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Select Commmittee report into WR implementation
The Communities and Local Government (CLG) select committee has published a report assessing the changes instigated by the Government’s welfare reform agenda.The report focuses…
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April Benefit changes – summary
1 April saw the introduction of a number of changes in social policy with potentially huge implications, and generated much discussion in the mainstream…
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Next Direct Demonstration project learning event
Time: March 26, 2013 from 11am to 12pm Location: Online Organized By:David Pipe CIH Event Description: Join us for a free webinar with Alison…
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Further legal challenge on bedroom tax
Human rights group Liberty is launching legal action against the government’s penalty for under-occupation of social housing. The organisation said it will seek a…
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Tenant report on welfare reform
Consultation with a group of tenants at Trafford Hall produced this report which members might find useful LSSF Report Final_ …
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Government digital strategy and welfare reform
Universal credit will fail unless the government can get more people online, a Department for Work and Pensions official has warned. Mike Shakespeare, who…
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Who is out of work?
A newly published Department for Work and Pensions research paper found that only 11 per cent of Job seeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants in 2010-11…
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Latest from the Direct Payment Network
Event Description: Join us for a free webinar with Alison Kukla, universal credit lead from the Money Advice Service, to learn more about what…
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parliamentary round up on the bedroom tax
After much debate and lobbying from housing organisations, this week work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith accepted two exemptions from the forthcoming bedroom tax. The…
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Learning from Universal Credit Pilots – Melton Council
Check out “The experience of Universal Credit local authority pilot” on Direct Payment Demonstration Projects Learning Network run by the Chartered Institute of Housing…
