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Benefits

  • Research Briefing

    Employment and Support Allowance: An introduction

    Friday, 18 September, 2015

    This briefing provides an overview of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Insight

    Using survey data to investigate migrants and benefits

    Tuesday, 28 July, 2015

    • Insight
    • Benefits
    • Immigration
  • Research Briefing

    Welfare Reform and Work Bill [Bill 51 of 2015-16]

    Thursday, 16 July, 2015

    This House of Commons Briefing Paper provides background to the Welfare Reform and Work Bill’s provisions; summarises the key measures; and includes relevant comment. The Bill is scheduled to receive its Second Reading on 20 July 2015.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Children and families
    • Family benefits
    • Home ownership
    • Housing and planning
    • Housing benefits
    • Rented housing
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Summer Budget 2015: A summary

    Friday, 10 July, 2015

    This note presents a summary of the Summer Budget 2015. This note provides an overview of the main Budget measures (see below), along with analysis of the forecasts, changes to the fiscal rules, changes to welfare, the National Living Wage, and public spending.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Economic policy
    • Economic situation
    • Family benefits
    • Higher education
    • Housing and planning
    • Housing benefits
    • Pensions
    • Public spending
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Tax
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Background to the July 2015 Budget

    Friday, 03 July, 2015

    This note sets out the background to the July 2015 Budget, the first Budget of the current Parliament.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Economic policy
    • Economic situation
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Pensions
    • Public spending
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Tax
    • Working age benefits
  • Debate Pack

    Opposition Day Debate on Tax Credits and Support for Working Families

    Wednesday, 01 July, 2015

    This page provides background information for the Opposition Day Debate, Tax credits and support for working families, on Wednesday 1 July 2015.

    • Debate Pack
    • Benefits policy
    • Family benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Debate Pack

    Welfare reform and people with disabilities

    Monday, 29 June, 2015

    This page provides background information for the Westminster Hall debate, Welfare reform and people with disabilities, on Tuesday 30 June 2015.

    • Debate Pack
    • Benefits policy
    • Housing benefits
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Measures to limit migrants’ access to benefits

    Wednesday, 17 June, 2015

    Following an article by the Prime Minister’s in the Financial Times on 27 November 2013 in which he said he shared concerns about the impact of lifting transitional restrictions on the right of Romanian and Bulgarian right to work in the UK from 1 January 2014, the Government has introduced a raft of measures “to tighten up our EEA migration rules to ensure our welfare system is not taken advantage of.”

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Immigration
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • The EU
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Introduction of Personal Independence Payment

    Tuesday, 16 June, 2015

    Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is replacing Disability Living Allowance for people of working age. Following its introduction for new claims in April 2013 there were problems with the claims process, with some claimants waiting six months or more for a decision. The previous Government said that, as a result of actions it was taking, by autumn 2014 no PIP claimant would have to wait more than six months for an assessment and by the end of 2014 no one would have to wait more than 16 weeks.

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

    Carers’ rights and benefits (England)

    Friday, 05 June, 2015

    An overview of rights and benefits afforded to carers in law, covering local authority assessments, employment rights, benefits and protection from discrimination.

    • Research Briefing
    • Community care
    • Disability
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Scotland Bill 2015-16

    Thursday, 04 June, 2015

    The Commons Library's briefing note on the Scotland Bill 2015-16.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Devolution
    • Housing benefits
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Tax
  • Research Briefing

    Scotland Bill: Welfare & Employment Support (Bill 3 of 2015-16)

    Thursday, 04 June, 2015

    This briefing provides detailed information on the welfare and employment support provisions in the Scotland Bill. The Bill is scheduled to receive its Second Reading on 8 June 2015. With the exception of a new power to top-up reserved benefits, there are no substantive differences between the welfare and employment provisions in the Bill and the previously published draft clauses.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Devolution
    • Housing benefits
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Key Issues for the 2015 Parliament

    Tuesday, 19 May, 2015

    This book examines the key issues facing the House of Commons over the course of the 2015 Parliament - from the public finances to the UK’s membership of the EU and from school places for children to climate change.

    • Research Briefing
    • Armed forces
    • Asia Pacific
    • Benefits policy
    • Business
    • Child care
    • Children and families
    • Climate change
    • Communities
    • Consumers
    • Crime
    • Culture, media and sport
    • Defence
    • Defence policy
    • Demography
    • Economic policy
    • Economic situation
    • Elections
    • Energy
    • Europe
    • Family law
    • Farming and fishing
    • Finance
    • Further education
    • Government
    • Health services
    • Higher education
    • Housing and planning
    • Immigration
    • Industry
    • Institutions
    • International trade
    • Justice
    • Middle East
    • Parliament
    • Pensions
    • Pre-school education
    • Press and media
    • Prisons
    • Public spending
    • Rail
    • Schools
    • Sciences
    • Security
    • Tax
    • Technology
    • The EU
    • Work and incomes
  • Research Briefing

    Independent Review of the Personal Independence Payment assessment

    Friday, 27 March, 2015

    The Welfare Reform Act 2012 requires the Government to commission an independent review of how the Personal Independence Payment assessment is working. The first report of the Independent Review, led by Paul Gray, was published on 17 December 2014. It makes recommendations aimed at improving the claimant experience, the use of evidence, and the effectiveness of the assessment.

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

    Further proposals to restrict migrants’ access to benefits

    Friday, 20 March, 2015

    In his keynote speech on immigration on 28 November 2014, the Prime Minister set out plans to secure agreement on changes to European law on free movement of persons in order to allow the UK to, among other things, deny EEA migrants in-work benefits for four years and prevent Child Benefit being paid for children living abroad. Proposals to further restrict EEA migrants’ access to benefits have also been put forward by Labour and by the Liberal Democrats.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • EU law and treaties
    • Family benefits
    • Immigration
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • The EU
    • Working age benefits

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