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Welfare Reform Bill

Welfare Reform Bill
[AS AMENDED IN PUBLIC BILL COMMITTEE]
Contents
Part 1
Employment and support allowance
Entitlement
1    Employment and support allowance
2    Amount of contributory allowance
3    Deductions from contributory allowance: supplementary
4    Amount of income-related allowance
5    Advance award of income-related allowance
6    Amount payable where claimant entitled to both forms of allowance
7    Exclusion of payments below prescribed minimum
Assessments relating to entitlement
8    Limited capability for work
9    Limited capability for work-related activity
Conditionality
10    Work-focused health-related assessments
11    Work-focused interviews
12    Work-related activity
13    Action plans in connection with work-focused interviews
14    Directions about work-related activity
15    Contracting out
Miscellaneous
16    Income and capital: general
17    Disqualification
18    Pilot schemes
19    Relationship with statutory payments
20    Deemed entitlement for other purposes
21    Supplementary provisions
22    Recovery of sums in respect of maintenance
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General
23    Interpretation of Part 1
24    Regulations
25    Parliamentary control
26    Financial provisions relating to Part 1
27    Consequential amendments relating to Part 1
28    Transition relating to Part 1
Part 2
Housing benefit and council tax benefit
29    Local housing allowance
30    Loss of housing benefit following eviction for anti-social behaviour, etc.
31    Housing benefit and council tax benefit for persons taking up employment
32    Section 31: supplemental
33    Sections 31 and 32: interpretation
34    Information relating to housing benefit
35    Supply of information by rent officers
36    Payment of housing benefit
37    Duty to send inspection reports to the Secretary of State
38    Directions by Secretary of State
39    Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 2
Part 3
Social security administration: general
Sharing of social security information
40    Social security information
41    Information relating to certain benefits
42    Unlawful disclosure of certain information
Overpayment recovery
43    Recovery of overpaid benefit: Great Britain
44    Recovery of overpaid child benefit and guardian’s allowance: Northern
Ireland
Benefit fraud
45    Local authority powers to investigate benefit fraud
46    Local authority powers to prosecute benefit fraud
47    Local authority functions relating to benefit: information
48    Loss of benefit for commission of benefit offences
Part 4
Miscellaneous
Benefits for bereaved persons
49    Widowed mother’s allowance
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50    Widowed parent’s allowance
Disability living allowance: age conditions
51    Care component of disability living allowance: persons under the age of 16
52    Mobility component of disability living allowance: persons under the age of
16
Social fund
53    Matters to which regard must be had in awarding budgeting loans
54    Allocations from Social Fund
Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979
55    Overseas vaccinations
56    Appeals to appeal tribunal in Northern Ireland
Compensation for pneumoconiosis etc.
57    “Relevant employer”
58    “Dependant”
Other
59    Power to stop payment of allowances to care home residents
60    Independent Living Funds
61    Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 4
Part 5
General
62    Northern Ireland
63    General interpretation
64    Financial provisions: general
65    Repeals
66    Transition
67    Extent
68    Commencement
69    Short title
Schedule 1   —    Employment and support allowance: additional conditions
Part 1   —
Contributory allowance
Part 2   —
Income-related allowance
Schedule 2   —    Employment and support allowance: supplementary
provisions
Schedule 3   —    Consequential amendments relating to Part 1
Schedule 4   —    Transition relating to Part 1
Schedule 5   —    Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 2
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Schedule 6   —    Schedule to be inserted in the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’
Compensation) Act 1979
Schedule 7   —    Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 4
Schedule 8   —    Repeals

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