“A woman jailed for her role in a multimillion pound benefits fraud ring has been allowed to stay in Britain because of her ‘human rights’.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A notorious ‘soft touch’ judge spares a benefits cheat from prison after claiming the £38,000 cost of locking him up would be the same as the amount he had swindled.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Confidential medical information from sick and disabled people applying for welfare benefits is opened and sorted by Royal Mail staff on behalf of the Government without the claimant’s knowledge or consent, The Independent can reveal.”
The Independent, 8th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A benefits cheat who pretended to need a wheelchair used £1.8 million of grants to fund a lifestyle of scuba diving, penthouses and top of the range cars.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Government broke the law when it stripped an unemployed man of his benefits for six months after he refused to participate in an unpaid back-to-work scheme, the High Court has ruled.”
The Independent, 7th August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Legal Services Commission’s contract managers have been conducting informal assessments of files and I have been receiving a number of queries from not-for-profit (NfP) agencies because cases advising on entitlement to benefits appear to be disallowed on a fairly regular basis, writes Vicky Ling. It is clear that the goalposts have moved since the introduction of fixed fees in 2007, and cases that would previously passed audit are now been nil assessed.”
LegalVoice, 3rd August 2012
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
“Government back-to-work schemes criticised as ‘forced labour’ were ruled lawful by the high court on Monday.”
The Guardian, 6th August
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A postal worker from Bradford has won an 11-year battle for justice for his disabled brother and reimbursement of more than £100,000 in support payments he had been wrongly denied.”
The Guardian, 6th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
” A convicted rapist who won nearly £5 million on the lottery but continued to fraudulently claim benefits has been jailed for nine months.”
The Independent, 24th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Rogue Traders presenter Dan Penteado has been jailed for council tax and housing benefit fraud totaling £24,000.”
The Independent, 17th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Every Briton could have a guaranteed entitlement to welfare benefits in a ‘far-reaching’ expansion of human rights proposed by the body that was intended by David Cameron to rein in the law.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A woman who claimed she was so disabled that she could not open a bottle wine has been convicted of benefit fraud after she was pictured scuba-diving during exotic holidays, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).”
The Independent, 28th June 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Mandatory unpaid government work schemes that last up to six months should be declared illegal because they are a form of forced labour, lawyers acting for the unemployed argued on Tuesday.”
The Guardian, 26th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Immigrants who want elderly relatives to join them in Britain must swear they will not claim benefits for five years, under the Government’s latest attempt to limit the number of overseas arrivals.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Local Government Law Update: 21 May (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 22 May (PDF)
11 KBW, May 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“Alcoholics and drug addicts will lose their benefits if they refuse to accept treatment, under plans to be announced today.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The statutory criteria for calculating housing benefit for tenants in the private rented sector based on an entitlement to a one bedroom rate discriminated against the severely disabled and there was no justification in their case for continuation of the single bedroom rules.”
WLR Daily, 15th May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Local Government Law Update: 14 May (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 15 May (PDF)
11 KBW, May 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“In the same week that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan-Smith, announced his intention to implement sweeping reforms of the current system of disability benefits, the Court of Appeal has ruled that housing benefit rules were discriminatory against disabled people, in breach of Article 14 read with Article 1 Protocol 1 of the European Convention.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th May 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
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