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Welfare Rights Bulletin
This bi-monthly Bulletin is essential reading for welfare rights advisers, lawyers and anyone needing to keep up-to-date with social security. It includes a regular update of the Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook.

Contents in 2010 will include coverage of welfare reform, including the latest Bill; issues for appeal representatives including new tribunal rules; the local housing allowance; updates on overpayment recovery; right to reside issues; tax credits, social fund decisions, caselaw summaries and much more.

Annual subscription (six issues) costs £32.00. The Bulletin is included in CPAG's Rights and Comprehensive memberships.

See below for the contents of the current issue. Selected articles are available to view free of charge.

Welfare Rights Bulletin (220 February 2011)

Legal aid – reform or termination?
Sarah Clarke outlines the government’s proposals for reform of legal aid in England and Wales and the likely impact on advice provision.
Lone parents and access to means-tested benefits
Beth Lakhani examines the current state of play for lone parents claiming means-tested benefits and suggests some solutions. il 2011.
Right to reside and selfemployment: a review
Martin Williams looks at some of the issues for claimants arguing a right of residence sufficient to claim means-tested benefits based on self-employment.

Also in this issue:

News in brief
Supreme Court victory: overpayment recovery
Sarah Clarke reports on the decision of the Supreme Court on the recovery of benefit overpayments via the ‘common law’.
WCA: early caselaw
Simon Osborne considers the first decisions on the test of limited capability for work contained in the work capability assessment.
Handbook update
Legal section
Upper Tribunal decisions
CPAG training

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Legal aid – reform or termination?
Sarah Clarke outlines the government’s proposals for reform of legal aid in England and Wales and the likely impact on advice provision.

Lone parents and access to means-tested benefits
Beth Lakhani examines the current state of play for lone parents claiming means-tested benefits and suggests some solutions. il 2011.

Right to reside and selfemployment: a review
Martin Williams looks at some of the issues for claimants arguing a right of residence sufficient to claim means-tested benefits based on self-employment.

Legal aid – reform or termination? Sarah Clarke outlines the government’s proposals for reform of legal aid in England and Wales and the likely impact on advice provision.

Lone parents and access to means-tested benefits Beth Lakhani examines the current state of play for lone parents claiming means-tested benefits and suggests some solutions. il 2011.

Right to reside and selfemployment: a review Martin Williams looks at some of the issues for claimants arguing a right of residence sufficient to claim means-tested benefits based on self-employment.

Legal aid – reform or termination?
Sarah Clarke outlines the government’s proposals for reform of legal aid in England and Wales and the likely impact on advice provision.

Lone parents and access to means-tested benefits
Beth Lakhani examines the current state of play for lone parents claiming means-tested benefits and suggests some solutions. il 2011.

Right to reside and selfemployment: a review
Martin Williams looks at some of the issues for claimants arguing a right of residence sufficient to claim means-tested benefits based on self-employment.