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Sickness, disability and carers' benefits

  • Research Briefing

    Cold Weather Payments for winter 2015/16

    Monday, 11 January, 2016

    Cold Weather Payments are made from the Social Fund to certain recipients of Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Universal Credit or Pension Credit during periods of very cold weather. To “trigger” the payments, the average temperature at a specified weather station must be recorded as, or forecast to be, 0°C or below for seven consecutive days. The scheme runs from 1 November to 31 March each year.

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

    Benefit sanctions

    Monday, 14 December, 2015

    Benefit sanctions will be debated in Westminster Hall on Wednesday 16 December at 2.30 pm. Dr Eilidh Whiteford will lead the debate. This Library briefing provides an overview of how benefit sanctions work and further background information.

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

    Benefit sanctions

    Tuesday, 01 December, 2015

    Benefit sanctions will be debated in Westminster Hall on Wednesday 2 December at 4.30-5.30 pm. Neil Gray MP will lead the debate. This Library briefing provides an overview of how benefit sanctions work and further background information.

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

    2016 Benefits Uprating

    Friday, 27 November, 2015

    This note sets out the main benefit and tax credit rates for the 2016-17 financial year.

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

    Background to the 2015 Spending Review and Autumn Statement

    Friday, 20 November, 2015

    Background to the joint 2015 Spending Review and Autumn Statement, which will be presented to Parliament on 25 November 2015.

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

    A Fresh Start: the Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan and the Northern Ireland (Welfare Reform) Bill 2015-16 [Bill 99]

    Friday, 20 November, 2015

    The Northern Ireland (Welfare Reform) Bill is part of a process to stabilise the political institutions in Northern Ireland. It stems from a package agreed between the UK and Irish Governments and the largest Northern Ireland parties: the Fresh Start agreement. This paper gives a guide to the Bill, and to the agreement.

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

    Background to Hospital Parking Charges (Exemption for Carers) Bill

    Monday, 26 October, 2015

    This Commons Library briefing provides information on the main provisions of the Hospital Parking Charges (Exemption for Carers) Bill 2015/16.

    • Research Briefing
    • Health
    • Health services
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
  • Debate Pack

    Effect of changes to welfare benefits

    Friday, 09 October, 2015

    This page contains Library briefings and external reports and provides background information for the Westminster Hall debate, Effect of changes to welfare benefits, scheduled for Wednesday October 14 at 2.30pm.

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

    The Work Capability Assessment for Employment and Support Allowance

    Friday, 18 September, 2015

    This briefing provides an overview of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).

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

    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

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