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19 April, 2024

Further increase to Administrative Earnings Threshold following Prime Minister’s statement on ‘moral mission’ to get people back to work

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19 April, 2024

Government publishes consultation on reform of fit notes process to ‘better understand who needs additional support’

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19 April, 2024

TUC sets out proposals for how the use of AI in the workplace might be regulated to protect the rights and interests of workers, employees and jobseekers

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19 April, 2024

High Court finds council breached duty to provide ‘suitable’ interim accommodation having left a family in B&B accommodation for six months before deciding their homelessness application

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19 April, 2024

Scottish Parliament votes against motion on a Bill to establish a Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council

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19 April, 2024

Scottish Parliamentary Committees launch joint consultation on Housing (Scotland) Bill

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19 April, 2024

Increase in registered rents in Northern Ireland 2024/2025

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18 April, 2024

Lawyers warn that government’s new ‘bank spying powers’ would breach privacy rights

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18 April, 2024

Number of claimants assessed as having LCW instead of LCWRA following WCA reforms now expected to exceed 400,000

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17 April, 2024

Supreme Court rules that Trade Union and Labour Relations Act breaches human rights of employees by failing to protect against detriments short of dismissal for participation in lawful strike action

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17 April, 2024

High Court rules widower retained secure tenancy and right to buy despite living elsewhere

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17 April, 2024

Scottish Government announces pilot of pension age disability payment will commence in five local authority areas from October 2024

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17 April, 2024

Motion agreed calling for NI Minister for Communities to consider proposal to offset the two-child limit by introducing a better start larger families payment

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16 April, 2024

High Court permits family to remain in former matrimonial home, despite bankrupt’s attempts to ‘sabotage’ outcome of Family Court proceedings

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16 April, 2024

DWP confirms it will be laying regulations to further raise the administrative earnings threshold ‘in the coming weeks’

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16 April, 2024

High Court in Northern Ireland considers whether a disabled claimant’s living arrangements satisfied the tenancy condition for an award of a Disabled Facilities Grant

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15 April, 2024

Policy makers need to adapt universal credit ‘to tackle Britain’s new challenge of long-term sickness’, Resolution Foundation says

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15 April, 2024

ICO orders DWP to publish ‘Move to Universal Credit’ readiness and scaling assessments for managed migration

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15 April, 2024

Government’s ‘inaction’ in abolishing section 21 evictions has led to tens of thousands of households unnecessarily facing homelessness

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