News and case law

7 October, 2024

Time limit for applying to Northern Ireland Court of Appeal for leave to appeal to the UK Supreme Court

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4 October, 2024

Claimant was not entitled to PIP mobility component awarded after she had reached pensionable age, and the DWP was entitled to remove it on revision for official error

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4 October, 2024

When a claimant lacks capacity and has an appointee, a tribunal should consider the nature of the appointment and whether it provides evidence to support point-scoring PIP descriptors

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3 October, 2024

While abolishing the two-child limit would be a quick and cost-effective way of reducing child poverty, it is ‘no silver bullet’

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3 October, 2024

More than half of local authorities allocated some Household Support Fund to the provision of advice services in the year to March 2024

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3 October, 2024

Almost 80,000 social security and child support appeals were outstanding in June 2024

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3 October, 2024

Scottish Parliament calls on UK Government to permanently uprate LHA and scrap the bedroom tax in its Autumn Budget

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2 October, 2024

EHRC launches consultation on updated Code of Practice relating to discrimination, harassment and victimisation in services and public functions

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1 October, 2024

Expansion of cold weather payments scheme could be the best way to direct energy support to people in need this winter

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1 October, 2024

Government needs to review passported benefits and their interaction with universal credit in order to improve work incentives and avoid cliff edges in entitlement

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1 October, 2024

Ability to establish a relationship when assessing ‘engaging with others’ PIP activity requires evidence of more than mere visits to shopping centres

More Welfare rights case law

Rough sleeping could ‘quickly spiral out of control’ if funding is not extended beyond March 2025

Time limit for applying to Northern Ireland Court of Appeal for leave to appeal to the UK Supreme Court

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Claimant was not entitled to PIP mobility component awarded after she had reached pensionable age, and the DWP was entitled to remove it on revision for official error

When a claimant lacks capacity and has an appointee, a tribunal should consider the nature of the appointment and whether it provides evidence to support point-scoring PIP descriptors

More than 10,000 Ukrainian households have been found to be owed statutory homelessness duty in England since the Russian invasion in February 2022

While abolishing the two-child limit would be a quick and cost-effective way of reducing child poverty, it is ‘no silver bullet’

More than 320,000 households faced homelessness in 2023/2024, the highest on record

More than half of local authorities allocated some Household Support Fund to the provision of advice services in the year to March 2024

Almost 80,000 social security and child support appeals were outstanding in June 2024

Scottish Parliament calls on UK Government to permanently uprate LHA and scrap the bedroom tax in its Autumn Budget

EHRC launches consultation on updated Code of Practice relating to discrimination, harassment and victimisation in services and public functions

Council leaders across Scotland withdraw support for National Care Service (Scotland) Bill

Expansion of cold weather payments scheme could be the best way to direct energy support to people in need this winter

Government needs to review passported benefits and their interaction with universal credit in order to improve work incentives and avoid cliff edges in entitlement

Government should introduce a Fair Banking Act to extend affordable credit to all financially excluded individuals

Ability to establish a relationship when assessing ‘engaging with others’ PIP activity requires evidence of more than mere visits to shopping centres

Round-up of recent Upper Tribunal housing case law

Round-up of recent Ombudsman decisions and reports