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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.

16 April, 2024

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

More Welfare rights news

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

More Housing case law

15 April, 2024

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

More Welfare rights news

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

More Housing news

15 April, 2024

Mims Davies appointed as Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work

More Welfare rights news

15 April, 2024

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

More Employment case law

12 April, 2024

Allocation of additional funding to local authorities to support the costs of implementing welfare reform changes in 2024/2025

More Welfare rights news

11 April, 2024

New research exposes ‘devastating impact’ of funding gaps for third sector organisations that provide employment support to those furthest from the labour market

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11 April, 2024

Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales instructs magistrates to restart listing applications for warrants of entry for purpose of installing pre-payment meters

More Debt news

11 April, 2024

Growing crisis of homelessness and destitution among newly recognised refugees results from a failing system that is ‘dysfunctional by design’ and ‘discriminatory in delivery’

More Housing news

11 April, 2024

War pensions uprating for 2024/2025

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10 April, 2024

DWP confirms plans for ‘enhanced support customer journey’ for claimants who require additional help with managed migration

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10 April, 2024

High Court holds that council did not breach Equality Act obligations by failing to carry out remedial works to meet all the needs of a disabled tenant with heightened sensitivity to noise and smell

More Housing case law

10 April, 2024

Local authority concedes judicial review challenge to decision requiring man with autism and learning difficulties to contribute more than £2,000 per year towards care costs

More Community care news

10 April, 2024

Almost 7.5 million adults in the UK were struggling to pay bills and make credit repayments in January 2024

More Debt news

10 April, 2024

Work and Pensions Secretary and CPS welcome convictions in ‘largest ever benefit fraud case’

More Welfare rights news