Research Briefing
Discretionary Housing Payments
Local authority Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) can provide additional financial assisance to households receiving the housing costs element of Universal Credit or Housing Benefit.
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Constituency casework
Appealing benefits decisions beyond the First-Tier Tribunal
How people can challenge a benefits decision beyond the First-Tier Tribunal.
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Constituency casework
Challenging benefits decisions
How people who are unhappy with a decision on a benefit claim can challenge the decision.
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Research Briefing
Can private landlords refuse to let to benefit claimants and people with children?
The Government intends to make ‘no DSS’ and ‘no kids’ requirements illegal in the private rented sector. This paper explains the issues behind these practices.
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Constituency casework
Benefit Cap
What benefits are included in the cap, how it is applied, and who is exempt.
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Constituency casework
Industrial Injuries Benefit
An overview of Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit.
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Constituency casework
How savings can affect benefits
An overview of the capital rules for means-tested benefits, and where to find further information.
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Constituency casework
What benefits might people claim?
How people can find out what social security benefits or tax credits they might be able to claim.
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Constituency casework
Personal Independence Payment
An overview of Personal Independence Payment, including who can claim it and how claims are assessed.
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Insight
The impact of high inflation on benefit claimants
Benefit claimants are experiencing a reduction in the real value of their payments at a time when rising inflation is hitting low-income households the hardest.
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Research Briefing
Coronavirus: Impact on the labour market
This is the final version of this paper which tracks the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the labour market from January-March 2020 to January-March 2022.
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Research Briefing
Coronavirus: Getting people back into work
The coronavirus pandemic has had a substantial impact on the UK labour market. This briefing provides information on the measures that have been put in place to support people back in to work.
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Research Briefing
Accessing benefits with terminal illness
This briefing paper explores the history of rules that help terminally ill people access benefits, how they work in practice, the debate that surrounds them, and recent policy developments across the UK.
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Research Briefing
Coronavirus: Self-isolation and Test and Trace Support Payments
This Library Briefing answers frequently asked questions about self-isolation and Test and Trace Support Payments for low-income workers.
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Research Briefing
Increases in the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s
This briefing provides an overview of the legislation which has increased the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s, and the campaigns against it.
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