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19 September, 2024

Welsh Assembly rejects motion calling on the UK Government to reverse its decision to end the universal winter fuel payment

Instead members of the Senedd vote in favour of a motion recognising that the government has made 'difficult choices' as a result of 14 years of economic mismanagement

18 September, 2024

DWP needs ‘fundamental reform’ because tinkering at the edges of the benefit system will never solve the problems of the broader economy

Employment Minister says we need to be looking at the options that people have in the labour market and asking ourselves whether those choices are good enough

18 September, 2024

Restoring funding for free early legal advice would be of significant benefit to communities and also deliver value for money to the Treasury, says Bar Council

Submission to multi-year Spending Review also calls for the justice system to be funded in line with the demands made of it rather than budget allocations, and for the widening legal aid eligibility

18 September, 2024

Benefit cap is trapping people in temporary accommodation and harming those who are already vulnerable

Briefing from CPAG, Shelter and Women's Aid in response to new DWP benefit cap statistics highlights the disproportionate effect of the policy on survivors of domestic abuse, women and children

18 September, 2024

Northern Ireland Minister for Communities says he is 'keen to explore' option of issuing a one-off hardship payment to those in receipt of state pension who will lose out on the winter fuel payment this year

Written answer in Northern Ireland Assembly advises that officials are currently working with their DWP counterparts to consider the legislative and operational implications of the approach

17 September, 2024

People on health or disability benefits should have a ‘right to try’ work with no risk to their welfare status or award level

New report from IPPR says that approach would help people not only to find work, but to find appropriate work that suits them for the long term and, by making work more viable, also help to reduce DWP costs

17 September, 2024

DWP Minister says Department is now in a position to deploy additional resources to reduce delays in dealing with PIP reviews

Written answer in Parliament also advises that recruitment of additional case managers will increase the number of review cases that can be completed ‘in house’

17 September, 2024

More than 31,000 registrations were made via the ‘Apply for PIP’ digital self-serve channel in its first year, with 26,000 claimants going on to submit a PIP2 form

New management information also shows that more than 16,000 referrals have been made for work capability and PIP assessments under the Health Transformation Programme since January 2023

17 September, 2024

Number of PIP awards in payment reached 3.5 million in England and Wales in July 2024

New DWP statistics also show that 46 per cent of new claim clearances in the quarter ending July 2024 resulted in an award

17 September, 2024

Number of households subject to the benefit cap increased by more than 60 per cent in the three months to May 2024

New DWP statistics also highlight that the weekly average cap amount increased from £51 to £59 in the same period

17 September, 2024

Need for a claimant to show only a genuine and sufficient link to the United Kingdom and not to the UK social security system for purpose of past presence test in Northern Ireland

New statutory rule places operational practice on a statutory footing following the Court of Appeal's 2019 judgment in Kavanagh

16 September, 2024

DWP warns that tax credit claimants over pension age should not claim benefits solely to access the winter fuel payment

Department confirms that tax credit claimants can still qualify for winter fuel payment, and says that to safeguard any transitional protection they should defer their universal credit or pension credit claim until they have received their migration or closure notice

16 September, 2024

Government is ‘duty bound’ to bring forward additional measures to protect the most vulnerable pensioners in light of DWP’s equality analysis of winter fuel payment changes

Age UK highlights that Department estimates that 70 per cent of disabled pensioners will lose the payment, and that more than three quarters of a million pensioners who are eligible for pension credit but do not claim it will miss out

13 September, 2024

HMRC publishes information on data sharing pilot with Home Office to identify child benefit claimants who have left the UK

Pilot, which began in 2023, designed to identify potential overpayments in cases where claimants have not informed HMRC about absence from UK

13 September, 2024

Scottish Government confirms that it will introduce specialist employability support for people with disabilities from summer 2025

New initiative designed to help with ambition of creating fairer labour market and halving disability employment gap by 2038

12 September, 2024

DWP issues updated guidance as new Health Assessment Advisory Service contracts go live

New providers delivering work capability assessments and PIP assessments across specific geographic areas with effect from 9 September 2024

12 September, 2024

Need for a claimant to show only a genuine and sufficient link to the United Kingdom and not to the UK social security system

New statutory instruments place operational practice on a statutory footing following the Court of Appeal's 2019 judgment in Kavanagh

12 September, 2024

Revised rules of the Supreme Court laid before Parliament

New statutory instrument, that comes into effect from 2 December 2024, provides for a new digital case management portal and makes other changes required since current rules were adopted in 2009