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Working age benefits

  • 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.

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    • Asylum
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    • 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.

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

    Coronavirus: Claiming welfare benefits (2020)

    Thursday, 02 April, 2020

    Coronavirus may create significant new demands on the benefits system.

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

    The Universal Credit assessment period and earned income

    Thursday, 09 January, 2020

    This Commons Library briefing looks at the problems working Universal Credit claimants can experience because of the assessment period rules, and at the implications of a recent High Court judgment.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Working age benefits
    • Social security
  • Constituency Casework

    Appealing benefits decisions beyond the First-Tier Tribunal

    Friday, 13 December, 2019

    How people can challenge a benefits decision beyond the First-Tier Tribunal

    • Constituency Casework
    • Benefits policy
    • Welfare and pensions
    • Working age benefits
    • Social security
  • Constituency Casework

    Challenging benefits decisions

    Friday, 13 December, 2019

    How people who are unhappy with a decision on a benefit claim can challenge the decision.

    • Constituency Casework
    • Benefits policy
    • Welfare and pensions
    • Working age benefits
    • 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
  • Research Briefing

    Under-occupying social housing: Housing Benefit entitlement

    Friday, 01 November, 2019

    This Briefing Paper provides information on which claimants are affected by the reduction in Housing Benefit/housing element of Universal Credit when under-occupying a social rented home. The policy is often referred to as 'the removal of the Spare Room Subsidy' or the 'bedroom tax'. The benefit reduction has been in place since 1 April 2013. The paper has been updated to include some of the more recent legal challenges to the under-occupation deduction.

    • Research Briefing
    • Housing and planning
    • Housing benefits
    • Rented housing
    • Working age benefits
    • Social security
  • Insight

    How can EU nationals access UK benefits?

    Friday, 30 August, 2019

    What are the rules for EU nationals accessing UK benefits, including Universal Credit, and how might they be affected by Brexit?

    • Insight
    • Benefits
    • Benefits policy
    • Working age benefits
    • Brexit
    • 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
  • Debate Pack

    Universal Credit and Debt

    Monday, 03 June, 2019

    On 5 June 2019 there will be a Westminster Hall debate regarding universal credit and debt. The debate will be led by Ruth George MP.

    • Debate Pack
    • Benefits policy
    • Bereavement benefits
    • Family benefits
    • Housing benefits
    • Pensions
    • Sickness, disability and carers' benefits
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
    • Social security
  • Research Briefing

    2019 Benefits Uprating

    Friday, 01 March, 2019

    2019/20 is the final year of the four-year freeze, which keeps most working-age benefits and tax credits at their 2015/16 cash values. Non-frozen benefits, mainly those aimed at disabled people and carers, rise in line with CPI inflation (+2.4%). The triple lock delivers a 2.6% increase to the new State Pension (£168.60 in 2019/20) and the Basic State Pension (£129.20).

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

    What if there’s no Brexit deal?

    Friday, 08 February, 2019

    What could happen if the EU and UK negotiators don't agree a withdrawal agreement in time and the UK has to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 without one - and with no framework for future relations either? This paper looks at how such a situation might come about, the constitutional implications for the UK and in some cases for the devolved administrations, and what the impact might be in a range of policy areas.

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    The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill 2017-19

    Friday, 25 January, 2019

    The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill 2017-19 was published on 20 December 2018 and its First Reading in the House of Commons took place that day. MPs will next consider the Bill at Second Reading, which will take place on Wednesday 16 January 2019.

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  • Debate Pack

    Mental health and the benefits assessment process

    Monday, 21 January, 2019

    This House of Commons Library debate pack briefing has been published in advance of a debate entitled “Mental health and the benefits assessment process”. This will be led by Angela Crawley MP and will take place on 22 January 2019 in Westminster Hall, starting at 2.30pm.

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