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6 March, 2024

Budget 2024: Additional Jobcentre Support pilot to be extended for further twelve months

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5 March, 2024

NAWRA raises concerns over rapid pace of managed migration to universal credit despite evidence of insufficient support and information for vulnerable claimants

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5 March, 2024

Leaders of more than 170 councils call for urgent extension to Household Support Fund

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5 March, 2024

Social security benefits uprating 2024/2025

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5 March, 2024

Offsetting carer support payment from arrears of other social security benefits

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5 March, 2024

Civil society organisations warn that plans for mass surveillance of millions of bank accounts to spot potential benefit fraud are a ‘hammer blow’ to privacy in the UK

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5 March, 2024

Retention of habitual residence for victims of forced marriage or transnational marriage abandonment

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5 March, 2024

Social Security Scotland introduces new text and email update service to let claimants know how their applications for adult or child disability payments are progressing

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4 March, 2024

Labour will have a ‘relentless focus’ on helping more people get work and get on at work, says Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary

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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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Budget 2024: Additional Jobcentre Support pilot to be extended for further twelve months

Budget 2024: Government confirms action to end inequity of people with prepayment meters being charged more up-front for their energy than other consumers

Budget 2024: Debt relief order one-off administration fees to be scrapped from April 2024

NAWRA raises concerns over rapid pace of managed migration to universal credit despite evidence of insufficient support and information for vulnerable claimants

Leaders of more than 170 councils call for urgent extension to Household Support Fund

Social security benefits uprating 2024/2025

Extending statutory protection from redundancy for employees who are on maternity, adoption or shared parental leave

Offsetting carer support payment from arrears of other social security benefits

Civil society organisations warn that plans for mass surveillance of millions of bank accounts to spot potential benefit fraud are a ‘hammer blow’ to privacy in the UK

Retention of habitual residence for victims of forced marriage or transnational marriage abandonment

Court of Appeal rules that the Right to Manage applies to any configuration of ‘premises’ with no need to specify the smallest possible configuration within those premises

Social Security Scotland introduces new text and email update service to let claimants know how their applications for adult or child disability payments are progressing

Labour will have a ‘relentless focus’ on helping more people get work and get on at work, says Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary

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

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

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

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

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

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law