News
2022
August
Tuesday, 02 August 2022
UK government sets out further details of the Energy Bills Support Scheme.
2020
January
Monday, 13 January 2020
LHA uprating Jan 2020
2019
January
Friday, 11 January 2019
universal credit amending regs
2018
October
Tuesday, 02 October 2018
LA letter
August
Friday, 03 August 2018
newsletter 1 August
July
Tuesday, 31 July 2018
newsletter 30 July 2018
Friday, 27 July 2018
newsletter 23 July 2018
2017
December
Saturday, 16 December 2017
Letter to local authorities
October
Monday, 30 October 2017
damning new evidence about UC administration
August
June
Friday, 16 June 2017
Department for Work and Pensions welcomes new ministerial team
May
Wednesday, 03 May 2017
Benefit cap “starting to bite” across Britain
April
March
Wednesday, 08 March 2017
Budget 2017
February
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Universal Credit rollout: inquiry re-launched
January
Friday, 20 January 2017
Restriction to two children
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Latest DHP stats
2016
December
Monday, 12 December 2016
LHA rates increase by 3% in specific areas by size
November
Monday, 21 November 2016
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit:Written parliamentary statement
Wednesday, 09 November 2016
Latest news on the lower benefits cap
Monday, 07 November 2016
Start day of the lower benefits cap
September
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Benefits cap; letter from DWP
Thursday, 15 September 2016
Supported accommodation statement
Monday, 05 September 2016
New Welfare Powers Transferred to the Scottish Parliament starting today
Thursday, 01 September 2016
Still too poor to pay: three years of localised council tax support in London
Thursday, 01 September 2016
Still too poor to pay: three years of localised council tax support in London
August
Monday, 01 August 2016
Universal Credit and rented housing guides; published 1 August 2016
July
Thursday, 21 July 2016
Universal Credit delay
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Further delay in Universal Credit
Saturday, 09 July 2016
Temporary absence amending legislation
Friday, 01 July 2016
London council launches ‘right-to-invest’ for low-income tenants
June
Friday, 10 June 2016
Increase in the number of social security appeals received in the last year
Tuesday, 07 June 2016
New Benefits Change Causing ‘Serious Detriment’ To Vulnerable Scots
Tuesday, 07 June 2016
Universal Credit – One Year On
May
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Mind the gap
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Universal Credit (Children)
Tuesday, 03 May 2016
Universal Challenge – making a success of Universal Credit
April
Sunday, 10 April 2016
Review of Council Tax now published
Wednesday, 06 April 2016
Key Changes to Council Tax Support in 2016/17
March
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Bankruptcy applications move online from April
Friday, 18 March 2016
Iain Duncan Smith resigns as Work and Pensions Secretary
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Budget change
Tuesday, 01 March 2016
capping of social rents to LHA levels
February
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Statement by the Government on the Benefits Cap
Friday, 05 February 2016
National Living Wage (NLW)
Tuesday, 02 February 2016
Draft regs for “temp absence” change to HB
January
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Under occupancy/bedroom tax…..the Courts intervene
Friday, 22 January 2016
“Most council tax bills to rise by maximum allowed”
2015
December
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
House of Lords debate on “spare room subsidy”
Wednesday, 23 December 2015
A new Welfare State?
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Provisional local government finance settlement 2016 to 2017
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Number of homeless families living in B&Bs hits 12-year high in England
Thursday, 17 December 2015
New benefits role for LA’s…. and HB staff?
Thursday, 17 December 2015
“Nine in 10 Universal Credit tenants in arrears”
Monday, 14 December 2015
Letter to chief excecs…TUPE and roll-out of UC
Friday, 11 December 2015
No TUPE for HB staff; statement to Parliament
Tuesday, 08 December 2015
Universal Credit Extended Gateway Evaluation
Wednesday, 02 December 2015
Restrictions in social rents; purpose built properties
Wednesday, 02 December 2015
Review of Council Tax Support schemes
November
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
HB and Autumn statement
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
“Ask CPAG Online – Discretionary Housing Payments”
October
Friday, 16 October 2015
Fake lettings on offer
Friday, 16 October 2015
Rents soar
September
Friday, 25 September 2015
Council tax support/reduction; DCLG statement
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Under 22 and HB; parliamentary question 9 September 2015
Wednesday, 09 September 2015
Housing Benefit overpayments soar again.
Wednesday, 09 September 2015
Latest from Parliament on Universal Credit
July
Monday, 20 July 2015
“The benefit cap: this changes everything”
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Universal Credit (Waiting Days) (Amendment) Regulations 2015
Wednesday, 08 July 2015
The budget….impact on HB and CTS
Friday, 03 July 2015
” Councils step up bankruptcy orders amid “unsustainable” tax debts”
Thursday, 02 July 2015
Detailed House of Commons Library report on DHP’s
June
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Detailed House of Commons Library report on the benefits cap
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Highland Council pilots alternative Universal Credit payment arrangements
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
BRMA and £23000 analysis
Friday, 12 June 2015
UC and payment direct; turning back?
May
Sunday, 31 May 2015
IFS report on Benefit cuts: where might they come from?
