Standard interest rate increases. | Prescription charges | Tsunami - establishing death |
Changes to state pension deferral | Recourse to public funds | Childcare in the home and working tax credit |
Incapacity benefit reforms will require resources and ‘quantum leap’ in quality of decision-making – Citizens Advice | Motability scheme changes | Education Maintenance Allowance |
Citizens Advice calls for review of tax credit overpayments recovery | Tax Credits - 31 January deadline | Lone parents |
Income support and housing costs | Lone parents | Lone parent interviews |
Cold weather payments | Child tax credit | Housing benefit and council tax benefit |
Pensions helpline for women - OPAS | Means testing failing poorest pensioners, Citizens Advice tells MPs | Winter fuel payments |
Asylum seekers | Tax credit overpayments | Further Child Trust Fund Regulations |
Education Maintenance Allowances | Working tax credit | NHS continuing care |
Pay out for gay pensions, says TUC | New research into numbers affected by failing pension schemes. | Minister unveils New Deal evolution plans |
Claim forms - HB/CTB | Council tax help for the over 70s | Payments to vulnerable people during conversion to direct payments |
Income support/JSA and children | Income support rate rise | Housing benefit and council tax benefit changes |
Work-focused interviews for lone parents | Prescription charge increases | The Civil Partnership Bill: Changes to benefits |
Benefit sanctions pilots | Tax Credits | Citizens Advice response to Civil Service job cuts |
Home Responsibilities Protection | Changes to Council Tax Benefit | Pensioners urged to claim Council Tax Benefit |
Council Tax Changes | No UK benefits for EU accession countries. | Council tax changes |
Changes of circumstance - reporting by phone | The Rent Service Joins the Department for Work and Pensions | Tax credits and help with health costs |
Carer's allowance - help online | Help available to the vulnerable this winter. | Tax credit code of practice |
Benefits fraud gets a little harder. | Pensioners urged to claim help with Council Tax Bills |
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