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Benefits

  • Insight

    Universal Credit: how is my constituency affected?

    Thursday, 26 October, 2017

    • Insight
    • Benefits
  • Insight

    Testing times for Universal Credit

    Thursday, 06 July, 2017

    • Insight
    • Benefits
    • Key Issues 2017
  • Research Briefing

    Key Issues 2017

    Monday, 26 June, 2017

    Key Issues 2017 is a series of short briefings on the topics that will take centre stage in UK and international politics in the new Parliament. Written by impartial Commons Library specialists, these articles are designed to help the reader get up to speed quickly on issues such as; Brexit, the housing crisis, the future of devolution and much more.

    • Research Briefing
    • Armed forces
    • Asylum
    • Business
    • Community care
    • Consumers
    • Crime
    • Criminal law
    • Defence policy
    • Economic policy
    • Economy
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • EU institutions
    • EU law and treaties
    • Farming and fishing
    • Government
    • Health
    • Health services
    • Housing and planning
    • Immigration
    • Industry
    • Institutions
    • International trade
    • Justice
    • Local government
    • Nationality
    • Prisons
    • Schools
    • Security
    • Tax
    • Technology
    • The EU
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
  • Insight

    Living standards & inequality

    Monday, 26 June, 2017

    • Insight
    • Benefits
    • Pensions
    • Work and incomes
    • Key Issues 2017
  • Research Briefing

    Motability scheme

    Thursday, 22 June, 2017

    This paper explains what the Motability scheme is and how it operates, including changes to eligibility for the scheme as a result of PIP.

    • Research Briefing
    • Roads
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Bereavement Support Payment

    Monday, 19 June, 2017

    This Commons Library briefing looks at the Bereavement Support Payment, which replaced bereavement benefits (the Bereavement Payment, Bereavement Allowance, and Widowed Parent's Allowance) for surviving spouses and civil partners widowed on or after 6 April 2017.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Bereavement benefits
    • Communities
  • Research Briefing

    Carer’s Allowance and the Retirement Pension

    Monday, 19 June, 2017

    Carer's Allowance cannot be paid in addition to the Retirement Pension because of the "overlapping benefits" rule. This Commons Library briefing looks at the rationale for this rule, and at the position of successive governments on payment of Carer's Allowance to people over State Pension Age.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Pensions
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Permitted Work Rules

    Monday, 19 June, 2017

    This Commons Library briefing paper gives an overview of the Permitted Work Rules, which allow people in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance to do some paid work without it affecting their benefit.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Work and incomes
  • Research Briefing

    Housing Benefit entitlement: renting from relatives

    Friday, 09 June, 2017

    This briefing paper explains how entitlement to Housing Benefit may be affected when a claimant is renting from a close relative.

    • Research Briefing
    • Housing benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Housing Benefit: under-occupation in the private rented sector

    Friday, 09 June, 2017

    This Commons Library briefing paper explains the application of size criteria to people claiming Housing Benefit and under-occupying their homes in the private rented sector.

    • Research Briefing
    • Disability
    • Housing and planning
    • Housing benefits
    • Rented housing
  • Insight

    Is Birmingham really Britain’s ‘benefits capital’?

    Tuesday, 18 April, 2017

    • Insight
    • Benefits
    • Work and incomes
  • Debate Pack

    The roll-out of Universal Credit

    Thursday, 13 April, 2017

    This House of Commons Library Debate Pack briefing provides information for the debate, entitled "Roll-out of Universal Credit" and sponsored by Catherine McKinnell, which will take place in Westminster Hall on Wednesday 19th April at 2.30pm, lasting for 90 minutes. A previous Westminster Hall debate on this topic led by Catherine McKinnell was interrupted by the attack on Parliament on 22 March

    • Debate Pack
    • Benefits policy
  • Research Briefing

    The two child limit in tax credits and Universal Credit

    Monday, 10 April, 2017

    This Commons Library briefing looks at the two child limit in Child Tax Credit and in Universal Credit introduced for new claims and births from 6 April 2017. There will be limited exceptions to the two child rule, including where a child was conceived as a result of a "non-consensual sexual act."

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Civil law
    • Family benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Legislating for Brexit: EU directives

    Wednesday, 05 April, 2017

    What are EU directives and what will happen to them when the UK leaves the EU? This paper looks at EU directives in force and how they are implemented in the UK. This will give some idea of the task ahead for UK legislators.

    • Research Briefing
    • Animals
    • Asylum
    • Aviation
    • Benefits policy
    • Business
    • Climate change
    • Communities
    • Consumers
    • Crime
    • Criminal law
    • Culture, media and sport
    • Devolution
    • Diseases
    • Economy
    • Education
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Equality
    • EU institutions
    • EU law and treaties
    • Europe
    • Farming and fishing
    • Finance
    • Government
    • Health
    • Health services
    • Higher education
    • Immigration
    • Industry
    • Institutions
    • International law
    • International organisations
    • International trade
    • Justice
    • Medicine
    • Parliament
    • Pensions
    • Rail
    • Roads
    • Sciences
    • Security
    • Tax
    • Transport
    • Work and incomes
    • Brexit
  • Insight

    Welfare reform: impact of changes this Thursday

    Tuesday, 04 April, 2017

    • Insight
    • Benefits

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