Thursday, 14 May 2015
Fraud and error in Housing Benefit; latest statistical
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
New UC stats
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
The “new” Ministerial team
Monday, 11 May 2015
Ian Duncan Smith reappointed as Sec of State for Work and Pensions
March
Monday, 30 March 2015
“Wolf at the door; how Council Tax collection is harming children”
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Budget 2015
February
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Housing Benefit: withdrawing entitlement from young people – Commons Library Standard Note
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
“Council tax debt problems overtake credit card debt”
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Phase three and four LA sites announced
January
Monday, 26 January 2015
Phase two roll out for UC; affected LA’s
Thursday, 22 January 2015
UC in Scotland
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Housing Benefit fraud and error…..
Thursday, 08 January 2015
Sanctions and Housing Benefit
Thursday, 08 January 2015
Council Tax Support….”the story continues”
2014
December
Sunday, 21 December 2014
Direct Payment Demonstration Projects: final reports
Sunday, 21 December 2014
New DWP overpayment recovery powers
Sunday, 21 December 2014
Local Welfare Assistance decision
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Local authority housing stats ending March 2014
Saturday, 06 December 2014
DWP Autumn Statement 2014
Friday, 05 December 2014
Bedroom tax …size of bedroom decision just issued
Monday, 01 December 2014
UC free bank accounts..the banks say no!
Monday, 01 December 2014
Working with EEA Migrants – Good practice guidance for homelessness services
November
Saturday, 22 November 2014
SSAC report on removal of entitlement to housing benefit for EEA claimants
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Foodbanks
Monday, 17 November 2014
The social security system: long-term trends and recent changes
Friday, 14 November 2014
Completion of transfer of legacy benefits toUC; parliamentary question
Friday, 14 November 2014
Tranche one of the UC rollout
Friday, 07 November 2014
A new Housing Benefit incentive scheme?
October
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Council Tax Support; Supreme Court decision
Sunday, 26 October 2014
“A record five million UK workers are now in low-paid jobs”
Friday, 24 October 2014
UC roll-out; letter to local authorities from the new SRO
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Highest ever fraud identified by local Councils
Monday, 20 October 2014
UC roll-out; the Opposition responds
Sunday, 19 October 2014
NAO report link
Friday, 17 October 2014
NAO report on Housing Benefit fraud and error
Friday, 17 October 2014
HB overpayments….a “staggering loss”
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Written Ministerial Statement on Welfare Reform Monday 13 October 2014
Friday, 03 October 2014
Scottish Deputy Minister calls for Universal Credit to be delayed in Scotland
Friday, 03 October 2014
Number of HB claimants in work “soars”
September
Monday, 29 September 2014
Universal Credit to “accelerate”
Friday, 26 September 2014
A typical HB Investigation..just as SFIS starts?
Sunday, 21 September 2014
Minimum wage increases from 1 October
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Overpayments of Housing Benefit increases by 9%
Friday, 05 September 2014
End of “bedroom tax” in sight?
Thursday, 04 September 2014
Scottish Council Tax Support decisions
August
Thursday, 28 August 2014
PFA/ EEA changes; funding made available
Friday, 22 August 2014
First “bedroom tax” Upper Tribunal decision made
Sunday, 17 August 2014
“Welfare reform: will Iain Duncan Smith’s benefits revolution happen”?
July
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Council tax scheme stuck down by the High Court
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Benefits for EU nationals to be further reduced
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Lib Dems propose housing benefit changes
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy: interim evaluation report
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
“Council tax arrears rise fastest where support is cut most”
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Council Tax collection rates in England fall “dramatically”
Wednesday, 02 July 2014
DWP Performance; House of Commons debate
June
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
£20 million in DHP monies “unspent”
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
Council Tax Reduction in Scotland
Monday, 23 June 2014
A Labour Government would “halt Universal Credit”
Thursday, 19 June 2014
Can LHA reforms achieve their aims in London?
