Welfare Rights Bulletin articles

Rosie Mears introduces CPAG’s new research report You Reap What You Code: universal credit, digitalisation and the rule of law, and investigates how the digital design and implementation of universal credit may contribute to errors in identifying the correct effective date for supersessions.

Simon Osborne looks at some caselaw development which might herald a change in the recoverability of overpayments under the legacy benefit system.

Henri Krishna describes new rules on UC childcare costs.

Martin Williams discusses the approach of the European Court of Human Rights to when a ‘legitimate expectation’ might be sufficient to prevent recovery of overpaid benefits.

Simon Osborne and Carri Swann consider the plans in the government’s Health and Disability White Paper to scrap the work capability assessment (WCA) and replace current rules on limited capability for work and work-related activity.

With managed migration expanding over the coming year, Owen Stevens takes a look at transitional protection for people who would be worse off as a result.

Mark Willis looks at official plans for the managed migration of current tax credit recipients to universal credit (UC) claims.

Frances Ryan looks at rules providing new entitlement to bereavement benefits for surviving partners of a ‘cohabiting’ relationship.

Martin Williams looks at a recent decision in which DWP assurances to a claimant that their universal credit payments were correct meant that an overpayment was not recoverable.

Simon Osborne looks at rules and caselaw on when a benefit appeal made outside the time limit could still be admitted.