Category: benefits

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Disability claim sportsman jailed – BBC News

Posted April 16th, 2009 in benefits, disabled persons, fraud, news by sally

“A wheelchair basketball player from Merseyside who was part of a medal winning team at Beijing 2008 has been jailed for benefit fraud.”

Gargett v Lambeth London Borough Council

BBC News, 15th April 2009

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Gargett v Lambeth London Borough Council – Times Law Reports

Posted March 20th, 2009 in benefits, housing, law reports, rent by sally

Court of Appeal

“An applicant who had been in receipt of income and housing benefit and had been paid her housing costs had not been deprived of the right to seek discretionary housing payments for arrears of unpaid increased rent on the ground she had already received her housing costs payment.”

The Times, 20th March 2009

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Lone parents told to be ready to work or face benefit cut – The Guardian

Posted December 2nd, 2008 in benefits, news by sally

“The government will announce further stringent welfare reforms today which would force lone parents with children aged one or more to prepare themselves for work or face benefit sanctions.”

Zalewska v Department for Social Development (Child Poverty Action Group and another intervening) [2008] UKHL 67; [2008] WLR (D); [2008] WLR (D) 356

The Guardian, 2nd December 2008

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Zalewska v Department for Social Development (Child Poverty Action Group and another intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted November 14th, 2008 in benefits, EC law, law reports by sally

“The United Kingdom’s decision to restrict the payment of welfare benefits for nationals of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic (known collectively as the ‘A8 states’) to those who had worked an uninterrupted 12 months in employment registered with the Home Office was compatible with European Union law.”

WLR Daily, 13th November 2008

Zalewska v Department for Social Development

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Zalewska v Department for Social Development – Times Law Reports

Posted November 14th, 2008 in benefits, EC law, law reports by sally

House of Lords

“The United Kingdom’s decision to restrict the payment of welfare benefits for nationals of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, known collectively as the A8 states, to those who had worked an uninterrupted 12 months in employment registered with the Home Office was not incompatible with European Union law.”

The Times, 14th November 2008

Regina (RJM) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

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Regina (RJM) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions – Times Law Reports

Posted October 27th, 2008 in benefits, disabled persons, homelessness, law reports by sally

House of Lords

“The policy of disentitling persons without accommodation from receiving the disability premium to which they would otherwise be entitled in their income support amounted to discrimination within article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights but was lawful as it could be justified on policy grounds.”

The Times, 27th October 2008

Controversial benefit reforms come into force – The Independent

Posted October 27th, 2008 in benefits, news by sally

“The latest phase of the Government’s benefit reforms come into force today but faced immediate criticism, with claims they could lead to fewer poor children receiving child maintenance.”

R (RJM) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2008] UKHL 63; [2008] WLR (D) 00; [2008] WLR (D) 328

The Independent, 27th October 2008

Source: www.independent.co.uk

R (RJM) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted October 24th, 2008 in benefits, disabled persons, homelessness, human rights, law reports by sally

“The policy of disentitling persons without accommodation from receiving the disability premium to which they would otherwise be entitled in their income support amounted to discrimination within art 14 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms but it was lawful as it could be justified on policy grounds.”

WLR Daily, 23rd October 2008

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Convicts push for benefits rights – BBC News

Posted September 22nd, 2008 in benefits, news, prisons by sally

“Two inmates of Broadmoor secure mental hospital – convicted of murder and rape – are arguing for the right to claim full state benefits.”

BBC News, 19th September 2008

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Killer and rapist launch bid for state benefits – The Times

Posted September 19th, 2008 in benefits, news, prisons by sally

“A convicted murderer and a rapist have launched a High Court action that could see convicted serial killers including Beverley Allitt and Peter Sutcliffe receive thousands of pounds in benefits while still incarcerated.”

The Times, 19th September 2008

Section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act – draft regulations – Ministry of Justice

Posted August 27th, 2008 in benefits, disclosure, legal aid, news by sally

“A consultation on draft regulations made under section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 regarding the disclosure of information from the Department of Work and Pensions and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in order to facilitate the assessment of a defendant’s financial eligibility for legal aid at the magistrates’ court.”

Regina (Heffernan) v Rent Service

Ministry of Justice, 26th August 2008

Source: www.justice.gov.uk

Regina (Heffernan) v Rent Service – Times Law Reports

Posted August 21st, 2008 in benefits, housing, law reports, rent by sally

House of Lords

“Rent officers should not base a local reference rent on too large an area.”

The Times, 20th August 2008

R (Heffernan) v Rent Service; [2008] WLR (D) 279

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R (Heffernan) v Rent Service – WLR Daily

Posted August 4th, 2008 in benefits, housing, law reports, rent by sally

“Rent officers, in identifying the ‘locality’ under Sch 1, Pt I to the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997, as amended, needed to assemble only enough ‘neighbourhoods’ to satisfy the requirements of para 4(6)(c). ‘A broad geographical area’ was misleading. ‘Neighbourhood’ was similarly not to be interpreted as comprising too large an area. The rent officer’s inquiry was restricted to the ‘facilities and services’ specified in para 4(6)(b).”

WLR Daily, 1st August 2008

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Welfare reform plan to get thousands to work – The Independent

Posted July 21st, 2008 in benefits, news by sally

“Radical plans to get hundreds of thousands of people off benefits and into work will be launched today by the Government.”

The Independent, 21st July 2008

Source: www.independent.co.uk

Drug users risk benefit cuts – The Observer

Posted July 21st, 2008 in alcohol abuse, benefits, drug abuse, news, unemployment by sally

“The unemployed will be forced to declare drug or heavy drinking habits when they apply for benefits and will have payments cut if they give misleading answers, under government proposals which were announced yesterday.”

The Observer, 20th July 2008

Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk

General Sir Richard Dannatt welcomes plan to increase payments to wounded troops – Daily Telegraph

Posted July 18th, 2008 in armed forces, benefits, compensation, news by sally

“A package of welfare improvements for the military, including a doubling of compensation payments, has been welcomed by the head of the Army as ‘very good start’ towards giving the Armed Forces the treatment they deserve.”

Daily Telegraph, 18th July 2008

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Fraud: Whitehall ‘doomed to lose £1bn of benefit payments every year’ – The Guardian

Posted July 8th, 2008 in benefits, fraud, government departments, news by sally

“The Whitehall department fighting benefit fraud and error will always lose more than £1bn of taxpayers’ cash every year to cheats and through mistakes, the civil servant running the department tells MPs in a letter published today.”

The Guardian, 8th July 2008

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Benefit fraud ‘needs firm action’ – BBC News

Posted July 8th, 2008 in benefits, fraud, news, prosecutions by sally

“The government needs to do more to prosecute suspected benefit fraudsters, MPs have said.”

Hanoman v Southwark London Borough Council (No 2)

BBC News, 8th July 2008

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Hanoman v Southwark London Borough Council (No 2) – Times Law Reports

Posted June 24th, 2008 in benefits, housing, law reports, right to buy by sally

Court of Appeal

“Once a council tenant had served upon a council an operative notice of delay under the statutory right-to-buy scheme, rent paid by way of housing benefit counted towards the purchase price payable by the tenant for the council property.”

The Times, 24th June 2008