Welfare rights news and case law

11 September, 2006

Tax credit overpayment recovery & the ‘reasonableness test’

Low Incomes Tax Reform Group and Treasury Sub-Committee call for cases to be reviewed

11 September, 2006

Statutory maternity pay and maternity allowance

New statutory instruments

11 September, 2006

New miscellaneous amendment regulations

In force from October 2006

11 September, 2006

Help with NHS costs for students in Scotland

New statutory instrument

8 September, 2006

Housing benefit on two homes / occupation of the home

CH/1911/2006

8 September, 2006

Age limits for statutory sick, maternity, adoption and paternity pay purposes

New statutory instrument

8 September, 2006

Claims and payments, and decision making and appeals

New miscellaneous amendment regulations

7 September, 2006

Students and means-tested benefits

New HB guidance

6 September, 2006

Assessment of income paid by social services / meaning of ‘temporary’

CG/1752/2006

6 September, 2006

Whether claimant misled by Appeals Service booklet / breach of the rules of the natural justice / evidence from representatives

CDLA/1490/2006

6 September, 2006

Council tax exemptions and unoccupied dwellings

New statutory instrument

5 September, 2006

DWP abandons development of new computer system intended to streamline benefit payments

Programme axed with £141m having already been spent

1 September, 2006

Homeless people and entitlement to the disability premium

[2006] EWHC 1761 (Admin)

1 September, 2006

Self-employed earnings and notional income

CJSA/23/2006

1 September, 2006

Right to reside for income support purposes

CIS/3182/2005

1 September, 2006

Right to reside as a recipient of services

CIS/3875/2005

1 September, 2006

People should think carefully before making voluntary National Insurance Contributions

Revenue issues warning in light of the government's proposed pensions reforms

31 August, 2006

Work permit system to be introduced for nationals of new EU accession states

DWP supportive of plans, according to media reports

30 August, 2006

Work-focused interviews, the New Deal for Lone Parents & in-work benefit calculations

New DWP research