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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
  • Research Briefing

    Scotland Bill: Welfare & Employment Support (Bill 3 of 2015-16)

    Thursday, 04 June, 2015

    This briefing provides detailed information on the welfare and employment support provisions in the Scotland Bill. The Bill is scheduled to receive its Second Reading on 8 June 2015. With the exception of a new power to top-up reserved benefits, there are no substantive differences between the welfare and employment provisions in the Bill and the previously published draft clauses.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Devolution
    • Housing benefits
    • Work and incomes
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Further proposals to restrict migrants’ access to benefits

    Friday, 20 March, 2015

    In his keynote speech on immigration on 28 November 2014, the Prime Minister set out plans to secure agreement on changes to European law on free movement of persons in order to allow the UK to, among other things, deny EEA migrants in-work benefits for four years and prevent Child Benefit being paid for children living abroad. Proposals to further restrict EEA migrants’ access to benefits have also been put forward by Labour and by the Liberal Democrats.

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

    Further devolution of powers to Scotland: devolved benefits and additional discretionary payments

    Wednesday, 18 February, 2015

    Examines the Smith Commission’s proposals to devolve responsibility to the Scottish Parliament for certain key benefits, such as disability and carers' benefits. It also looks at the Draft Scotland Clauses in this area.

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

    Further devolution of powers to Scotland: Universal Credit housing element and payment arrangements

    Friday, 06 February, 2015

    This note explains the Smith Commission’s proposals and the Draft Scotland Clauses in relation to Universal Credit (UC), including the housing costs element (currently Housing Benefit). As it stands, UC will remain a reserved benefit but the Scottish Parliament would be given the power to vary the housing costs element of UC, and powers to vary the manner and frequency of UC payments.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Devolution
    • Housing benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    2015 Benefit uprating

    Sunday, 21 December, 2014

    State pension, benefit and tax credit increases in April 2015 - what the rates are and how are they are calculated.

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • Pensions
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Autumn Statement 2014: a summary

    Wednesday, 03 December, 2014

    This note provides a summary of the 2014 Autumn Statement, including changes to Stamp Duty, and the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) latest economic and fiscal forecasts.

    • Research Briefing
    • Economic policy
    • Economic situation
    • Housing and planning
    • Tax
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Benefit Entitlement (Restriction) Bill 2014-15

    Thursday, 27 November, 2014

    The Benefit Entitlement (Restriction) Bill is a Private Members’ Bill presented by Christopher Chope. The Bill makes provision “to restrict the entitlement of non-UK Citizens from the European Union and the European Economic Area to taxpayer-funded benefits.” The Bill provides that the restrictions on entitlement are “notwithstanding the provisions of the European Communities Act 1972.”

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

    Statistics on migrants and benefits

    Thursday, 27 November, 2014

    This note collates the main data available on UK benefits paid to migrants or in respect of children living abroad.

    • Research Briefing
    • Family benefits
    • Immigration
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Votes in Parliament on the under-occupation deduction from Housing Benefit

    Monday, 24 November, 2014

    This note provides information on when divisions (votes) concerning this measure (referred to as the 'bedroom tax' and also the 'spare room subsidy' have taken place in Parliament and on the outcome of those divisions. Details are provided on how the different Parties voted.

    • Research Briefing
    • Housing and planning
    • Housing benefits
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Cold Weather Payments for winter 2014/2015

    Thursday, 13 November, 2014

    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. The amount is £25 a week for eligible benefit claimants.

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

    Impact on the UK of Scottish independence: social security and tax credits

    Thursday, 07 August, 2014

    In the event Scotland becoming an independent country, the Scottish and Westminster governments would have to address two main issues with regard to welfare provision: how to deliver benefits and tax credits in the initial transitional period following independence; and how the two countries' systems should relate to each other in the longer term.

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

    Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit for children resident in other EEA countries

    Friday, 18 July, 2014

    Domestic legislation provides that both Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit cannot normally be paid in respect of children resident abroad. However, under provisions in EU law on social security coordination within the European Economic Area (EEA), Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit may be payable to EEA migrants in the United Kingdom in respect of their dependent children resident in another Member State.

    • Research Briefing
    • Family benefits
    • Immigration
    • The EU
    • Working age benefits
  • Research Briefing

    Self-employed people and contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance

    Wednesday, 16 July, 2014

    Self-employed people are eligible for the same contributory benefits and pension as employed earners, with one exception. Self-employed people cannot claim contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA).

    • Research Briefing
    • Benefits policy
    • National Insurance
    • Working age benefits

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