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Pension Schemes Bill 2019-21

Pension Schemes Bill 2019-21

Monday, 18 January, 2021

Looks at the Pension Schemes Bill 2019-21 which covers Collective Money Purchase Schemes, Pensions Dashboards and stronger powers for the Pensions Regulator

  • Research Briefing
  • Pensions
Coronavirus: Universal Credit during the crisis

Coronavirus: Universal Credit during the crisis

Friday, 15 January, 2021

This House of Commons Library briefing paper explores how Universal Credit has coped and changed during the coronavirus crisis so far, and what challenges lie ahead for this benefit.

  • Research Briefing
  • Benefits policy
  • Diseases
  • Working age benefits
  • Covid-19
  • Social security
Opposition Day Debate: A Motion relating to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit

Opposition Day Debate: A Motion relating to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit

Friday, 15 January, 2021

On Monday 18 January 2021, there will be an Opposition Day Debate on a Motion relating to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit.

  • Debate Pack
  • Benefits policy
  • Family benefits
  • Housing benefits
  • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    State Pension triple lock

    Friday, 08 January, 2021

    An examination of the triple lock mechanism used to uprate the State Pension - its effect so far and the arguments for and against

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
  • Research Briefing

    Child Maintenance: Fees, enforcement and arrears

    Wednesday, 16 December, 2020

    This paper describes what steps the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) may take when a Non-Resident Parent (also known as a “Paying Parent”) fails to pay child maintenance on time or in full. It also provides information on the application, collection and enforcement fees charged by the CMS, and briefly summarises analysis on the effectiveness of the CMS’s enforcement and collection system. This paper relates primary to Great Britain: Section 6 describes Northern Ireland’s system.

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law
    • Families and social services
    • Family law
  • Research Briefing

    The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: UK implementation

    Wednesday, 18 November, 2020

    This briefing paper describes the findings of the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ investigation into the UK in 2016, the UK and Devolved Government reactions, and subsequent developments, including the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on disabled persons’ rights.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Civil law
    • Community care
    • Diseases
    • Health
    • Housing benefits
    • Institutions
    • International organisations
    • Justice
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Social security powers in the UK

    Monday, 09 November, 2020

    This House of Commons Library briefing paper provides a high-level overview of recent changes to social security provision in Northern Ireland and Scotland, including the devolution of significant welfare powers, and analyses how this has affected the structure of the UK social security system as a whole.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Devolution
    • Social security
  • Insight

    Contributory benefits and social insurance in the UK

    Thursday, 29 October, 2020

    Spending on contributory benefits accounts for around 9% of social security expenditure on working-age adults and children.

    • Insight
    • Benefits
    • Pensions
    • Work and incomes
  • Research Briefing

    Social Security (Uprating of Benefits) Bill 2019-21

    Friday, 25 September, 2020

    Briefing on the Social Security (Uprating of Benefits) Bill 2019-21, which would enable uprating of the State Pension and the Pension Credit Guarantee in the event of earnings falling year-on-year in the three months to July 2020

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
  • Research Briefing

    Increases in the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s

    Friday, 18 September, 2020

    Briefing on the legislation increasing the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s, and the campaigns against it

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
    • Local data
    • Social security
    • Work and incomes data
  • Research Briefing

    Pension Credit – current issues

    Tuesday, 25 August, 2020

    Looks at some of the issues currently raised in connection with Pension Credit

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
  • Insight

    Free TV licences: Local impact of changes for over 75s (dashboard)

    Monday, 03 August, 2020

    This Insight explores the relationship between Pension Credit and free TV licences, and includes an interactive dashboard to estimate the number of households affected.

    • Insight
    • Communities
    • Press and media
  • Research Briefing

    Informal Carers

    Tuesday, 07 July, 2020

    This House of Commons Library briefing paper provides information about the number of informal carers in the UK and the issues they face. It also explains the rights, benefits and support available to informal carers as well as current and previous Government policy on caring.

    • Research Briefing
    • Families and social services
    • Schools
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Work and incomes
  • Research Briefing

    Coronavirus: Support for household finances

    Monday, 22 June, 2020

    This Commons Library briefing paper outlines the measures introduced by the Government, and other authorities, to support household finances during the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Communities
    • Diseases
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Finance
    • Housing benefits
    • Local government
    • Rail
    • Roads
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
    • Covid-19
    • Social security
  • Research Briefing

    Pension transfer advice

    Friday, 05 June, 2020

    Many people have been given unsuitable financial advice to transfer their valuable Defined Benefit pensions into less suitable and secure Defined Contribution schemes. Poor advice has led to growing compensation payments from the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Some have speculated that this issue may represent a large mis-selling scandal, the full scale of which may only come to light in the event of an economic downturn.

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
    • Pensions

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