Thursday, 19 June 2014
EU national who left work due to pregnancy retains worker status
Thursday, 19 June 2014
Resolution Foundation to review Universal Credit
Monday, 09 June 2014
Waiting Days Update
May
Friday, 30 May 2014
SFIS project to go ahead
Monday, 26 May 2014
Number in council tax arrears has rocketed, says Citizens Advice
Monday, 19 May 2014
JR challenge launched by CPAG; CTRS residence restrictions
Sunday, 18 May 2014
Universal Credit, one year on; “a shambles”
Friday, 16 May 2014
Latest HB caseload stats / under occupancy
Friday, 16 May 2014
Significant rise in HB overpayments
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Housing costs fraud uncertainty under Universal Credit
Friday, 09 May 2014
“Threat of tenant evictions highest in a decade”
Wednesday, 07 May 2014
Audit Commission; 78% of HB claims in 2011/12 qualified by auditors
Tuesday, 06 May 2014
UK Government offers to transfer power over DHP budget to Scottish Parliament
Thursday, 01 May 2014
Liberty moves forward with ‘bedroom tax’ legal challenge
April
Wednesday, 09 April 2014
HOUSING BENEFIT SIZE CRITERIA: IMPACTS FOR SOCIAL SECTOR TENANTS AND OPTIONS FOR REFORM
Wednesday, 09 April 2014
Parliamentary Committee calls for clarity on HB funding
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
New measures to recover “fraud” overpayments
Friday, 04 April 2014
Bailiffs powers reduced from 6 April 2014
Thursday, 03 April 2014
Direct Payments Demonstration Projects
Thursday, 03 April 2014
Commons Select Committee; Vulnerable suffering as result of housing welfare reforms
Thursday, 03 April 2014
Council Tax Support; Joseph Rowntree reports
March
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Preparing for Universal Credit Implementation – Key Questions and Answers for Local Authorities
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Charter for Budget Responsibility
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Budget 2014
Friday, 14 March 2014
“DWP on verge of meltdown over big welfare projects”
Thursday, 13 March 2014
‘Huge’ rise in help for council tax arrears
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Council Tax Support…select comittee
Friday, 07 March 2014
Missing £400,000 in HB payments
February
Friday, 14 February 2014
Exempt accommodation “to be extended”
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Bill to abandon the “bedroom tax” passes first stage
Thursday, 13 February 2014
1996 exemption numbers may be 50,000
Thursday, 06 February 2014
Universal Credit “costing £225,000 per claimant”
Sunday, 02 February 2014
“Poll tax mark two”; a bonanza for the bailiffs
January
Friday, 31 January 2014
Explosion in renting in the UK
Friday, 31 January 2014
“bedroom tax” amendment defeated in the House of Lords
Friday, 31 January 2014
Audit Commission report; “expenditure on benefit administration”
Thursday, 30 January 2014
Council Tax Support losses will hit “more than 270,000 poorest households”
Monday, 20 January 2014
More HB cuts from April 2014 for PFA claimants
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Lord Freud takes a pasting in bedroom tax ‘cock-up’ debate
Sunday, 12 January 2014
Council Tax Support….the story so far
Sunday, 05 January 2014
Eviction of tenants on welfare ‘will create benefit blackspots’
Friday, 03 January 2014
Benefits overpayments being targeted by new campaign
Friday, 03 January 2014
DHP allocation
Friday, 03 January 2014
Extra cash to stop “rogue landlords”
2013
December
Monday, 23 December 2013
Amendments to the Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) England Regulations 2012
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
“Curbs on EU benefits to come into force on 1 January”
Sunday, 15 December 2013
National Audit Office report on Council Tax Support
Sunday, 15 December 2013
Local Authority HB subsidy to be maintained for 2014/5
Sunday, 15 December 2013
New habitual residence test to start this week
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Statement in Lords on Universal Credit
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Number of working claiming HB “soars”
Monday, 09 December 2013
Proposed benefit and pension rates 2014 to 2015
Monday, 09 December 2013
Iain Duncan Smith questioned by MPs about universal credit 9/12/2013
Friday, 06 December 2013
Autumn Statement; main highlights for Housing Benefit
Thursday, 05 December 2013
Universal Credit progress
Tuesday, 03 December 2013
LHA caps regulations
Tuesday, 03 December 2013
Subsidy Regulation published 2 December 2013
Monday, 02 December 2013
Withdrawal of council tax support leads to 30% increase in court proceedings
November
Friday, 29 November 2013
Iain Duncan Smith spends £75,000 to LEARN Bedroom Tax is hated
Monday, 25 November 2013
Two-thirds of social housing tenants in Salford now behind on rent
Monday, 25 November 2013
Liverpool second worst city in UK for bedroom tax impact
Monday, 25 November 2013
Disaster at DWP: the full interview with DWP’s former employee
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Universal Credit full roll out
Monday, 11 November 2013
Pensioners and Housing costs
Thursday, 07 November 2013
Public Account Committee report on UC
October
Monday, 28 October 2013
Universal Credit scheme rolls out (slowly….)
Saturday, 26 October 2013
Bedroom Tax: Freudian blip as Lord says term is misleading then …
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Benefit cap ‘not encouraging work or saving money’
Monday, 21 October 2013
£20m to help bedroom tax victims next year (Scotland)
Monday, 21 October 2013
Cutting the spare room subsidy is getting thousands into work …. hooray?
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Bedroom Tax minister says 3-bed houses should be turned into 1-bed homes ….
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Thousands of summons issued in mass mailout
Friday, 18 October 2013
Welfare fiasco chief ‘to resign’
Friday, 18 October 2013
Service without a smile
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Housing benefit review is in progress, Clegg confirms
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Tenants not coping with ‘bedroom tax’ says housing group
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Bedroom Tax minister Lord Freud admits ‘not enough one-bedroom homes’ bungle
Friday, 11 October 2013
“CTS Court Summons near half a million”
Thursday, 10 October 2013
More bedroom tax news items …
Tuesday, 08 October 2013
MPs hear from Glasgow City Council on Impact of the Bedroom Tax
Monday, 07 October 2013
Wirral Council’s housing benefit fund could run dry
Monday, 07 October 2013
‘Vegetable taken from bedroom tax tenant’ ?
