Welfare rights news and case law

8 January, 2008

Whether requirement that EEA national have a right of residence is discriminatory

CIS/2036/2006

8 January, 2008

Process a local authority should follow in determining and recovering an overpayment

CH/2298/2007

8 January, 2008

Conservative Party calls for radical welfare reform centred on an 'entirely new culture of responsibility'

Plans will help those who want to work and cut benefits for those who refuse, says David Cameron

4 January, 2008

Receipt of child benefit / treated as responsible for a child

CJSA/2811/2006

4 January, 2008

Holistic and joined up approach to the benefits and tax credit systems needed to end child poverty

New study by Community Links, the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, and CPAG

3 January, 2008

Half of all poor children now have at least one working parent

Government should increase the financial support available via tax credits, says IPPR

3 January, 2008

CSA annual report and accounts 2006/2007

Client service targets 'achieved and exceeded'

3 January, 2008

Audit Commission to take on responsibility for HB/CTB assurance from April 2008

New benefit inspection will be a 'harder test', says DWP

2 January, 2008

Skills not benefits will offer the ‘best’ welfare provision

Prime Minister marks 10th anniversary of the New Deal employment programme

21 December, 2007

Government announces private and voluntary sector providers to deliver final stage of Pathways to Work

Contractors will deliver programme in 16 Jobcentre Plus districts from April 2008

21 December, 2007

Tax credit reasonable belief test to be replaced next month

Decisions on overpayment recovery to be governed by clearer and fairer test, says Revenue

21 December, 2007

Government rejects plan to give women a greater opportunity to make good an incomplete NI record

However former Work and Pensions Minister vows to continue fight

20 December, 2007

Need for a tribunal to carry out a medical examination / 'interaction' of injuries resulting from the same industrial accident

CI/3384/2006

20 December, 2007

Identification and benefit entitlements of welfare to work beneficiaries

New DWP guidance

20 December, 2007

Decision making in cases where an incapacity benefit claimant stops providing medical evidence

New DWP guidance

20 December, 2007

Benefit uprating 2008/2009

New HB guidance

19 December, 2007

Whether Immigration Act 1971 confers a right to reside

CIS/3255/2005 — R(IS) 6/08

19 December, 2007

42% of eligible rural pensioners not claiming pension credit

Help the Aged calls on government to make automatic payments of benefit

18 December, 2007

Economically inactive EEA national / transitional protection from the right to reside test

CIS/1138/2006