CPAG: WELFARE RIGHTS BULLETIN

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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 (221 April 2011)

CPAG's challenge to the housing benefit changes
Changes to Housing Benefit first announced in the June 2010 budget come into force in April 2011. This article outlines what those changes are, and how and why CPAG is challenging them.
Tax credits: win some, lose some more
Mark Willis looks at the impact of the new rules affecting tax credits which came into force on 6 April 2011.

Also in this issue:

News in brief
Incapacity to ESA: transfer and reassessment
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.
Universal credit: CPAG factsheet
Q&A
Legal section
Upper Tribunal decisions
CPAG training

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CPAG's challenge to the housing benefit changes
Changes to Housing Benefit first announced in the June 2010 budget come into force in April 2011. This article outlines what those changes are, and how and why CPAG is challenging them.

Tax credits: win some, lose some more
Mark Willis looks at the impact of the new rules affecting tax credits which came into force on 6 April 2011.

CPAG's challenge to the housing benefit changes Changes to Housing Benefit first announced in the June 2010 budget come into force in April 2011. This article outlines what those changes are, and how and why CPAG is challenging them.

Tax credits: win some, lose some more Mark Willis looks at the impact of the new rules affecting tax credits which came into force on 6 April 2011.

CPAG's challenge to the housing benefit changes
Changes to Housing Benefit first announced in the June 2010 budget come into force in April 2011. This article outlines what those changes are, and how and why CPAG is challenging them.

Tax credits: win some, lose some more
Mark Willis looks at the impact of the new rules affecting tax credits which came into force on 6 April 2011.