Welfare Rights Bulletin articles

Benefit rules for ‘mixed-age’ couples changed in May, as described here by Simon Osborne.

CPAG is looking to challenge the amended right to reside tests for benefit and child tax credit claimants with ‘pre-settled status’. Martin Williams explains.

Rebecca Walker sets out some key points on how Brexit affects who can satisfy the right to reside requirement for benefit entitlement.

Jessica Strode discusses how CPAG’s new project can help advisers use judicial review to challenge decisions.

Martin Williams considers what is needed to challenge a decision made in excess of 13 months ago that was wrong because of official error.

Owen Stevens looks at the so-called ‘SDP gateway’ and preventing new claims for universal credit by certain severely disabled claimants.

Mark Willis describes the new maternity grant in Scotland.

Kirsty McKechnie describes a report from CPAG’s Early Warning System with some urgent concerns regarding claimants who have been subject to domestic abuse.