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BREXIT PENSIONS - Under the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement, UK state pensioners living in the European Economic Area or Switzerland by 31 December 2020 will have their pensions uprated every year for as long as they continue to live there. Th...

SOCIAL CARE - Barry Balderstone, 75, suffered from a range of medical conditions including ulcerative colitis, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, double incontinence and chronic kidney disease. He was deemed not ill enough to qualify for free,...

CROYDON - A man who rented a flat illegally to private tenants in Croydon is set to be added to a national database of rogue landlords after he and two connected companies were prosecuted and fined. Gausan Limited, its director Hakki Parlak and...

WESTMINSTER - Stephen Creswell Timms (born 29 July 1955) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Ham since 1997. He has sat in Parliament since retaining the ear...

DEPOSIT FRAUD - It’s been revealed that fraudsters are targeting vulnerable tenants during the deposit payment stage of the letting process, with the Islington Gazette reporting one couple were conned out of £1,385.  Full article here. Jess...

ROGUE LANDLORDS ALERT - Is your tenancy deposit protected? The latest research from Ome has highlighted the huge sums of tenant deposit money that are unaccounted for and could be unprotected as a result of rogue landlords or agents not depositing th...

LEGAL - Leigh Day are back in the news again today fighting for the rights of single mumms who want to work.  A single mother who had to cut her hours as an advisor and resort to borrowing from a ‘payday lender’ because of the way childcare bene...

LEGAL RULING - The ruling upholds two successful High Court challenges brought by TP and AR, in which the courts found that individuals previously in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium (“SDP”) and Enhanced Disability Premium (“EDP”) are to...

BENEFIT CHANGES 2020 - Turn2Us have created this handy list of benefit changes.  Turn2us won the Guardian’s 2019 Digital Innovation Award. Well done chaps.  In 2020 a number of changes are being made to welfare benefits and tax cr...

DWP DEATH - Errol Graham 57, weighed four-and-a-half stone (28.5kg) when his body was found by bailiffs who broke into his Nottingham council flat to evict him according to the BBC. The medical cause of death was recorded as starvation. An inque...