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Description: Tax credits and mandatory reconsideration
Mark Willis considers the implications of a court decision that strikes out mandatory reconsideration rules in tax credits.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 299 (April 2024)
Description: The transitional element in practice – an update
Owen Stevens examines further information provided by the DWP about the approach being taken to the calculation of the transitional element for claimants managed migrated to universal credit (UC).
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 299 (April 2024)
Description: UC: claims and defects
Becoming entitled to universal credit (UC) (including on migration to UC) requires the making of a valid claim. What does it mean to make a valid claim for UC? Can a claim be defective? Could that lead to ‘claim closure?’ Simon Osborne reviews the law and practice.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 299 (April 2024)
Description: ‘Cross-examined’? How the tribunal asks questions
Carri Swann considers recent caselaw on how appellants should be questioned in the First-tier Tribunal.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 299 (April 2024)
Description: Right to reside after AT
Martin Williams looks at the advice implications of the Supreme Court’s refusal to grant the Secretary of State permission to appeal against the Court of Appeal judgment in AT.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 299 (April 2024)
Description: DWP’s Targeted Case Review
The DWP will, as part of its anti-fraud plan, carry out a large-scale review of universal credit cases. Owen Stevens examines the Targeted Case Review.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 298 (February 2024)
Description: Ever increasing: conditionality and sanctions
Will Hadwen looks at planned changes to conditionality and sanctions in the universal credit (UC) system.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 298 (February 2024)
Description: Extra! Extra! Transitional SDP element additions
Henri Krishna looks at new rules regarding the universal credit (UC) transitional SDP element.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 298 (February 2024)
Description: PIP and diagnosis
Can someone successfully claim personal independence payment (PIP) without a diagnosis? Carri Swann looks at recent caselaw and answers some frequently asked questions.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 298 (February 2024)
Description: Refugees, UC and the DWP
CPAG continues to receive reports of problems facing claimants granted immigration leave further to an asylum claim when they claim universal credit. While there has been some recent change, these reports largely reflect long-standing misunderstandings by DWP staff. Jessica Strode sets out some questions and answers.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 298 (February 2024)
Description: Building ‘cash first’ momentum while breaking the food bank paradox from...
As food bank use continues to soar to unprecedented levels, the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) wants to see the UK without the need for charitable food aid, where adequate and nutritious food is affordable to all. Why is a ‘cash first’ approach the way forward?
Poverty Journal, Issue 177 (February 2024)
Description: Engaging people in policy discussions
CPAG convened a panel of lower income parents from Black and minority ethnic communities in London to understand how policies affect them and changes they want to see. We talk about our approach, key learnings and considerations for future projects.
Poverty Journal, Issue 177 (February 2024)
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