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Description: Benefit changes for Afghans and Ukrainians
​Henri Krishna reviews residence rule and other changes for people leaving Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 288 (June 2022)
Description: Catalogue of errors - when an incorrect benefit decision is due to official error
​Martin Williams considers when a decision ‘arose from official error’ and can therefore be revised at any time.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 288 (June 2022)
Description: Ending the need for food banks
What role can emergency support play in reducing demand for food banks and food aid in Britain? CPAG has just concluded a two year research project, Ending the Need for Food Banks, to examine how emergency support could be redesigned so it does just that. What could this new system look like?

By Kim McIntosh and Zhane Edwards
Poverty Journal, Issue 172 (Summer 2022)
Description: Fuel deductions and benefit
Fuel prices are rising steeply. Rules allowing deductions from benefit for fuel costs have now been amended, with the official intention of providing some protection for claimants, albeit only on a temporary basis. Simon Osborne looks at the change and what the rules allow.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 288 (June 2022)
Description: Tackling poverty requires an egalitarian agenda
For most of the last 200 years, key measures of social fragility have been viewed as separate conditions, with antipoverty policy focused on raising the income floor, largely ignoring what has been happening at the top. But what is the relationship between inequality and the anti-poverty agenda?

By Stewart Lansley
Poverty Journal, Issue 172 (Summer 2022)
Description: Universal credit and mental health
How well does universal credit support those who might need more help to claim? In particular, does the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) respond to the needs of people with mental health problems to ensure they can access UC fully?

By Emily Williams
Poverty Journal, Issue 172 (Summer 2022)
Description: A CTC retro-fix for refugees – who stands to benefit?
Recent court cases have confirmed that newly recognised refugees are, depending on when they claimed asylum, still able to make claims for retrospective child tax credits (CTC) following the roll-out of universal credit (UC). Claire Hal​l takes stock on who can benefit.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 287 (April 2022)
Description: PIP: digital forms and online claims
Some personal independence payment (PIP) claimants can now complete all or part of their application online. Confusingly, there are two separate initiatives at work. Carri Swann explains.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 287 (April 2022)
Description: Risky business – DWP fraud reviews
Claimants have been having their benefit suspended for months after being flagged as a high fraud risk. Owen Stevens discusses the DWP’s new Risk Review Team.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 287 (April 2022)
Description: Universal credit and disabled students – an update
​Angela Toal reports on the latest developments regarding when a disabled student may – or may not – be entitled to universal credit (UC).
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 287 (April 2022)
Description: Digitalisation and rights in universal credit
When the coalition government published its flagship paper on universal credit (UC) in 2010, it promised a ‘digital first’ benefit. Since then we have seen the digitalisation of the UK’s working-age social security system, a process that continues today. But what impact has this transformation had on claimants and their rights?

By Sophie Howes and Rosie Mears
Poverty Journal, Issue 171 (Feb 2022)
Description: Erode to nowhere
​Owen Stevens considers the circumstances in which the amount of the transitional SDP element included in the calculation of a claimant’s universal credit (UC) award can be reduced (or ‘eroded’), as a result of increases to her/his UC.
Welfare Rights Bulletin, Issue 286 (February 2022)