Welfare Reform Bill

Session 2010 - 11
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Welfare Reform Bill

Welfare Reform Bill

EXPLANATORY NOTES
Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department for Work and Pensions, are
published separately as Billl 154—EN.
EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a)
of the Human Rights Act 1998:
In my view the provisions of the Welfare Reform Bill are compatible with the
Convention rights.

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Contents
Part 1
Universal credit
Chapter 1
Entitlement and awards
Introductory
1
Universal credit
2
Claims
Entitlement
3
Entitlement
4
Basic conditions
5
Financial conditions
6
Restrictions on entitlement
Awards
7
Basis of awards
8
Calculation of awards
Elements of an award
9
Standard allowance
10
Responsibility for children and young persons
11
Housing costs
12
Other particular needs or circumstances

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Chapter 2
Claimant responsibilities
Introductory
13
Work-related requirements: introductory
14
Claimant commitment
Work-related requirements
15
Work-focused interview requirement
16
Work preparation requirement
17
Work search requirement
18
Work availability requirement
Application of work-related requirements
19
Claimants subject to no work-related requirements
20
Claimants subject to work-focused interview requirement only
21
Claimants subject to work preparation requirement
22
Claimants subject to all work-related requirements
Work-related requirements: supplementary
23
Connected requirements
24
Imposition of requirements
25
Compliance with requirements
Reduction of benefit
26
Higher-level sanctions
27
Other sanctions
28
Hardship payments
Administration
29
Delegation and contracting out
30
Regulations: piloting
Chapter 3
Supplementary and general
Supplementary and consequential
31
Supplementary regulation-making powers
32
Supplementary and consequential amendments
33
Power to make supplementary and consequential provision etc
Universal credit and other benefits
34
Abolition of benefits
35
Universal credit and state pension credit

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Universal credit and working-age benefits
37
Migration to universal credit
General
38
Capability for work or work-related activity
39
Information
40
Couples
41
Interpretation of Part 1
Regulations
42
Regulations: general
43
Regulations: procedure
Part 2
Working-age benefits
Chapter 1
Jobseeker’s allowance
Claimant responsibilities for interim period
44
Claimant commitment for jobseeker’s allowance
45
Interviews
46
Sanctions
47
Procedure for regulation-making powers
48
Consequential amendments
Claimant responsibilities after introduction of universal credit
49
Claimant responsibilities for jobseeker’s allowance
Chapter 2
Employment and support allowance
Conditions of entitlement
50
Dual entitlement
51
Period of entitlement to contributory allowance
52
Condition relating to youth
Claimant responsibilities for interim period
53
Claimant commitment for employment and support allowance
54
Work experience etc
55
Hardship payments
Claimant responsibilities after introduction of universal credit
56
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Chapter 3
Income support
57
Entitlement of lone parents to income support etc
58
Claimant commitment for income support
Chapter 4
Miscellaneous
Claimants dependent on drugs
59
Claimants dependent on drugs etc
Entitlement to work
60
Entitlement to work: jobseeker’s allowance
61
Entitlement to work: employment and support allowance
62
Entitlement to work: maternity allowance and statutory payments
Part 3
Other benefit changes
Industrial injuries benefit
63
Injuries arising before 5 July 1948
64
Persons under 18
65
Trainees
66
Restriction on new claims for industrial death benefit
67
Determinations
Housing benefit
68
Housing benefit: determination of appropriate maximum
Social fund
69
Ending of discretionary payments
70
Purposes of discretionary payments
71
Determination of amount or value of budgeting loan
72
External provider social loans and community care grants
State pension credit
73
State pension credit: carers
74
State pension credit: capital limit

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Part 4
Personal independence payment
Personal independence payment
75
Personal independence payment
76
Daily living component
77
Mobility component
78
Ability to carry out daily living activities or mobility activities
79
Required period condition: further provision
Entitlement and payability: further provision
80
Terminal illness
81
Persons of pensionable age
82
No entitlement to daily living component where UK is not competent state
83
Persons receiving certain services
84
Prisoners
Supplementary
85
Claims, awards and information
86
Report to Parliament
General
87
Abolition of disability living allowance
88
Amendments
89
Power to make supplementary and consequential provision
90
Transitional
91
Regulations
92
Interpretation of Part 4
Part 5
Social security: general
Benefit cap
93
Benefit cap
94
Benefit cap: supplementary
Claims and awards
95
Claims and awards
96
Powers to require information relating to claims and awards
Payments
97
Payments to joint claimants
98
Payments on account

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