News and case law

30 September, 2024

DWP issues new winter fuel payment guidance following changes introduced from 16 September 2024

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27 September, 2024

Number of pension credit claims being made each week has now more than tripled compared to period leading up to government’s announcement of changes to the winter fuel payment

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27 September, 2024

Work and Pensions Secretary issues Household Support Fund Grant Determination for the six month period to 31 March 2025

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27 September, 2024

Scottish Government publishes equality impact assessment on its new pension age winter heating payment

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26 September, 2024

DWP and Scottish Government face legal challenge to decision to cut winter fuel payment

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26 September, 2024

When extrapolating ability from activities that are not in descriptors, tribunal must use activities that are genuinely comparable to the ones being assessed

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26 September, 2024

Tribunal’s failure to take account of Secretary of State’s pre-hearing PIP ‘offer’ of additional point-scoring descriptors amounted to an error of law

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26 September, 2024

Scottish Government lays draft regulations for pension age winter heating payment

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26 September, 2024

Scotland’s Finance Secretary calls for abolition of two-child limit and delivery of an Essentials Guarantee to be included in UK Government’s Autumn Budget

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26 September, 2024

Northern Ireland’s hardship fund will not be restored in 2024/2025 due to ‘financial constraints’

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25 September, 2024

Work and Pensions Secretary says that investing in the discretionary Household Support Fund will help the poorest pensioners and families ‘who need it most’

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25 September, 2024

DWP issues guidance for claimants migrating to universal credit on how the transitional element is calculated

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25 September, 2024

Northern Ireland anti-poverty strategy needs a ‘whole-system and all-government’ approach

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24 September, 2024

Prime Minister commits to supporting those at risk of homelessness and protecting the triple lock, but also pledges to ‘get the welfare bill down’ and ‘legislate to stop benefit fraud’

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DWP issues new winter fuel payment guidance following changes introduced from 16 September 2024

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Number of pension credit claims being made each week has now more than tripled compared to period leading up to government’s announcement of changes to the winter fuel payment

Work and Pensions Secretary issues Household Support Fund Grant Determination for the six month period to 31 March 2025

Scottish Government publishes equality impact assessment on its new pension age winter heating payment

DWP and Scottish Government face legal challenge to decision to cut winter fuel payment

When extrapolating ability from activities that are not in descriptors, tribunal must use activities that are genuinely comparable to the ones being assessed

Tribunal’s failure to take account of Secretary of State’s pre-hearing PIP ‘offer’ of additional point-scoring descriptors amounted to an error of law

Ombudsman reiterates call for independent care providers to be required to signpost complainants to its service in the same way as council-funded providers

Scottish Government lays draft regulations for pension age winter heating payment

Scotland’s Finance Secretary calls for abolition of two-child limit and delivery of an Essentials Guarantee to be included in UK Government’s Autumn Budget

Minister for Communities says there are ‘no plans’ to ban no fault evictions in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland’s hardship fund will not be restored in 2024/2025 due to ‘financial constraints’

Three quarters of applicants on Northern Ireland’s social housing waiting list at the end of 2023/2024 were in ‘housing stress’

Work and Pensions Secretary says that investing in the discretionary Household Support Fund will help the poorest pensioners and families ‘who need it most’

DWP issues guidance for claimants migrating to universal credit on how the transitional element is calculated

Record number of children in temporary accommodation in Scotland ‘should be a source of national shame’

Northern Ireland anti-poverty strategy needs a ‘whole-system and all-government’ approach

Prime Minister commits to supporting those at risk of homelessness and protecting the triple lock, but also pledges to ‘get the welfare bill down’ and ‘legislate to stop benefit fraud’