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Benefits

  • Research Briefing

    Bereavement benefits

    Friday, 30 August, 2013

    Information on the current system of bereavement benefits (Bereavement Payment, Bereavement Allowance and Widowed Parent’s Allowance) and on the Government's proposals for a new Bereavement Support Payment.

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

    Universal Credit: proposals for a seven day “waiting period” for claims

    Wednesday, 31 July, 2013

    In Spending Round 2013 on 26 June, the Chancellor announced that new Universal Credit claimants subject to work-related conditionality who have not had a UC claim in the previous six months will have to wait seven days before becoming eligible for support. The measure is expected to be introduced from April 2015, and ultimately yield savings of around £260 million a year.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Short Term Benefit Advances and Budgeting Advances

    Friday, 12 July, 2013

    From 1 April 2013, a new advance of benefit facility administered by DWP replaced Social Fund Budgeting Loans, interim payments of benefits and "alignment payments". This note gives details of the new system of Short Term Benefit Advances and Budgeting Advances.

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

    Localising support for Council Tax – background

    Monday, 24 June, 2013

    This note provides background to the introduction of Council Tax Reduction Schemes and the abolition of Council Tax Benefit.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Housing benefits
    • Local government
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Pensions Bill

    Wednesday, 12 June, 2013

    This paper has been prepared for Second Reading of the Pensions Bill on 17 June 2013

    • Research Briefing
    • Pensions
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Paying Local Housing Allowance direct to tenants in private rented housing

    Wednesday, 29 May, 2013

    This note explains the requirement to pay Local Housing Allowance direct to most tenants in the deregulated private rented sector since 7 April 2008.

    • Research Briefing
    • Housing benefits
    • Rented housing
  • Research Briefing

    Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill 2012-13

    Friday, 22 March, 2013

    On 12 February 2013 the Court of Appeal ruled that regulations underpinning some of the Government’s back to work schemes were unlawful and must be quashed. The Bill - which has retrospective effect - would remove the ability for individuals sanctioned for not participating in one of the schemes to challenge the sanction decision on the grounds that the regulations were invalid, or notices given to them were inadequate.

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

    Draft Care and Support Bill 2012-13

    Tuesday, 19 February, 2013

    This note provides general information on the draft Care and Support Bill that was announced in the Queen’s Speech on 9 May 2012 and published by the Government on 11 July 2012.

    • Research Briefing
    • Communities
    • Health
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Draft Universal Credit Regulations 2013

    Thursday, 07 February, 2013

    Starting in selected “Pathfinder” areas from April 2013, Universal Credit (UC) will begin to replace a range of means-tested benefits and tax credits for working age families. The Draft Universal Credit Regulations set out the detailed rules for the new benefit.

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

    Draft Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013

    Monday, 28 January, 2013

    Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people of working age, starting from April 2013. Part 4 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 provides the framework for PIP, but the detailed rules for the new benefit – including the assessment criteria – are to be set out in regulations.

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

    Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill

    Friday, 04 January, 2013

    Social security legislation requires the Secretary of State to review benefit levels each year to determine whether they have retained their value relative to prices. For most benefits annual uprating is not mandatory, but historically governments have exercised their discretion by increasing the principal means-tested working-age benefits each April in line with prices. In his 2012 Autumn Statement, the Chancellor announced that increases in most working-age benefits would be limited to 1% a year for three years from 2013-14, as part of a package to deliver additional welfare savings of £3.7 billion a year by 2015-16. The Bill amends primary legislation to enable the decisions on uprating in 2014-15 and 2015-16 to be implemented.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    2013 Benefit Uprating

    Wednesday, 19 December, 2012

    State pension, benefits and tax credits increase in April 2013 - this note sets out how the new rates are calculated

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Pensions
  • Research Briefing

    The Work Capability Assessment for Employment and Support Allowance

    Friday, 30 November, 2012

    The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) was introduced in October 2008 to assess entitlement to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). Between now and 2014, 1.5 million incapacity benefits claimants will also undergo the WCA. The WCA has however proved controversial and remains so, depsite changes to the test itself and how it is applied as a result of Government an independent reviews.

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

    Localisation of the Social Fund

    Friday, 16 November, 2012

    As a result of measures in the Welfare Reform Act 2012, certain elements of the discretionary Social Fund scheme will be replaced by new locally based provision delivered by local authorities in England and the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Community care
    • Family benefits
    • Local government
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Personal Independence Payment: an introduction

    Tuesday, 13 November, 2012

    Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is to replace Disability Living Allowance for people of working age, between April 2013 and March 2016. The changes will affect existing working age DLA claimants, as well as those making a new claim. For those existing DLA claimants found not to satisfy the conditions for PIP on reassessment, their DLA will stop.

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

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