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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.

4 March, 2024

Statutory entitlement to a week of unpaid carer’s leave from day one of employment

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4 March, 2024

Possession claims in England and Wales included as specified ‘relevant proceedings’ in the course of which the county court may make a Domestic Abuse Protection Order

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4 March, 2024

Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry into government’s progress in supporting disability employment

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4 March, 2024

DWP and Social Security Scotland start transferring carer’s allowance awards made to people living in Scotland to carer support payment

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4 March, 2024

Scottish Social Justice Minister calls on UK Government to increase reserved benefits to match the level of support provided by Scottish child payment

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4 March, 2024

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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1 March, 2024

Court of Appeal rules that there is no requirement for a universal credit claimant to request backdating before their claim is determined

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1 March, 2024

Only around 1,000 of the tax credits claimants who were sent a universal credit migration notice in the first nine months of 2023 were granted an extension to the claim deadline

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1 March, 2024

DWP confirms closure of a further 42 temporary jobcentres in sixth phase of decommissioning programme   

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1 March, 2024

Number of households in temporary accommodation in September 2023 was up by 10 per cent on previous year

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1 March, 2024

National insurance earnings limits and thresholds for 2024/2025

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1 March, 2024

Amendment of Picketing Code of Practice to reflect how new anti-strikes regime affects unions that fail to take reasonable steps to comply with work notice requirements

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1 March, 2024

Ombudsman finds that a local council appeared to forget about a homeless family that it had initially accepted a duty to house, leading to the family having to sofa surf for 12 months

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1 March, 2024

Round-up of recent Upper Tribunal housing case law

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1 March, 2024

Round-up of recent decisions of the Housing Ombudsman

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1 March, 2024

Two thirds of those referred to the Work and Health Programme have started on the programme

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1 March, 2024

Department for Communities in Northern Ireland publishes universal credit, benefit cap and PIP statistics for period to November 2023

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29 February, 2024

Annual snapshot of rough sleeping in England reveals ‘appalling’ spike in numbers

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29 February, 2024

Most households claiming tax credits have been able to make the transition to universal credit successfully with minimal support, according to the DWP

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