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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.

25 June, 2024

Northern Ireland Commissioner confirms no provision for backdating attendance allowance prior to claim start date, even where delay in claim caused by official body

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25 June, 2024

Scottish Housing Minister sets out details of plans to improve housing outcomes for victim-survivors of domestic abuse

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25 June, 2024 Open access

PCS announces three further periods of strike action by security guards in jobcentres

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24 June, 2024

EU national did not retain worker status for reasons including ‘undue delay’ of three months before making universal credit claim

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24 June, 2024

DWP again ordered to disclose equality impact assessment relating to policy decision to remove work capability assessments

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21 June, 2024

High Court rules that court had discretion to uphold bankruptcy order made in ignorance of moratorium

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21 June, 2024

Court of Appeal rules that a creditor can be ordered to pay damages in respect of breaches of statutory duty by an enforcement agent acting on its behalf

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21 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024: Housing sector calls on next government to take urgent action to end homelessness and rough sleeping

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21 June, 2024

Scottish Government says it will consider taking a phased approach to introduction of new homelessness prevention duties

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20 June, 2024 Open access

Election 2024: Any policy change that limits increasing number of working-age health-related benefit claims without understanding the underlying drivers of the trend is ‘risky in the extreme’

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20 June, 2024

Freeholder’s available remedies for breach of settlement agreement included seeking forfeiture of lease

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20 June, 2024

Total value of council tax arrears in England increased by almost 10 per cent in 2023/2024, reaching a new high of more than £6 billion

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19 June, 2024

Number of council tax reduction recipients in Scotland increased in 2023/2024 following a record low in previous year

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18 June, 2024

Almost 80,000 households in Great Britain had their benefits capped as at February 2024

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18 June, 2024

250,000 PIP claims were registered in England and Wales in the three months to April 2024, the highest level since the benefit was introduced

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18 June, 2024

More than 13,000 claimants were referred to the Health Transformation Programme between January 2023 and April 2024

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18 June, 2024

Bill introduced in Northern Ireland to provide for ‘administrative liability orders’ to speed up recovery of child maintenance arrears from parents who fail to pay

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