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Working age benefits

  • Research Briefing

    Housing costs in Universal Credit

    Wednesday, 18 August, 2021

    This briefing paper explains the key differences between assistance with housing costs under the Housing Benefit regime and under Universal Credit.

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

    Childcare: support with costs (England)

    Friday, 13 August, 2021

    This briefing paper provides a brief overview of the financial support available to parents and carers in England to help with the costs of formal childcare. Information on Government funding for childcare providers is available in a separate briefing: CBP 8052, Early years funding (England).

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Child care
    • Education
    • Family benefits
    • Further education
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    People from abroad: what benefits can they claim?

    Friday, 06 August, 2021

    This briefing provides a broad overview of the rules on access to benefits for people coming to the UK from abroad. It describes the situation for asylum seekers, nationals from European Economic Area (EEA) countries, and non-EEA nationals.

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

    Universal Credit: Ten years of changes to benefit claims and payments

    Friday, 16 July, 2021

    The introduction of Universal Credit changed the way around seven million working-age households make benefit claims and get paid. This paper explores some key changes, their effect, and the debate surrounding them.

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

    EU Settlement Scheme application deadline

    Thursday, 10 June, 2021

    This briefing is for members and their staff dealing with constituency casework related to the EU Settlement Scheme deadline.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Bereavement benefits
    • Family benefits
    • Health services
    • Housing and planning
    • Housing benefits
    • Immigration
    • Pensions
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
    • Brexit
  • Research Briefing

    Coronavirus: Legacy benefits and the Universal Credit ‘uplift’

    Friday, 28 May, 2021

    This paper outlines the debate around the Government's policy to increase Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit payments, but not payments of DWP means-tested legacy benefits for people of working age, during the coronavirus pandemic.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Diseases
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Working age benefits
    • Covid-19
    • Social security
  • Research Briefing

    Universal Credit: A reading list

    Tuesday, 04 May, 2021

    A Universal Credit reading list covering the new benefit from its development more than a decade ago through to April 2021.

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

    The furlough scheme: One year on

    Wednesday, 24 March, 2021

    How has the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme changed over the year and what might happen once it ends?

    • Insight
    • Benefits policy
    • Government
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
    • Covid-19
  • Constituency Casework

    Universal Credit: a checklist before claiming

    Wednesday, 24 March, 2021

    What people need to know about before claiming Universal Credit.

    • Constituency Casework
    • Benefits
    • Benefits policy
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Welfare and pensions
    • Working age benefits
  • 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

    Coronavirus: Universal Credit during the crisis

    Friday, 15 January, 2021

    This House of Commons Library briefing paper explores how Universal Credit has coped and changed during the coronavirus crisis so far, and what challenges lie ahead for this benefit.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Diseases
    • Working age benefits
    • Covid-19
    • Social security
  • Debate Pack

    Opposition Day Debate: A Motion relating to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit

    Friday, 15 January, 2021

    On Monday 18 January 2021, there will be an Opposition Day Debate on a Motion relating to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit.

    • Debate Pack
    • Benefits policy
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Constituency Casework

    Universal Credit information sources

    Thursday, 14 January, 2021

    Key Universal Credit resources for caseworkers.

    • Constituency Casework
    • Welfare and pensions
    • 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

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