Monday, 07 October 2013
Bedroom tax: rehoused victims of domestic violence face eviction
Monday, 07 October 2013
573 South Tyneside tenants hand in keys as tax fears grow
Monday, 07 October 2013
Bedroom tax could lead to more evictions, housing chief warns
Thursday, 03 October 2013
More ‘bedroom tax’ appeals upheld (in England and Scotland)
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Conservatives to withdraw key benefits from unemployed under-25s
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Millions ‘will struggle’ with Universal Credit payments
Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Baillie takes action – launches ‘Bedroom Tax’ Bill
Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Bedroom tax is ‘cruel failure’ six months in, NHF says
Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Plaid commits to a “no Bedroom Tax evictions” policy in Wales
September
Monday, 30 September 2013
Housing benefit cap will be ‘kept under review’, says Freud
Saturday, 28 September 2013
High Court grants permission to appeal
Friday, 27 September 2013
More than a third have housing benefit reduced under ‘bedroom tax’
Friday, 27 September 2013
Nine charged over A4E fraud
Thursday, 26 September 2013
UN stands by ‘bedroom tax’ protester after Shapps complaint
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Newcastle is ‘worrying hotspot’ says Shelter
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Bedroom tax defeat for Westminster council in landmark case
Monday, 23 September 2013
“Let’s deliver a large devolution of power from the DWP to local councils”
Monday, 23 September 2013
£100,000 bedroom tax relief for Hartlepool residents
Monday, 23 September 2013
Full details of first bedroom tax tribunal rulings
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Miliband commits to scrapping bedroom tax if Labour win in 2015
Friday, 20 September 2013
Rent arrears “soaring”
Friday, 20 September 2013
59% opposed to ‘bedroom tax’ housing benefit reform
Friday, 20 September 2013
Is the government’s ‘bedroom tax’ pushing people to the brink of eviction?
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Welfare reforms could cost North East region £380m a year
Monday, 16 September 2013
SFHA calls for immediate repeal of the ‘bedroom tax’ at Liberal …
Monday, 16 September 2013
Lib Dem conference: Members back review of housing benefit changes
Monday, 16 September 2013
Social housing unites in Nottingham to oppose bedroom tax-linked evictions
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Universal Credit: ‘Another £200 million lost’
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Universal credit: Timetable not set in stone, says PM
Monday, 09 September 2013
Tenant wins appeal against the bedroom tax
Monday, 09 September 2013
Liverpool housing association will pay Bedroom Tax
Friday, 06 September 2013
Landlord to pay tenants’ bedroom tax while they train …
Thursday, 05 September 2013
Benefit cuts-driven homelessness rise a ‘real and growing scandal’
Thursday, 05 September 2013
Agile dream gets a rude awakening in Universal Credit report
Thursday, 05 September 2013
Universal Credit: the programme suffered from weak management, ineffective control and poor governance (NAO)
Thursday, 05 September 2013
Universal Credit: the programme suffered from weak management, ineffective control and poor governance (NAO)
Thursday, 05 September 2013
Council’s box room rule to fight Bedroom Tax
Wednesday, 04 September 2013
Universal Credit IT programme not fit for purpose, sources warn
Tuesday, 03 September 2013
Crawley man killed himself after losing benefits
Tuesday, 03 September 2013
Universal Credit ‘plagued by problems’, says director
Monday, 02 September 2013
Claimant committment to roll out in October
Monday, 02 September 2013
Highland MPs to be lobbied on ‘spare room subsidy’
August
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Hartlepool: The bedroom tax’s impact on one of the UK’s hardest hit towns
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Cambridgeshire councils see rent problems increase after benefit changes
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Fife appeals against ‘bedroom tax’ decisions get underway
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Housing associations hit out at ‘callous’ bedroom tax
Friday, 23 August 2013
Opposition strategy for DWP under Labour
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
“DWP chaos to cost £1.4bn”, says Labour’s Liam Byrne
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Mass sleep-out against Bedroom Tax
Monday, 19 August 2013
Benefit reforms were “too risky”, says minister
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Bedroom tax will ‘uproot rural families’ and could cost more than it saves
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Number of housing benefit claimants has soared
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
‘Catastrophic’ reclassification of FE students as HE …
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Benefit cuts could leave homeless out in the cold
Monday, 12 August 2013
Social tenants receive funding for Internet support
Monday, 12 August 2013
Housing benefit changes ‘will affect 1.71m households’
Thursday, 08 August 2013
DWP staff “manually working out whether benefit cap will apply”
Monday, 05 August 2013
Zero leadership, say Universal Credit staff
Thursday, 01 August 2013
Letter from Lord Freud to local authorities
Thursday, 01 August 2013
Letter from Lord Freud to local authorities
Thursday, 01 August 2013
Tory MP attacks BBC over ‘preconceived agenda’ on welfare
July
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Bedroom tax applications dismissed
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Landlords exit local housing allowance market
Monday, 29 July 2013
Rescue plan for benefit cuts put on standby (bedroom tax appeal)
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
The Local Authority-led Pilot Programme to be extended
Monday, 15 July 2013
Benefits cap begins today
Monday, 15 July 2013
Universal credit ‘amber red’ rating vindicated
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Ministerial statement on UC
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Universal Credit from October 2013
Tuesday, 09 July 2013
90% of affected claimants “not ready” for Univesal Credit October start
Tuesday, 09 July 2013
“Over 300 local authorities return DHP payments”
Friday, 05 July 2013
Larger homes “empty”
Wednesday, 03 July 2013
Benefit cap –number of households capped across phased area Local Authorities (DWP May 2013)
Wednesday, 03 July 2013
Astonishing claim from the millionaire welfare minister (Lord Freud, that is)
June
Sunday, 30 June 2013
Universal Credit concession
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Lord Freud outlines protection for new direct rent payments
Saturday, 22 June 2013
Transitional funding will NOT be extended for CRTS schemes
Friday, 21 June 2013
Under occupancy …warning about subsidy claims
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
DHP clams “soar in wales”
Sunday, 16 June 2013
Parliamentary debate on night shelters
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Rent arrears and Universial Credit
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Benefits cap second phase
Tuesday, 04 June 2013
“Universal Credit to cost six times the amount previously suggested”
Tuesday, 04 June 2013
“The real cost of the bedroom tax”
Tuesday, 04 June 2013
Valuation Tribunal issues Council Tax Reduction practice statement
May
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Ten lessons landlords should learn about the bedroom tax
Monday, 27 May 2013
“Tenants face eviction over bedroom tax”
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Universal Credit given “Amber Red” status
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Council tax reduction schemes…bailiffs bonanza?
