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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.

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

More Housing news

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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14 March, 2024

Since April 2019, two-thirds of universal credit WCA decisions have resulted in a finding of LCWRA

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14 March, 2024

Seven in ten PIP appeals cleared at a tribunal hearing are overturned in favour of the claimant

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14 March, 2024

Amendment of Employment Tribunals Rules in preparation for full implementation of new digital case management system

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14 March, 2024

Blaming high demand for a more than ten-week delay in drawing up a homeless person’s Personalised Housing Plan is ‘not good enough’ and creates real injustice

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14 March, 2024

Extending temporary easement of suitability obligations on England’s local authorities to help manage increased homelessness pressures due to humanitarian crises and broader migration pressures

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14 March, 2024

Welsh Government launches consultation on proposed changes to its council tax reduction scheme

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14 March, 2024

Annual revaluation of earnings factors used for the calculation of additional state pension and guaranteed minimum pension in Northern Ireland

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13 March, 2024

First ever parliamentary inquiry into young and young adult carers reveals lack of support is having a ‘devastating’ impact

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13 March, 2024

Debt advice organisations call for stronger protection for tenants who fall into rent arrears than those currently included in Renters (Reform) Bill

More Debt news

13 March, 2024

Failure to consider every change in earnings through period of overpayment amounted to error of law

More Welfare rights case law

13 March, 2024

If next government wants to ‘fix’ social care it must increase funding and reform system to make it fairer for service users and their carers

More Community care news

13 March, 2024

Carers Trust launches Young Carers Covenant with the aim of transforming the lives of more than a million children and young adult carers

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