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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 July, 2024

More people are requiring complex social care support as a result of long NHS waiting lists and the push for more rapid discharge from hospital

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16 July, 2024

More than 20 million people across the UK are living in financially vulnerable circumstances

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15 July, 2024

Crisis sets out three key actions for new government to take in its first 100 days as it seeks to end homelessness

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15 July, 2024

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

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12 July, 2024

DWP confirms allocation of responsibilities across new Ministerial team

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12 July, 2024

AI tools could free up as much as 40 per cent of DWP’s workforce time, says Tony Blair Institute

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12 July, 2024

Disregarding interim infected blood compensation payments in the calculation of housing benefit

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12 July, 2024

Ombudsman criticises council’s delays in dealing with application to join housing register from woman fleeing domestic abuse

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12 July, 2024

Ombudsman issues Adverse Findings Notice to care home that refused to refund resident’s fees as recommended following earlier investigation

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12 July, 2024

Civil Justice Council launches call for evidence on enforcement of debt judgments

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11 July, 2024

Immediate action must be taken to address unacceptable rising levels of economic inactivity, says new Work and Pensions Secretary

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11 July, 2024

Government must abolish ‘deeply damaging’ two-child limit immediately, says CPAG

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11 July, 2024

High Court rules that Withdrawal Agreement did not enable claimant granted pre-settled status to extend or disapply domestic rules requiring additional social assistance eligibility conditions

More Housing case law

11 July, 2024

Almost two-thirds of DHP expenditure for 2023/2024 was related to welfare reforms

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11 July, 2024

DWP issues guidance to local authorities on the closure of tax credits and the transfer of state pension age claimants to universal credit or pension credit

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11 July, 2024

Housing Ombudsman expresses ‘deep concern’ about the handling of window-related complaints in the social housing sector

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11 July, 2024

Confusion about backdating highlighted in Scottish government’s evaluation of transfers to devolved disability benefits

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