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Sickness, disability and carers' benefits

  • Debate Pack

    Women and Equalities Committee: covid, disability and access to services

    Tuesday, 13 April, 2021

    A Westminster Hall debate on the 'Women and Equalities Committee: covid, disability and access to services' has been scheduled for Thursday 15 April 2021 from 1.30-3.00pm. The debate has been nominated by the Liaison Committee.

    • Debate Pack
    • Diseases
    • Health services
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Covid-19
  • Research Briefing

    Benefits Uprating 2021

    Wednesday, 03 February, 2021

    Benefits and tax credits that are linked to inflation rise by 0.5% in April 2021, while the triple lock delivers a 2.5% increase to the Basic and New State Pension. Temporary uplifts to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit, worth £20 per week, are set to lapse in April 2021 - the Government says it will "look at the economic and health context before making any decisions" about further support for low-income families during the coronavirus crisis.

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

    The aims of ten years of welfare reform (2010-2020)

    Friday, 18 December, 2020

    This briefing looks at the aims which governments since 2010 have set out to justify major welfare reforms.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Bereavement benefits
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Pensions
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
    • Social security
    • Ten years of welfare reform
  • Debate Pack

    Debate on a Motion relating to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on the DWP’s response to the Coronavirus Outbreak

    Monday, 23 November, 2020

    A debate on 'the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on the DWP’s response to the Coronavirus Outbreak’ has been scheduled for Thursday 26 November 2020.

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

    Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill 2019-21: Progress of the Bill

    Tuesday, 10 November, 2020

    This briefing provides an overview of the progress of the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill 2019-21. The Bill has now completed its passage through Parliament.

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

    The introduction of a universal basic income

    Friday, 09 October, 2020

    This Commons Library debate pack briefing has been prepared in advance of a debate in Westminster Hall on "the introduction of a universal basic income" scheduled for Tuesday 13 October 2020 at 9.30 am . The debate will be led by Ronnie Cowan MP, Neil Gray MP, Clive Lewis MP and Layla Moran MP.

    • Debate Pack
    • Benefits policy
    • Economic policy
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • 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

    Coronavirus: Calls to ease No Recourse to Public Funds conditions

    Monday, 27 April, 2020

    This briefing summarises who is subject to the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) visa condition and how it is applied. It also identifies what state support and concessions might be available for migrants with NRPF during the coronavirus crisis. It does not cover migrants’ entitlements to NHS healthcare, or the position of European Economic Area nationals.

    • Research Briefing
    • Asylum
    • Benefits policy
    • Bereavement benefits
    • Children's social services
    • Community care
    • Diseases
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Immigration
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
    • Covid-19
  • 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
  • Debate Pack

    Opposition day debate: Statutory Sick Pay

    Tuesday, 17 March, 2020

    An Opposition Day debate on ‘Statutory Sick Pay’ has been scheduled for Wednesday 18 March 2020. This briefing provides background and resources on the issue. This is a fast-moving issue and should be read as correct at the time of publication.

    • Debate Pack
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Work and incomes
  • Research Briefing

    Pensioner benefits

    Tuesday, 14 January, 2020

    Looks at the main benefits available to pensioners, in addition to the State Pension, and the debate on whether they should be reformed

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

    Carer’s Allowance

    Thursday, 09 January, 2020

    This Commons Library briefing looks at Carer's Allowance - a non-contributory, non-means-tested benefit paid to people who care full-time for someone who is severely disabled. It covers the background to the benefit and issues frequently raised by people claiming it, including the level of the benefit, its interaction with other benefits including the Retirement Pension, and the difficulties recipients face when seeking to combine their caring duties with paid work or studying. Reforms to Carer's Allowance have been discussed, but there have been no significant changes to the benefit in recent years, and Carer's Allowance will remain a separate benefit under the Universal Credit system. Responsibility for Carer's Allowance and related disability benefits is now devolved to the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish Government has introduced a Carer's Allowance Supplement, and Carer's Allowance in Scotland will be replaced by a new benefit - Carer's Assistance - starting from winter 2021.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Disability
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Social security
  • Constituency Casework

    Personal Independence Payments

    Friday, 13 December, 2019

    PIP was introduced for new claims in Great Britain from April 2013, and the Department for Work and Pensions expects that all existing working age DLA claimants will have been reassessed for PIP by 2020-21. In Northern Ireland, PIP started to replace DLA from 20 June 2016.

    • Constituency Casework
    • Benefits policy
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Welfare and pensions
    • Social security
  • Research Briefing

    Universal Credit and the Severe Disability Premium

    Tuesday, 05 November, 2019

    This Commons Library briefing looks at how Universal Credit will affect benefit claimants who are, or were, getting the Severe Disability Premium. It covers measures which came into force in January 2019 to prevent people getting SDP from moving onto UC until they can receive transitional protection, and "SDP transitional payments" for those who have already moved to UC and lost SDP.

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

    Spending of the Department for Work and Pensions

    Monday, 01 July, 2019

    This House of Commons Debate Pack briefing has been published in advance of an Estimates Day debate on the spending of the Department for Work and Pensions. This will take place in the House of Commons chamber on Tuesday 2nd July 2019.

    • Debate Pack
    • Benefits policy
    • Family benefits
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
    • Social security

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