Friday, 24 May 2013
“one of the largest overpayments recorded”?
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Ministerial advice on DHP payments..21 May 2013
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Benefits Cap Judicial Review proceedings launched
Saturday, 18 May 2013
more on surge in DHP requests
Friday, 17 May 2013
“76% of Scottish benefit claimants struggle with internet use”
Friday, 17 May 2013
Benefits Cap; figures released for London Authorities
Thursday, 16 May 2013
“Confusion about HB and night shelters”
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Government has “no plans” to increase DHP funding
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Under occupation cases start; EHRC intervenes
Friday, 10 May 2013
DHP demand “surges”
April
Saturday, 27 April 2013
Unversal Credit pilot “to start with just a few dozen claimants”
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Benefits cap phased roll out
Monday, 22 April 2013
DWP “failing to pay advances”
Monday, 22 April 2013
Corcern raised about CTRS appeals
Friday, 12 April 2013
More funding for “benefit cap” pathfinders
Sunday, 07 April 2013
“Opposition plans new approach to Welfare”
Wednesday, 03 April 2013
Latest Appeal Tribunal statistics
March
Friday, 29 March 2013
Joseph Rowntree report …the impact of local CT reduction schemes
Friday, 29 March 2013
“Bedoom tax may increase Housing Benefit bill”
Friday, 29 March 2013
Universial Credit pathfinders “scaled down”
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Commons Select Committee report on HB published
Monday, 25 March 2013
The budget…benefits bill soaring
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Changes to under occupancy / bedroom tax rules
Tuesday, 05 March 2013
Transitional Funding for CTRS announced
Tuesday, 05 March 2013
Universal Credit regulations now published (Monday 4 March 2013)
Monday, 04 March 2013
LEGAL CHALLENGE TO BEDROOM TAX FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN
February
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Rethink on Bedroom Tax?
January
Thursday, 31 January 2013
“Rent arrears could rocket!
Thursday, 31 January 2013
No Clear Benefit – report on the end of CTB by the Resolution Foundation
Monday, 21 January 2013
The bedroom tax, ‘a policy that has no logic?’
Saturday, 19 January 2013
“Rent arrears at highest level for a year”
Thursday, 10 January 2013
DWP spells out service charges eligible for benefit
Tuesday, 08 January 2013
Welfare reform: The implications of uncertainty
Tuesday, 08 January 2013
England’s housing crisis is being ignored by politicians
Monday, 07 January 2013
Impact of the Welfare upratings bill
Monday, 07 January 2013
Message to private landlords: give universal credit a chance
Monday, 07 January 2013
Landlords call to criminalise benefit-claiming rent-dodgers
Saturday, 05 January 2013
Soldiers, teachers, cashiers and nurses: faces of the benefit cuts
Wednesday, 02 January 2013
Battle over plan to cap benefits ahead of Commons vote
Tuesday, 01 January 2013
Universal credit welfare pilot beset by IT failures
2012
December
Monday, 31 December 2012
Iain Duncan Smith: universally challenged
Sunday, 30 December 2012
UK benefits changes are social engineering, claims Wales’ First Minister
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Direct housing benefit credits ‘could push a million into debt’
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
Service personnel could be hit by ‘bedroom tax’
Sunday, 23 December 2012
Benefits Cap delay ….DWP in “chaos”
Saturday, 22 December 2012
UK needs more houses not higher benefits, thinktank says
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Department for Work and Pensions under fire as benefit cap is delayed
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Benefits Cap to be delayed in most areas?
