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Housing | Tuesday 30 August 2016
Allocations Part 1: spent convictions and care leavers
R (YA) v Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council [2016] EWHC 1850 (Admin), 27 July 2016. The claimant, YA, was a young person who had spent a number of years in the care of the defendant, Hammersmith and Fulham LBC. Between the ages of 12 and 15
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Welfare benefits | Friday 26 August 2016
Universal Credit delays forcing people to food banks, says MP
Frank Field, Labour MP and the Chair of the Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee, says that the built-in delays in processing universal credit (a minimum of six-weeks) has led to reliance on emergency food parcels, triggered debt and rent arrears, a
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Migrant support, Welfare benefits | Friday 26 August 2016
Document certifying permanent residence does not create a right to reside
MD v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (SPC) (Residence and presence conditions: right to reside) [2016] UKUT 319 (AAC) (Judge Rowland), 7 July 2016.
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Welfare benefits | Thursday 25 August 2016
Ability to mobilise to "an acceptable standard" must include an assessment of the effects of pain
PS v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP) (Personal independence payment – mobility activities : Mobility activity 2: moving around) [2016] UKUT 326 (AAC) (Judge K Markus QC), 11 July 2016.