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Working age benefits

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

    Council Tax Reduction Schemes

    Monday, 24 August, 2020

    This House of Commons Library Briefing Paper provides information on the implementation of local Council Tax Reduction Schemes since 1 April 2013. These local support schemes have replaced the national scheme of Council Tax Benefit.

    • Research Briefing
    • Housing and planning
    • Housing benefits
    • Local government
    • 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
  • Insight

    Coronavirus: Which workers are economically impacted?

    Tuesday, 02 June, 2020

    This Insight examines which workers have been most economically impacted by the outbreak of coronavirus.

    • Insight
    • Diseases
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
    • Covid-19
    • Social security
  • Insight

    Coronavirus: Increases to benefits payments

    Wednesday, 27 May, 2020

    This Insight explores the increases in Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit payments in response to the coronavirus crisis.

    • Insight
    • Benefits
    • Benefits policy
    • Diseases
    • Working age benefits
    • Covid-19
    • Social security

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