Welfare Reform Bill

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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 HL Bill 24—EN.
EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Lord McKenzie of Luton 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
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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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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