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23 November, 2023

Homes for Ukraine ‘thank you’ payments scheme extended into a third year

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23 November, 2023

Housing Act 1988 (Amendment) Bill receives its first reading

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23 November, 2023

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill receives its first reading

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23 November, 2023

Unless decisive action is taken, Scottish Government will find that its commitments and targets to tackle child poverty will become unachievable, say MSPs

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22 November, 2023

Government confirms plans to ‘get people into work to deliver growth’ as part of ‘biggest set of welfare reforms in a decade’

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22 November, 2023

Chancellor announces benefits to be increased by September 2023’s inflation figure next year and LHA rates to be increased to the 30th percentile of rents

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22 November, 2023

Government issues response to September 2023 consultation on reforms to the work capability assessment

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22 November, 2023

Increases in the transitional severe disability element in universal credit for those who were entitled to other disability premiums prior to migrating

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22 November, 2023

Government accepts Low Pay Commission’s recommendation to increase national living wage to £11.44 from 1 April 2024

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22 November, 2023

Ensuring that a Category D retirement pension can continue to be claimed by people residing in an EEA state or Switzerland

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22 November, 2023

Change in date from which provisions relating to increase in the maximum amount of the ‘right to rent’ civil penalty come into force

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22 November, 2023

Court of Session rules that a creditor was not obliged to seek proof of delivery of a debt claim in order to comply with Rule 18.2 of the Simple Procedure Rules

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21 November, 2023

MoJ evaluation finds that enabling access to early legal advice not only helps people solve their problems quickly but can also improve finances and health

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21 November, 2023

Supreme Court rules that group of Deliveroo riders were not in an employment relationship for the purposes of establishing collective bargaining rights

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21 November, 2023

Court of Appeal rules that a council was entitled to find a claimant whose conduct led to eviction from temporary hostel accommodation intentionally homeless, despite it being ‘not reasonable for him to continue to occupy’ in the long term

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21 November, 2023

Parliamentary Ombudsman provides update on delays to its final report on DWP’s communication of changes to women’s state pension age

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20 November, 2023

DWP faces legal challenge to the freeze of LHA rates that has remained in place since April 2020

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20 November, 2023

DWP confirms it is testing a Health Impact Record as a structured way of gathering evidence of fluctuating conditions prior to WCAs or PIP assessments

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20 November, 2023

Levelling Up Secretary warned No.10 in November 2022 that removing licensing requirements from HMO accommodation used to house asylum seekers would risk incentivising lower quality housing

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