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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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