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Session 2005 - 06 Publications on the internet Other Bills before Parliament Arrangement of Clauses (Contents)

Index to Welfare Reform Bill

INTRODUCTION SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND Housing benefit and council tax benefit Sharing of social security information Overpayment recovery Benefit fraud: the "two strikes" rule Disability living allowance: age conditions Social Fund Vaccine Damage Payments: overseas vaccinations Vaccine Damage Payments: appeals to appeal tribunals in Northern Ireland Compensation for Pneumoconiosis Attendance allowance/disability living allowance and care home residents Independent Living Funds BILL OVERVIEW TERRITORIAL EXTENT COMMENTARY ON CLAUSES Clause 2: Amount of contributory allowance and; Clause 3: Deductions from contributory allowance: supplementary Clause 4: Amount of income-related allowance Clause 5: Advance award of income-related allowance Clause 6: Amount payable where claimants entitled to both forms of allowance Clause 8: Limited capability for work Clause 9: Limited capability for work-related activity Clause 10: Work-focused health-related assessments Clause 11: Work-focused interviews Clause 12: Work-related activity Clause 13: Action plans in connection with work-focused interviews Clause 14: Directions about work related activity Clause 15: Contracting out Clause 16: Income and capital: general Clause 17: Disqualification Clause 18: Pilot schemes Clause 19: Relationship with statutory payments Clause 20: Supplementary Provisions Clause 22: Regulations Clause 23: Parliamentary control: Clause 24: General financial arrangements Clause 25: Consequential amendments relating to Part 1 Clause 26: Transition relating to Part 1 PART 2: Housing benefit and council tax benefit Clause 28: Loss of housing benefit following eviction for anti-social behaviour, etc Clause 29: Housing and Council Tax Benefit for persons taking up employment; Clause 30: supplemental and; Clause 31: interpretation Clause 32: Information relating to housing benefit Clause 33: Supply of information by rent officers Clause 34: Payment of housing benefit Clause 35: Duty to send inspection reports to the Secretary of State and; Clause 36: Directions by Secretary of State PART 3: Social Security Administration: General Clause 39: Information relating to certain benefits Clause 40: Unlawful disclosure of certain information Clause 41: Recovery of overpaid benefit: Great Britain Clause 42: Recovery of overpaid child benefit and guardian's allowance: Northern Ireland Clauses 43 and 44: local authority powers to investigate and prosecute benefit fraud Clause 45: Local authority functions relating to benefit: information Clause 46: Loss of benefit for commission of benefit offences PART 4: Miscellaneous Clause 49: Care component of disability living allowance: persons under the age of 16 Clause 50: Mobility component of disability living allowance: persons under the age of 16 Clause 51: Matters to which regard must be had in awarding budgeting loans Clause 52: Allocations from the Social Fund Clause 53: Overseas vaccinations Clause 54: Appeals to appeal tribunal in Northern Ireland Clause 55: "Relevant employer" Clause 56: "Dependant" Clause 57: Power to stop payment of allowances to care home residents Clause 58: Independent Living Funds General Clause 63: Repeals Schedule 1 - Employment and support allowance: additional conditions Schedule 5 - Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 2 Schedule 6 - Schedule to be inserted in the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979 FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF THE BILL Housing benefit and council tax benefit Overpayment recovery Part 4 of the Bill (Miscellaneous) EFFECTS OF THE BILL ON PUBLIC SERVICE MANPOWER Housing benefit and council tax benefit Overpayment recovery Benefit fraud Part 4 of the Bill SUMMARY OF THE REGULATORY IMPACT ASSESSMENT Housing benefit and council tax benefit Overpayment recovery Benefit fraud EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS TRANSPOSITION NOTES

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