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Index to Welfare Reform Bill

INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY Part 1 - Social security Part 5 - Miscellaneous and supplementary TERRITORIAL EXTENT COMMENTARY ON CLAUSES Clause 2: Work-related activity: income support claimants and partners of claimants Clause 3: Entitlement to jobseeker’s allowance without seeking employment etc. Clause 5: Statutory sick pay and employment and support allowance Clause 6: Transitional provision relating to sections 3 to 5 Clause 7: Abolition of income support Clause 8: Power to direct claimant to undertake specific work-related activity Clause 9: Claimants dependent on drugs Clause 10: Conditions for contributory jobseeker’s allowance Clause 11: Conditions for contributory employment and support allowance Clause 12: Maternity allowance and carer’s allowance Clause 13: External provider social loans Clause 14: Power to restrict availability of social fund loans Clause 15: Supply of information to or by lenders making external provider social loans Clause 16: Community care grants relating to specified goods or services Clause 17: Community care grants: reviews and information Clause 18: Payments on account Clause 19: Loss of benefit provisions Clause 20: Jobseeker’s allowance: sanctions for violent conduct in connection with claim Clause 21: State pension credit: pilot schemes Clause 22: Period for which pilot schemes have effect Clause 23: Contracting out functions under Jobseekers Act 1995 Clause 24: Attendance in connection with jobseeker’s allowance: sanctions Clause 25: Social security information and employment or training information Clause 26: Persons under pensionable age to take part in work-focused interviews Clause 27: Minor amendments Part 2: Disabled people: right to control provision of services Clause 29: Relevant services Clause 30: Relevant authority Clause 31: Power to make provision enabling exercise of greater choice and control Clause 32: Provision that may be made about direct payments Clause 33: Exercise of rights on behalf of persons who lack capacity Clause 34: Pilot schemes Clause 35: The appropriate authority by which regulations under section 31 are made Clause 36: Regulations under section 31: supplementary provisions Clause 37: Consultation Clause 38: Regulations under section 31: control by Parliament or other legislature Part 3: Child maintenance Clause 41: Report on operation of driving licences amendments Clause 42: Payments of child support maintenance Clause 43: Child support maintenance: offences relating to information Part 4: Birth registration Part 5: Miscellaneous and supplementary Clause 46: Repeals and revocations Clause 48: Extent Clause 49: Commencement SCHEDULES Schedule 2 - Abolition of income support: consequential amendments Schedule 3 - Claimants dependent on drugs etc. Schedule 4 - Loss of benefit provisions: further amendments Schedule 5 - Section 40: consequential amendments Schedule 6 - Registration of births Schedule 7 - Repeals and revocations EFFECTS OF THE BILL ON PUBLIC SECTOR MANPOWER IMPACT ASSESSMENT EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Revised system of working age benefits Part 2 Disabled people: Right to control provision of services Part 3 Child maintenance Part 4 Birth registration COMMENCEMENT DATES

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