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Session 2008-09
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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 jobseekers 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 jobseekers allowance
Clause 11: Conditions for contributory employment and support allowance
Clause 12: Maternity allowance and carers 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: Jobseekers 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 jobseekers 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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Prepared: 14 January 2009