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Universal Credit: 2 million will be better off refusing work
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Revised impact assessment for Universal Credit shows more “losers” in the longer term
Thursday, 06 December 2012
Changes to benefits cap…4 December 2012
Wednesday, 05 December 2012
Proposed benefit rates for 2013/2014 published
Monday, 03 December 2012
List of Queries …£100 million funding
November
Friday, 23 November 2012
Lord Freud says benefits system is dreadful and discourages poor people from taking risks
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Why 2013 will be a boom year for bailiffs and slum landlords
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Universal credit system risks plunging vulnerable families into debt, warn MPs
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Poorest 400,000 families worse off under universal credit, finds report
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Localising Council Tax Support – DCLG/LA Event 21 November 2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Better retirement housing would be more effective than a ‘bedroom tax’
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Benefit reforms could increase homelessness, warns housing group
Monday, 19 November 2012
PayPal Set For Government Universal Credit Contract?
Monday, 19 November 2012
Parliament probes Universal Credit implementation
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Benefits overhaul ‘will not make work pay’, study claims
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
‘Beyond cynical’: ministers, housing benefit cuts, and homelessness
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
DWP – Providers announced for online identity scheme
Monday, 12 November 2012
Software issues risk delaying Universal Credit by one year, according to reports
Monday, 12 November 2012
Cutting housing benefit for under-25s ‘is unworkable and irresponsible’
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
News from Parliament October 2012 to 6 November 2012
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Direct payment tenants taken to court
Tuesday, 06 November 2012
How many families are claiming £100,000 per year in housing benefit?
Saturday, 03 November 2012
Council Tax reduction schemes (CTS) calendar of regulations
Thursday, 01 November 2012
Local Government Finance Act 2012
Thursday, 01 November 2012
House of Lords amendments; Commons Sitting 31.10.2012
Thursday, 01 November 2012
Managing the impact of HB reforms
October
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Lord Freud Minister for Welfare Reform – speech – National Landlords Association
Monday, 29 October 2012
Lord Freud told to explain ‘unique circumstances’ of direct payments concession
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Institute of Fiscal Studies comment on new CTS fund
Monday, 22 October 2012
More workers reliant on housing Benefit
Monday, 22 October 2012
Concessions on Northern Ireland welfare reform – hb to be paid to landlords
Friday, 19 October 2012
Pub staff to give benefit advice
Friday, 19 October 2012
More detail on the £100 million Council Tax Support grant
Friday, 19 October 2012
Rent rise to a new record – new scheme for London landlords.
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Report says 450,000 disabled will lose out under Universal Credit
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Statement on Council Tax Support Tuesday 16 October 2012
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Late changes to Council Tax Support schemes
Tuesday, 09 October 2012
The cuts debate; comment by hbinfo
Monday, 08 October 2012
George Osborne seals deal for £10bn welfare cuts
Thursday, 04 October 2012
Conditions Uncertain: Assessing the implications of Universal Credit in-work conditionality
Wednesday, 03 October 2012
announcement on help with housing costs for those in supported housing
Tuesday, 02 October 2012
Benefits to be paid by vouchers or pre-paid cards?
September
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Freud: debt advice and financial inclusion speech at Centre for Responsible Credit conference
Thursday, 20 September 2012
Lord Freud: Supported housing ‘won’t be roped into Universal Credit’
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Welfare reform: jam tomorrow?
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Freud promises to fund new burdens
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Cyberfraud threatens welfare reform, warns minister
Monday, 17 September 2012
Government to launch ‘official’ single website
Monday, 17 September 2012
Freud: New financial products to help Universal Credit claimants manage money
Monday, 17 September 2012
House of Commons Work and Pensions Committe
Monday, 17 September 2012
Sink or Swim: The impact of the Universal Credit – report from Social Market Foundation
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Universal credit: Frank Field warns of ‘disaster’
Monday, 10 September 2012
Universal credit: Fortnightly benefits to stay for some
Monday, 10 September 2012
Housing associations talking to DWP over ‘benefit verifier’ role
Sunday, 09 September 2012
Universal Credit update
Thursday, 06 September 2012
Iain Duncan Smith benefits shake–up proving a challenge
Wednesday, 05 September 2012
PAYE at the crossroads
Wednesday, 05 September 2012
Cabinet re-shuffle
August
Friday, 31 August 2012
Universal Credit will discriminate against low earners, warn campaigners
Friday, 31 August 2012
Freud announces successful Local Authority led Universal Credit pilots
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Council tax support in PM’s local Council
Sunday, 26 August 2012
“cost of living timebomb”
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Family finances stats
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Review of the barriers to institutional investment in private rented homes
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Social tenants to accept bedroom tax penalty
Friday, 17 August 2012
Rents at “record levels”
Friday, 10 August 2012
Councils stockpile benefits war chest
Tuesday, 07 August 2012
Refuges “under threat” from UC
Tuesday, 07 August 2012
Lord Freud: ‘We must allow people to run their lives independently’
Monday, 06 August 2012
A universal route out of poverty…
Monday, 06 August 2012
Fears over 38-day wait for Universal Credit
Monday, 06 August 2012
Homes of poorest North East folk to bear brunt of cuts
Friday, 03 August 2012
Fury as city residents used as benefits ‘guinea pigs’
Wednesday, 01 August 2012
Council to sell empty homes for £1 to tenants hit by housing benefit cuts
Wednesday, 01 August 2012
Discretionary Housing Payments – public consultation
July
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Local Government Finance Settlement 2014-15 and 2015-16: Technical Consultation
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Homelessness rises by 25%
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Benefit Changes Impractical for Vulnerable Tenants – SFHA
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Scotland: Social housing evictions ‘harder’
Monday, 30 July 2012
Number of tenants in arrears goes up, says research
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Firm established by two Tory donors made millions from work schemes ….
