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16 September, 2020 Open access

Extending Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme by eight months could reduce unemployment in Scotland by more than 60,000, says Scottish Government

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16 September, 2020 Open access

FCA outlines proposals to ensure that firms provide tailored support to users of consumer credit and overdrafts who continue to face payment difficulties due to coronavirus

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16 September, 2020

Ombudsman calls on government to use planned social care reforms to ensure providers advise people how to complain

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16 September, 2020 Open access

Welsh Government announces intention to extend six month notice of eviction requirement to March 2021

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16 September, 2020 Open access

Contingency arrangements in the First-Tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic extended to March 2021

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16 September, 2020 Open access

Mayor of London calls for freeze on private rents for two years

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15 September, 2020

Court of Appeal rejects challenge to increase in women’s state pension age

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15 September, 2020

DWP provides update on what it is doing to reimburse up to 130,000 married women who may have lost out on state pension entitlement as a result of its falure to apply an automatic uplift

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15 September, 2020

Nearly 8 million people in England have some form of housing need

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15 September, 2020 Open access

Labour Party leader calls for a ‘life raft’ of targeted support to replace the Job Retention Scheme while the UK remains in the ‘choppy waters’ of COVID-19

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15 September, 2020

New Presidential Guidance issued in relation to the use of the Welsh language in legal proceedings

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15 September, 2020

Property Chamber tribunal caseworkers approved to carry out all decisions that a judge may make except ‘substantive final decisions’

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15 September, 2020 Open access

PIP new claims and change of circumstances requests show gradual recovery to near-normal levels in quarter ending July 2020

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15 September, 2020 Open access

Black and minority ethnic workers have ‘shouldered more risk’ during coronavirus pandemic, says TUC

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15 September, 2020

Calculation and payment of housing benefit subsidy for 2019/2020 and 2020/2021

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14 September, 2020 Open access

Government’s strategy of ‘mass testing’ for COVID-19 will require ‘structured financial and social support’ to promote self-isolation and mitigate impacts on inequalities

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14 September, 2020 Open access

Government’s refusal to disregard COVID-19 compensation payments for means-tested benefit purposes is ‘lacking in reason and compassion’, says Shadow Secretary of State

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14 September, 2020 Open access

Now is not the time to bring more claimants into Jobcentres, says Public and Commercial Services Union

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14 September, 2020

Communities Minister announces extension to Northern Ireland Executive’s Child Poverty Strategy

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