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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.

22 February, 2024

Welsh Government publishes first evaluation of its basic income for care leavers pilot

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21 February, 2024

Next government needs to make ‘quick win’ changes to social security system, as claimants report it is leaving them ‘scared, exhausted and drained’

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21 February, 2024

‘More work needs to be done’ on HMRC’s plan to allow people who did not claim child benefit to receive national insurance credits

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21 February, 2024

New food bank signposting slip is not a change in policy but will better align DWP practices with GDPR

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21 February, 2024

Miscellaneous amendments to tax credit regulations including new disregards of certain compensation payments and changes relating to the roll out of Scottish disability assistance

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21 February, 2024

One in eight employees in the UK were paid less than the real living wage in April 2023

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20 February, 2024

Jobcentre has become a ‘universal credit monitoring service’ rather than an employment service, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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20 February, 2024

Government publishes updated draft statutory code of practice on ‘fire and rehire’ tactics

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20 February, 2024

More than 50,000 victims of domestic abuse in safe accommodation received support under duty on local authorities in 2022/2023

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20 February, 2024

Failings by Hammersmith and Fulham Council left residents ‘feeling anything but secure in their homes’

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20 February, 2024

Welsh Government launches consultation on raising weekly maximum charge for adult non-residential care and support

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19 February, 2024

Government rushes in changes to Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme to avoid triggering a ‘misplaced surge in applications’

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19 February, 2024

DWP publishes guidance for clinicians on the severe disability group and the simplified assessment processes for PIP and LCWRA

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19 February, 2024

Government announces introduction of short-term lets register in England

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19 February, 2024

Circumstances of claimant’s case did not require the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland to use power to call for further medical evidence

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19 February, 2024

High Court considers whether a house in multiple occupancy should be assessed as a single dwelling or separate dwellings for council tax purposes

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19 February, 2024

Northern Ireland Court of Appeal finds no procedural unfairness in Industrial Tribunal’s handling of case management and final hearing of litigant in person’s disability discrimination claim

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19 February, 2024

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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16 February, 2024

DWP to stop referring claimants to food banks because it involves the ‘inappropriate’ use of personal claimant information

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