News and case law

18 November, 2024

Use of ACE procedure to evacuate the bowels amounts to managing incontinence / Use of word ‘including’ means procedure is not precluded under descriptor 5e

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18 November, 2024

Claimant satisfied DLA ‘severe mental impairment’ mobility criteria on basis of evidence a tribunal had only accepted as satisfying ‘severe behavioural problems’ criteria

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15 November, 2024

Upper Tribunal sets out correct approach for determining whether a universal credit claim should be disallowed due to failure to prove identity

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15 November, 2024

Tribunal erred in adopting HCP’s flawed findings and in applying wrong test as to whether descriptors were satisfied on over 50 per cent of relevant days

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14 November, 2024

More than 15,000 carer’s allowance debts have been registered in the last 6 months as a result of breaches of the earnings limit

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14 November, 2024

Analysis of housing benefit data to identify potential pension credit claimants to be rolled out from January 2025

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14 November, 2024

DWP Minister says Department is ‘safely accelerating’ its use of AI to help provide claimants with a more personalised and seamless experience

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14 November, 2024

IIAC recommends adding occupational impacts of Covid-19 on transport workers to list of prescribed industrial diseases

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13 November, 2024

Guidance on what evidential findings are required when considering conditions for deciding effective date of a disadvantageous supersession decision

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13 November, 2024

Upper Tribunal for Scotland sets out the principles which guide the grant or refusal of permission to appeal against decisions of the First-tier Tribunal in social security cases

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13 November, 2024

Social Security Scotland paid out almost £2 billion in benefits in year from April 2023 to March 2024

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12 November, 2024

Move to Universal Credit Programme will close at the end of March 2025 as its ‘work will be complete by then’

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12 November, 2024

Work and Pensions Committee reopens inquiry into DWP’s safeguarding of vulnerable benefit claimants

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Use of ACE procedure to evacuate the bowels amounts to managing incontinence / Use of word ‘including’ means procedure is not precluded under descriptor 5e

Claimant satisfied DLA ‘severe mental impairment’ mobility criteria on basis of evidence a tribunal had only accepted as satisfying ‘severe behavioural problems’ criteria

Round-up of recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case law

Upper Tribunal sets out correct approach for determining whether a universal credit claim should be disallowed due to failure to prove identity

National Care Service (Scotland) Bill held up to allow Scottish Government more time for ‘careful consideration’ and to ‘address outstanding issues’

Tribunal erred in adopting HCP’s flawed findings and in applying wrong test as to whether descriptors were satisfied on over 50 per cent of relevant days

More than 15,000 carer’s allowance debts have been registered in the last 6 months as a result of breaches of the earnings limit

Analysis of housing benefit data to identify potential pension credit claimants to be rolled out from January 2025

More than 108,000 households in England have received a ‘no-fault’ eviction notice since the previous Westminster Government promised to end Section 21 evictions

DWP Minister says Department is ‘safely accelerating’ its use of AI to help provide claimants with a more personalised and seamless experience

IIAC recommends adding occupational impacts of Covid-19 on transport workers to list of prescribed industrial diseases

Government deserves credit for introducing energy support schemes at speed in 2022 and 2023, but provision of universal support posed risks to overall value for money

Supreme Court rules that employer’s application to rectify collective agreement was made too late and against wrong defendants

Guidance on what evidential findings are required when considering conditions for deciding effective date of a disadvantageous supersession decision

EHRC publishes checklist and action plan for employers on preventing sexual harassment at work

Upper Tribunal for Scotland sets out the principles which guide the grant or refusal of permission to appeal against decisions of the First-tier Tribunal in social security cases

Social Security Scotland paid out almost £2 billion in benefits in year from April 2023 to March 2024

Move to Universal Credit Programme will close at the end of March 2025 as its ‘work will be complete by then’

Work and Pensions Committee reopens inquiry into DWP’s safeguarding of vulnerable benefit claimants