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Social security

  • Insight

    Which ethnic groups are most affected by income inequality?

    Monday, 10 August, 2020

    This Insight examines unemployment rates and wages as causes of income inequality.

    • Insight
    • Work and incomes
    • Social security
  • Research Briefing

    Work and Health Programme

    Friday, 26 June, 2020

    The Work and Health Programme is an employment support programme which was launched in North West England and Wales in November 2017. The programme will roll out across the rest of England during early 2018. It will provide specialised employment support for people with disabilities and long-term unemployed people.

    • Research Briefing
    • Work and incomes
    • Social security
  • Constituency Casework

    Benefit Cap

    Wednesday, 24 June, 2020

    What benefits are included in the cap, how it is applied, and who is exempt.

    • Constituency Casework
    • Welfare and pensions
    • Working age benefits
    • Social security
  • Constituency Casework

    How savings can affect benefits

    Tuesday, 23 June, 2020

    An overview of the capital rules for means-tested benefits, and where to find further information.

    • Constituency Casework
    • Welfare and pensions
    • Working age benefits
    • Social security
  • 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

    The UK-EU future relationship negotiations: social security co-ordination

    Thursday, 11 June, 2020

    Looks at the negotiations on social security co-ordination arrangements after the end of the Brexit 'transition period', in January 2021

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • EU law and treaties
    • Health services
    • Pensions
    • Brexit
    • Social security
  • Insight

    Coronavirus: Which workers are economically impacted?

    Tuesday, 02 June, 2020

    This Insight examines which workers have been most economically impacted by the outbreak of coronavirus.

    • Insight
    • Diseases
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
    • Covid-19
    • Social security
  • Insight

    Coronavirus: Increases to benefits payments

    Wednesday, 27 May, 2020

    This Insight explores the increases in Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit payments in response to the coronavirus crisis.

    • Insight
    • Benefits
    • Benefits policy
    • Diseases
    • Working age benefits
    • Covid-19
    • Social security
  • Constituency Casework

    Coronavirus: Claiming benefits during the crisis

    Tuesday, 26 May, 2020

    What has changed for people claiming benefits during the coronavirus crisis?

    • Constituency Casework
    • Diseases
    • Welfare and pensions
    • Working age benefits
    • Covid-19
    • Social security
  • Constituency Casework

    What benefits might people claim?

    Tuesday, 26 May, 2020

    How people can find out what social security benefits or tax credits they might be able to claim.

    • Constituency Casework
    • Welfare and pensions
    • Working age benefits
    • Social security
  • Research Briefing

    Benefits Uprating 2020

    Thursday, 02 April, 2020

    Benefits and tax credits that are linked to inflation rise by 1.7% in April 2020, marking the end of the four-year freeze that affected many such payments. Further increases have been made to Universal Credit, Working Tax Credit and Local Housing Allowance in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The triple lock delivers a 3.9% increase to the Basic and New State Pension.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Pensions
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
    • Social security
  • Insight

    Coronavirus: Claiming welfare benefits (2020)

    Thursday, 02 April, 2020

    Coronavirus may create significant new demands on the benefits system.

    • Insight
    • Benefits
    • Benefits policy
    • Diseases
    • Working age benefits
    • Covid-19
    • Social security
  • Research Briefing

    Insecure work: the Taylor Review and the Good Work Plan

    Friday, 28 February, 2020

    This Commons briefing paper tracks the recommendations made in the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices and the Government's response in the Good Work Plan.

    • Research Briefing
    • Work and incomes
    • Social security
  • Research Briefing

    ‘Access to Work’ scheme for disabled people

    Wednesday, 26 February, 2020

    This briefing paper explains the Access to Work scheme which provides practical advice and support to disabled people and their employers to help them overcome work-related obstacles resulting from disability.

    • Research Briefing
    • Work and incomes
    • Social security
  • Research Briefing

    Universal Credit and the claimant count

    Tuesday, 21 January, 2020

    This briefing paper explains how Universal Credit has increased the number of people claiming unemployment benefits, by requiring a broader group of claimants to look for work than was the case under Jobseeker’s Allowance. In January 2019, the Department for Work and Pensions published an ‘alternative’ claimant count for the first time. This models what the claimant count would have been if Universal Credit had been fully in place since 2013.

    • Research Briefing
    • Parliament
    • Work and incomes
    • Social security

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