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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.

5 February, 2024

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

More Employment case law

2 February, 2024

Failure to provide claimant with transitional protection for loss of EDP following natural migration to universal credit was unlawful and DWP must redecide entitlement on a lawful basis

More Welfare rights case law

2 February, 2024

Tribunal’s failure to mention evidence taken during hearing in its statement of reasons for decision, and later reliance on that evidence when refusing permission to appeal, amounted to error of law

More Welfare rights case law

2 February, 2024

High Court refuses permission to bring judicial review of council’s allocation scheme despite long delay in finding claimant and her disabled child more suitable accommodation

More Housing case law

1 February, 2024

More than 60 per cent of households in receipt of universal credit housing element have rents that exceed their local housing allowance

More Welfare rights news

1 February, 2024

Former DWP Minister and Secretary of State responsible for setting up Household Support Fund call for its continuation

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1 February, 2024

High Court rules that local authority’s assessment of homeless family’s housing needs that did not account for children who ‘might reasonably be expected to reside’ with the claimant, was unlawful

More Housing case law

1 February, 2024

High Court rules that causation and proportionality tests under s.15 of Equality Act 2010 were misapplied when considering whether appellant's son's disability and consequent anti-social conduct materially influenced landlord's decision to seek possession

More Housing case law

1 February, 2024

DWP invites feedback on proposal to remove claimant error underpayments from its fraud and error statistics

More Welfare rights news

1 February, 2024

Government rejects Select Committee’s recommendations to improve council tax collection practices and replace the sanction of imprisonment

1 February, 2024

Select Committee calls for next government to reform council tax to help tackle ‘systemic underfunding’ of local councils in England

More Housing news

1 February, 2024

Round-up of recent decisions of the Housing Ombudsman

More Housing news

1 February, 2024

Round-up of recent Upper Tribunal housing case law

More Housing case law

31 January, 2024

Tribunals reached different conclusion on substantially the same facts in more than 60 per cent of PIP decisions overturned on appeal in 2022

More Welfare rights news

31 January, 2024

DWP expects that its ongoing evaluation of the household support fund will be completed ‘in the summer’

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31 January, 2024

Housing sector raises concerns about government’s proposed ‘British homes for British workers’ policy

More Housing news

31 January, 2024

Government should scrap ‘catastrophic’ two-child limit and benefit cap to prevent ever-increasing numbers of larger families falling into poverty

More Welfare rights news

31 January, 2024

Tailored approach needed to prevent people sleeping rough for the first time, DLUHC-commissioned research finds

More Housing news

31 January, 2024

Number of breathing space moratoriums registered in England and Wales increased to a record high of almost 90,000 in 2023

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