Welfare rights news and case law

30 June, 2008

Problems over the abolition of the starting rate of income tax must not detract from the longer-term challenges in combating poverty

Treasury Committee calls for new Commission to make 'real and sustained progress on slashing poverty in the UK'

30 June, 2008

Scottish council leaders back move to abolish council tax

Narrow vote in favour of government plans to introduce local income tax

30 June, 2008

Housing benefit subsidy to local authorities

New statutory instrument

27 June, 2008

Benefit fraud and the ability of the DWP or a local authority to issue a caution on behalf of the other

New HB guidance

27 June, 2008

Problems persist in the delivery of benefits, tax credits and employment services

New Joseph Rowntree Foundation research

27 June, 2008

Inquiry into the DWP’s commissioning strategy and the ‘employment programme market’

Work and Pensions Select Committee calls for evidence

27 June, 2008

Impact on HB of DWP delay in reviewing pension credit claimants’ assessed income periods

New DWP guidance

27 June, 2008

Decisions concerning whether a claimant is a ‘person from abroad’ or a ‘person not in Great Britain’

DWP announces new evidence requirements

26 June, 2008

Students and means tested benefits

New statutory instrument

26 June, 2008

Setting of new assessed income periods for pension credit purposes

New statutory instrument

26 June, 2008

Revenue’s processes for data handling ‘woefully inadequate’

Independent investigation into loss of child benefit records highlights 'muddle through' ethos

26 June, 2008

Industrial injuries benefit and chronic bronchitis and emphysema in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule

25 June, 2008

Recovery of lump sum DWP payments from civil compensation

New statutory instrument

25 June, 2008

Private and voluntary sectors encouraged to bid to deliver locally based welfare to work services

City Strategy Pathfinders extended for a further two years, announces Secretary of State

25 June, 2008

HB/CTB changes consequential on the introduction of employment and support allowance

New DWP guidance

24 June, 2008

Housing costs where loan taken out during period of backdating

CIS/88/2008

24 June, 2008

Person from abroad / transitional protection on the basis of claimant's partner's entitlement to benefit

CIS/352/2008

24 June, 2008

New pilot measures aimed at reducing child poverty by helping claimants move into work

Initiatives will provide practical solutions to overcome barriers to employment, says Secretary of State

24 June, 2008

New Chair of HMRC appointed

Government announcement