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Now that the Parliamentary recess has ended I expect you’ll start to see much more activity on the Welfare Reform front. Certainly, the DWP Press Office was tweeting away yesterday, no doubt trying to dampen down David Orr’s demands for the “Bedroom Tax” to be scrapped. Within a matter of…

The Bedroom Tax is clearly focusing the minds of Social Landlord staff, throughout the UK as more stories emerge of appeal successes at tribunals and there’s mounting evidence of council housing benefit sections using Discretionary Housing Payments to disuade association tenants from pursuing their grievances to the Tribunal Service. A…

A briefing note designed for frontline staff who will be required to offer advice & support to tenants as UC is rolled out nationally.

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This newsletter has coverage of the Benefits Cap, UC Pathfinders and LA led pilots amongst others.

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DWP has provided an update to its intial reaction to the favourable court of appeal judgement, which is now the subject of a further challenge by the tenant’s reps

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Briefing note aimed at frontline staff dealing with tenants and families where there is someone with quite severe health problems that affect their ability to get around or operate independently.

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Benefits Cap update for frontline staff focusing on the staged implementation, the impact already experienced by 2400 tenants and the overall likely impact on tenants

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Hi, As we fast approach October 2013 and Universal Credit delivery is extended to another 6 Pathfinder sites, more and more associations are contacting us seeking to organise training for their frontline troops. Whilst that’s perfectly understandable, given all the DWP and Ministerial hype, about the “national roll-out”, I would…

“The champagne corks were flying yesterday in Whitehall as Ian Duncan Smith announced that the Benefit Cap has been successfully delivered in the 4 London Boroughs of Enfield, Haringey, Bromley and Croydon. In total, just over 2,400 households were capped by having their Housing Benefit reduced.

Bill extrapolated the key…

Good morning, As I’m sure you’re already aware, Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions announced on Thursday, the DWP’s plans for the next stages in the Universal Credit roll-out. You can read the full transcript here. a)      The Government’s priority has been to deliver Universal…