Friday, 27 July 2012
Benefits staff face job losses as welfare reform plans bite
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
“The poll tax is back”
Friday, 20 July 2012
Lord Freud names local authority pilot long-list for Universal Credit
Thursday, 19 July 2012
“Privatisation threat as welfare services handed to Capita”
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Committee launches inquiry into progress towards implementation of Universal Credit
Monday, 16 July 2012
Localising Support for Council Tax: Explanatory Note on Draft Regulations
Friday, 13 July 2012
DWP-LAA Steering Group Meeting Minutes – 13 July 2012
Thursday, 12 July 2012
Annual Report to Parliament on the operation of the Social Fund 2011/2012
Wednesday, 04 July 2012
Fears benefit reform will lead to surge in bailiffs recovering debts
June
Thursday, 28 June 2012
HMRC writes off £5.2b in uncollected tax
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
New report on costs of housing benefit for older people
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Let them eat cake (bought with vouchers …)
Monday, 25 June 2012
David Cameron axes regional benefits announcement
Monday, 25 June 2012
David Cameron’s 17 ideas …
Sunday, 24 June 2012
HB for under 25’s “to stop”
Thursday, 21 June 2012
And from the horse’s mouth …
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Welfare Reform Could Cost Scottish Families Hundreds of Millions
Monday, 18 June 2012
Parliamentary statement on HB (cap) and UC draft regs (Hansard 14 June 2012)
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
“Poorest hit hardest by CTB cut”
Monday, 11 June 2012
Sharp rise in Council Tax arrears reports debt advice charity
Friday, 08 June 2012
Universal Credit will support young people in work
Thursday, 07 June 2012
Pensions deficit for top companies at “£120 billion” – May 2012
Thursday, 07 June 2012
Rents near to “affordability ceiling”
Tuesday, 05 June 2012
Has the penny finally dropped?
May
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Study from the IFS shows that the poorest and the working age will suffer most
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Reforming Council Tax Benefit (IFS Commentary)
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Explanatory notes for SSAC on draft Universal Credit and related regs published
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Carrots, sticks, online claims
Monday, 28 May 2012
Protesters target Lord Freud
Monday, 28 May 2012
New council tax help for hard-working families and pensioners says Pickles
Thursday, 24 May 2012
New single welfare benefit to be rolled out six months earlier than planned
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Early roll out of Universal Credit to go live in Manchester and Cheshire
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Suspiciously looks like India … here we ‘claim’
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Lord Freud speech at a National Housing Federation conference in London.
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Alarm over plan to dock benefits of alcoholics and addicts
Friday, 18 May 2012
Wealthy tenants face crackdown
Thursday, 17 May 2012
The Housing Report: Edition 2
Thursday, 17 May 2012
More welfare cuts … son of Universal Credit
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Lord Freud urges ‘rational approach’ to bedroom definitions
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Preventing fraud in contracted employment programmes
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The housing benefit drain from central London begins
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Fraud allegations in connection with A4e
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Sackings mount over DWP data leaks
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Court case success for disabled – housing benefit
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Scotland – Welfare cuts create ‘grave concern’
Monday, 14 May 2012
Commons clash over Universal Credit switch over
Monday, 14 May 2012
Doubts about who gains most out of £5bn Work Programme
Friday, 11 May 2012
housing benefit payments direct to claimant trials
Wednesday, 09 May 2012
Benefit cap letters to arrive “soon”
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
Think-tank: Give London mayor housing benefit say
Tuesday, 01 May 2012
News from parliament ending 30 April 2012
April
Friday, 27 April 2012
Freud: councils’ chance to shape Universal Credit
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Private landlords deserting housing benefit sector
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Council Tax Benefit to continue in Scotland for a further year
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
DWP to ‘leave out definition of bedroom’ in under-occupation rules
Thursday, 05 April 2012
Government proposal which would stop people under-25 from receiving housing benefit
March
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Social Justice: transforming lives
Friday, 30 March 2012
“Substantial increase in in-work households claiming Housing Benefit”
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Experian to register information on tenants’ arrears
Monday, 26 March 2012
Consultation on HB/CTB appeal submission time limits
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Changes to the regs in April 2012 … statutory instruments
Friday, 23 March 2012
Parliament news week ending 23 March 2012
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
A further 10 billion must be cut from welfare bill warns Chancellor
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Number of families affected by the benefits cap
Friday, 09 March 2012
Latest from Parliament – to 9th March 2012
Friday, 02 March 2012
Working with the private rented sector to tackle youth homelessness
Friday, 02 March 2012
Latest from parliament Feb 2012
Thursday, 01 March 2012
DCLG Council Tax Support page now available
February
Friday, 17 February 2012
Impact of HB cuts in London
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
HB under occupancy rules voted down again by Lords – 14 Feb 2012
Friday, 10 February 2012
A savings time bomb for the future?
