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Sickness, disability and carers' 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
  • Research Briefing

    Universal Credit: an introduction

    Friday, 09 November, 2012

    Starting from next year, Universal Credit (UC) will begin to replace a range of means-tested benefits and tax credits for working age families. The intention is to simplify and streamline the benefits system for claimants, making it easier for people to understand; to reduce the financial and administrative barriers to work; to tackle in-work poverty; and to bear down on fraud and error.

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

    Cold Weather Payments for winter 2012/2013

    Thursday, 25 October, 2012

    Cold Weather Payments of 25 pounds a week are made to certain recipients of Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, income-related Employment and Support Allowance 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, zero degrees or below for seven consecutive days.

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

    ESA and Incapacity benefit statistics

    Friday, 13 July, 2012

    A summary of statistics relating to Employment and Support Allowance and other incapacity-related benefits.

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

    ESA and incapacity benefits – constituency statistics for Great Britain

    Wednesday, 16 May, 2012

    Statistics on working-age claimants of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and its predecessor incapacity-related benefits in each constituency in Great Britain. In November 2011 there were 2.57 million claimants of these benefits in Great Britain.

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

    Time limiting of contributory Employment and Support Allowance from 30 April 2012

    Wednesday, 25 April, 2012

    The 2010 Spending Review announced that contributory Employment and Support Allowance for claimants in the Work-Related Activity Group would be limited to 12 months. The time limit takes effect on 30 April 2012. For some claimants, benefit will stop immediately. All recipients of contributory ESA in the WRAG, including Incapacity Benefit claimants “migrated” to ESA on reassessment, will be affected by the time limit. Savings of almost £1.5 billion a year are expected by 2015-16.

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

    Welfare Reform Bill 2010-12: amendments at the Lords Committee and Report stages

    Friday, 27 January, 2012

    The Welfare Reform Bill has its Third Reading in the House of Lords on 31 January 2012. At Report Stage in the Lords, the government suffered defeats on amendments relating to under-occupation of social housing, the Employment and Support Allowance, the proposed benefit cap, and child support maintenance

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

    Uprating of social security benefits

    Monday, 05 December, 2011

    Most but not all benefits are uprated in April each year, by reference to the increase in prices over the year to the previous September. The current Government has adopted the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) as the measure of inflation for uprating purposes. CPI tends to rise more slowly than the measures used. previously. The CPI for September 2011 was higher than expected, and media reports have suggested that the Government was considering changing the basis for uprating benefits. In the Autumn Statement the Chancellor announced that while benefits would increase by the full CPI from April 2011, the couple and lone parent elements of Working Tax Credit would be frozen and the child element of Child Tax Credit would increase by less than was planned.

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

    Welfare Reform Bill: reform of disability benefits, Housing Benefit, and other measures

    Friday, 04 March, 2011

    This paper has been prepared for the Second Reading debate in the House of Commons. For information on the provision in the Bill relating to the introduction of Universal Credit, please see the complementary Library Research Paper, 11/24. Besides Universal Credit, the Bill proposes a number of other significant welfare reforms, including replacement of the current Disability Living Allowance, restriction of Housing Benefit entitlement to social housing tenants whose accommodation is larger than they need, time-limiting the payment of contributory Employment and Support Allowance to twelve months, and capping the total amount of benefit that can be claimed.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Child support
    • Housing benefits
    • Immigration
    • Rented housing
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Welfare Reform and the Universal Credit

    Thursday, 17 February, 2011

    On 11 November 2010 the Government set out plans for a 'Universal Credit' to replace most in work and out of work benefits for people of working age. This note gives an overview of the main features of the Universal Credit and looks at some of the issues raised by the proposals.

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

    Disability Living Allowance reform

    Monday, 14 February, 2011

    The June 2010 Budget announced that a new "objective medical assessment" would be introduced for both new and existing working age DLA claims from 2013-14, saving over £1 billion a year by 2014-15 and reducing the DLA caseload by 20%. On 6 December the Government published a consultation paper, Disability Living Allowance reform, which sets out plans for an entirely new benefit - the "Personal Independence Payment" - to replace DLA, starting from 2013-14.

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

    Time-limiting contributory Employment and Support Allowance

    Thursday, 03 February, 2011

    The Spending Review on 20 October 2010 announced that, from April 2012, for those Employment and Support Allowance claimants assessed as eligible for the Work Related Activity Group, contributory ESA will only be payable for up to one year. Some claimants affected by the change will be able to claim income-based ESA, but it is estimated that around 280,000 could lose entitlement to ESA completely.

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

    Disability Living Allowance mobility component for people in care homes

    Wednesday, 26 January, 2011

    The October 2010 Spending Review announced that the DLA mobility component would be withdrawn from people in care homes whose place was funded by a public body. The proposal was dropped by the Government during the passage of Welfare Reform Bill 2010-12. This note gives background to the original proposal and summarises initial reactions to it.

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

    Support for Mortgage Interest: the standard rate from 1 October 2010 (archived)

    Wednesday, 05 January, 2011

    This Commons Library briefing paper has been archived as it no longer offers up-to-date information. However, we have published other papers which may be of interest.

    • Research Briefing
    • Home ownership
    • Housing benefits
    • Pensions
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Cold Weather Payments for winter 2010/2011

    Thursday, 23 December, 2010

    Cold Weather Payments are made to certain claimants of means-tested benefits during periods of very cold weather. To trigger the £25 payments, the average temperature in an area must be recorded as, or forecast to be, 0°C or below for seven consecutive days.

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

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