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13 February, 2024

Just a quarter of legacy benefit claimants who were sent a migration notice in the period from July 2022 to December 2023 have made a claim for universal credit

New DWP statistics also show that 6 per cent have had their legacy benefit claims terminated, with the remainder still going though the 'Move to Universal Credit' process

13 February, 2024

Universal credit sanction rate increases to more than 7 per cent for first time since 2018

Updated sanction figures also show that majority of sanctions relate to failure to attend or participate in a mandatory interview

9 February, 2024

Supreme Court refuses DWP permission to appeal against ‘right to live in dignity’ judgment in AT

Some of the most vulnerable families in the UK will now be able to rely on crucial protection provided, says Child Poverty Action Group

9 February, 2024

Government confirms that HMRC has started to write to people underpaid state pension amounting to more than £1 billion as a result of historical errors recording home responsibilities protection

Treasury Minister advises MPs that HMRC and DWP aim to identify and contact the majority of those who may have been affected over the next 18 months

9 February, 2024

DWP estimates that it will notify more than 400,000 legacy benefit claimants to move to universal credit in 2024/2025

Work and Pensions Minister also provides details of the total number of households claiming each legacy benefit that will be notified

9 February, 2024

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

DWP issues new guidance

9 February, 2024

MoJ doesn’t know if people eligible for legal aid can access it, and evidence suggests that access is worsening

National Audit Office also concludes that Ministry is unable to demonstrate whether its legal aid reforms represent a spending reduction for the public purse 

9 February, 2024

Parents of disabled children and carers are too often underpaid benefits because of DWP data-sharing failures

CPAG calls for Department to act in light of evidence that some people are going for years without the support that's rightfully theirs

9 February, 2024

DWP confirms that it is increasing the amount of universal credit claims data that is available on its ‘Searchlight’ customer information system

Latest Welfare Direct Bulletin to local authorities also outlines increased sharing of universal credit data with local council tax reduction schemes

8 February, 2024

DWP Permanent Secretary sets out range of outcomes that can follow a referral for an Internal Process Review

Peter Schofield advises, that even where a case does not meet the criteria for an IPR, there is a process in place to encourage learning, raise awareness, and improve the clarity and effectiveness of processes and guidance

8 February, 2024

State Pension Age (Compensation) Bill receives its first reading in House of Commons

Bill requires Secretary of State to publish proposals for a compensation scheme for women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1960 who have been affected by increases in the state pension age

6 February, 2024

Extending period within which statutory paternity pay can be claimed to 52 weeks after the birth of the child

New statutory instrument also allows fathers or partners to split their leave into two blocks of one week

6 February, 2024

More than 120 organisations and council leaders write to Chancellor calling for urgent extension of Household Support Fund

Warning of 'devastating consequences' if it is not renewed beyond March, letter highlights that more than 60 per cent of local welfare funding was financed by the Fund in 2022/2023 and that need is growing

6 February, 2024

Government has listened to the asks of disabled people and is ‘truly determined’ to deliver on them, says DWP Minister

Mims Davies says that new Disability Action Plan will make the UK the most accessible place in the world for disabled people to 'live, work and thrive'

6 February, 2024

Requiring jobseekers in Northern Ireland to widen their job search outside of their preferred sector after four weeks of jobseeking rather than thirteen

New statutory instrument

5 February, 2024

Tribunal erred in law in finding claimant’s disclosure of intention to claim occupational pension in the near future discharged the obligation to disclose as communicated in ESA40 booklet

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v NS
[2024] UKUT 5 (AAC)
UA-2021-000249/250-ESA

5 February, 2024

Uprating of council tax reduction schemes in Scotland 2024/2025

New statutory instrument also makes provision for disregard of payments from the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Compensation Scheme

5 February, 2024

Gordon Lyons elected as Communities Minister for Northern Ireland following restoration of power sharing government in the region

MLAs sitting for the first time in two years also reappoint Naomi Long as Justice Minister and elect Robin Swann as Minister for Health with responsibility for social care

2 February, 2024

Failure to provide claimant with transitional protection for loss of EDP following natural migration to universal credit was unlawful and DWP must redecide entitlement on a lawful basis

FL v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2024] UKUT 6 (AAC)
UA-2021-001442-UOTH