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  • Residence rights and wrongs

    Issue 242 (October 2014)
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    Henri Krishna reviews recent changes in rules1 about residence and benefits, concentrating on developments not already covered by articles on the 1 January 2014 changes in CPAG's Welfare Rights Bulletin 238 and the Saint Prix decision of the European Court of Justice in CPAG's Welfare Rights Bulletin 241.

    • 1. SI 2014/1451

  • Saint Prix and the right to reside for pregnant women

    Issue 241 (August 2014)
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    Mike Spencer looks at a recent European Court of Justice decision with important findings about the right to reside of women who have given up work due to pregnancy.

  • Work-related activity for lone parents

    Issue 240 (June 2014)
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    Dan Norris describes a rule making new demands on lone parents as a condition of getting income support (IS) or employment and support allowance (ESA).

  • Saint Prix v DWP: pregnancy and right to reside

    Last updated: June 25, 2014
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    Jessy Saint Prix v Department for Work and Pensions C-507/12.

    The issue in this case is whether a French national who became temporarily unable to work due to pregnancy and childbirth and had no continuing employment rights retained her status as a 'worker' in EU law and therefore her right of residence in the UK when she claimed income support on grounds of pregnancy.  

  • Guide to welfare reforms for local authority staff and their partners


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    A (long) plain language guide to welfare reforms for local authority staff and their partners

    A wide reaching programme of welfare reform is underway that will have a significant impact on child poverty levels across local authorities. The scope of the welfare reform programme is broad, and a number of reforms will affect a variety of family types, and for many households, these effects will be cumulative.

  • B v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

    Last updated: April 18, 2012
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    Overpayment caused by failure to disclose – whether overpayment recoverable – whether failure reasonable

    The claimant had been overpaid income support for her children when she failed to disclose that they had been taken into care. The appeal tribunal found that disclosure was not reasonably required of the claimant until she had been advised by a social worker to report the change as prior to that her learning difficulties had reasonably prevented her from appreciating the need to inform the DWP of this change.

  • Welfare Reform Act 2012

    Issue 227 (April 2012)
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    Do acts speak louder than words? Edward Graham gives a round-up of the changes on their way.

  • Escalating conditionality

    Issue 225 (December 2011)
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    David Simmons describes the new conditionality regime for benefit claimants provided for in the Welfare Reform Bill 2011.

  • Unnoticed? The flaw in ESA conversion decisions

    Issue 224 (October 2011)
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    Martin Williams discusses the problems with letters sent by the DWP to existing claimants of incapacity benefit (IB), severe disablement allowance (SDA) and income support (IS) on grounds of disability informing them that they are to be reassessed for employment and support allowance (ESA).

  • Incapacity to ESA: transfer and reassessment

    Issue 221 (April 2011)
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    Simon Osborne reviews the rules under which most existing claims of benefit on the basis of incapacity for work are being transferred to claims for employment and support allowance (ESA), with entitlement reassessed.