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Search ArticlesDWP releases updated statistics on pension credit applications and clearances including period covering winter fuel payment cuts and recent policy reversal - Rightsnet
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UC Housing Element overpayment
Forum Home → Discussion → Universal credit administration → Thread 5 August 2025, 11:56 am Hi, Client has been paid UC HE since 2023- she has a right to occupy issued by court and this what was provided as liability for rent, In July 2024 UC issued an OP letter and also stopped paying HE as she stated she was not entitled, Cl states she asked for an MR and was told it was not an appealable decision! Interestingly she said she has discussed this with her Work Coach who told her that she did...
Government publishes remit for minimum wage rates from April 2026 calling on Low Pay Commission to ensure NLW does not drop below two-thirds of median earnings - Rightsnet
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Draft regulations laid in Wales to disapply the habitual residence test for homelessness support for British nationals affected by conflict between Israel and Iran - Rightsnet
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universal Credit and bedroom tax
Forum Home → Discussion → Universal credit migration → Thread 1 August 2025, 06:16 pm I have come across a migration issue a couple of times now. It will only affect a small number of claimants but I wonder if anyone else has come across it. It is in the cases where we established , either through a Tribunal or with LA agreement, that an upstairs room in the claimant’s house was actually too small to be a bedroom. So the claimant went happily on receiving full HB.
Social Security Advisory Committee announces new work programme to study how the benefit system influences young people’s choices around education, apprenticeship and work - Rightsnet
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Court of Appeal rules that a council’s succession policy lawfully limited definition of ‘stepchild’ to a child of a person’s spouse by previous marriage or civil partnership - Rightsnet
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Round-up of recent Upper Tribunal housing case law
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Round-up of recent housing-related Ombudsman decisions and reports
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