January
Monday, 30 January 2012
Welfare Reform Bill – third reading on tuesday 31 January 2012
Saturday, 21 January 2012
HB cap “not a punishment”
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Councils and housing associations to test direct payments of housing cost support
Saturday, 14 January 2012
HB restrictions will “break up family”
Friday, 13 January 2012
Government defeated on three motions; Welfare Reform Bill
2011
December
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Debt Relief Orders and the younger generation
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Council Tax Benefit replacement update
Thursday, 08 December 2011
HB Staffing – parliamentary answers 7 December 2011
Thursday, 01 December 2011
News from Parliament Nove 2011
November
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Pension Credit and Universal Credit Briefing from Age UK
Monday, 14 November 2011
Rents hit record highs
October
Monday, 31 October 2011
Preparing for Universal Credit: Prospectus for 2013 focus local authority led pilots
Monday, 31 October 2011
The poisoned chalice: What replacing CTB means for local authorities in England
Saturday, 29 October 2011
Benefit cuts for fines could be increased drastically
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Latest impact assessments
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Rent support to stay with local government??
Monday, 17 October 2011
Localisation of Council Tax Benefit is a risk and ‘an illusion’, say MPs
Friday, 14 October 2011
Rents becoming “unaffordable”
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies report on poverty (Oct 2011)
Monday, 10 October 2011
Start of Welfare Action Week (10 Oct 2011)
September
Thursday, 29 September 2011
First landlord licence scheme to start
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Social sector tenants will be responsible for paying landlords direct under Universal Credit
Thursday, 01 September 2011
Rents still on the increase – August 2011
August
Monday, 01 August 2011
Reform of Council Tax Benefit – consultation
July
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Changes to supported people – consultation
Monday, 18 July 2011
Welfare Reform Bill delayed
Sunday, 03 July 2011
“40.000 families made homeless by cuts”
June
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
A plain English guide to the Localism Bill (DCLG)
Thursday, 09 June 2011
Latest from Parliament (ending 8 June 2011)
Monday, 06 June 2011
Social housing spare rooms a luxury – welfare minister
May
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Latest from Parliament (May 2011)
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Rental demand
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Shared room rate for under 35’s – equality assessment
April
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Under35 changes will cause rise in homeless
March
Monday, 28 March 2011
Statement on the shared rate for under 35’s being brought forward
Monday, 21 March 2011
Latest from parliament; week ending 18 March 2011
Sunday, 20 March 2011
“rents are rising”
Sunday, 06 March 2011
“A third of UK too costly for low-income households”
Saturday, 05 March 2011
“Forced to move”
Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Sharing customer data between DWP and local authorities
Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Latest from parliament on HB/CTB; Week ending 4 March 2011
February
Friday, 25 February 2011
How the proposed changes to HB would affect social housing
Monday, 21 February 2011
Latest from Parliament ending 17 Feb 2011 (in recess after this date)
Sunday, 20 February 2011
Two year review of LHA
Sunday, 20 February 2011
Universal Credit
Friday, 11 February 2011
Latest from Parliament w/c Friday 11 Feb 2011
Sunday, 06 February 2011
HB to go to social tenants under Universal Credit (source and copyright; Inside Housing)
Friday, 04 February 2011
Latest from Parliament w/c 31 January
Friday, 04 February 2011
Record number of insolvencies (source BBC)
Tuesday, 01 February 2011
60,000 households in Scotland facing hardship due to HB Reforms
January
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Parliamentary update – w/c 24 January 2011
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Universal Credit – half baked?
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Tribunals Service latest stats
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
This week in Parliament; week commencing 17 January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Latest from Parliament – week ending 14 January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Audit Commission report – Central Beds
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Impact of the 2011 HB changes in Scotland
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Institute for Fiscal studies; preliminary report on universal credit
Thursday, 06 January 2011
Work and Pensions Committee; responses to Universial Credit proposals
2010
November
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Proposals for the Reform of Legal Aid in England and Wales
October
Friday, 01 October 2010
The Coalition Government’s Spending Review 2010
July
Saturday, 31 July 2010
21st Century Welfare
June
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Government Emergency Budget – LHA Capping (DWP press release)
2009
September
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Dynamic Benefits Towards welfare that works A Policy Report from the Economic Dependency Working Group
2008
July
Thursday, 31 July 2008
Code of Data Matching Practice (Audit Commission)
January
Tuesday, 01 January 2008
Financial inclusion in the UK: Review of policy and practice
2007
March
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Place-shaping: a shared ambition for the future of local government (Lyon’s Enquiry)
February
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
Benefits Simplification and the Customer (DWP)
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
Ends and means: The future roles of social housing in England (John Hills)
2006
December
January
Tuesday, 31 January 2006
New publication: A new deal for welfare: Empowering people to work
2004
July
Monday, 12 July 2004