits claimants over state pension age to universal credit or pension credit in Northern Ireland

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28 May, 2024

SSAC says that, having scrutinised the DWP’s WCA proposals, it will take a ‘closer look’ at some aspects over the summer

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Tribunal’s failure to apply temporary absence from GB disregard to claimant caught by Covid-19 travel restrictions amounted to error of law

Election 2024: JRF calls on Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to demonstrate that they are serious about addressing hardship

Scottish Government says it made good progress in reducing child poverty in 2023/2024 despite ongoing requirement to mitigate impact of UK welfare policies such as the benefit cap

Setting of minimum standards to require private landlords in Northern Ireland to provide and maintain fire, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in their rental properties

DWP is deducting £1.6 billion a year from low-income households for debt repayments

Round-up of recent Upper Tribunal housing case law

Round-up of recent Ombudsman decisions and reports

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Criminal activity counted as work and receipts from that activity counted as income for ESA purposes

Scottish local authorities spent almost £85 million on discretionary housing payments in 2023/2024

More than a third of claimants referred to first phase of DWP’s Universal Support employment programme did not then make a start

Department for Communities in Northern Ireland publishes universal credit, benefit cap and PIP statistics for period to February 2024

More than four in ten frontline DWP staff say they have not received adequate training to enable them to deal with safeguarding issues appropriately

Consultation launched in Scotland on long-term reform of statutory debt solutions

Transfer of tax credits claimants over state pension age to universal credit or pension credit in Northern Ireland

Select Committee says there is ‘little evidence’ that DLUHC is treating disabled people’s needs as a priority in housing policy

SSAC says that, having scrutinised the DWP’s WCA proposals, it will take a ‘closer look’ at some aspects over the summer

Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-engagement to be brought into effect on 18 July 2024

Group of cross- party MPs and peers calls for a new National Carers Strategy