Welfare Reform Bill

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Welfare Reform Bill

Welfare Reform Bill

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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
10
Report
Conditionality
11
Work-focused health-related assessments
12
Work-focused interviews
13
Work-related activity
14
Action plans in connection with work-focused interviews
15
Directions about work-related activity
16
Contracting out
Miscellaneous
17
Income and capital: general
18
Disqualification
19
Pilot schemes
20
Relationship with statutory payments
21
Deemed entitlement for other purposes
22
Supplementary provisions
23
Recovery of sums in respect of maintenance

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General
24
Interpretation of Part 1
25
Regulations
26
Parliamentary control
27
Financial provisions relating to Part 1
28
Consequential amendments relating to Part 1
29
Transition relating to Part 1
Part 2
Housing benefit and council tax benefit
30
Local housing allowance
31
Loss of housing benefit following eviction for anti-social behaviour, etc.
32
Housing benefit and council tax benefit for persons taking up employment
33
Section 32 : supplemental
34
Sections 32 and 33 : interpretation
35
Information relating to housing benefit
36
Supply of information by rent officers
37
Payment of housing benefit
38
Duty to send inspection reports to the Secretary of State
39
Directions by Secretary of State
40
Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 2
Part 3
Social security administration: general
Sharing of social security information
41
Social security information
42
Information relating to certain benefits
43
Unlawful disclosure of certain information
Overpayment recovery
44
Recovery of overpaid benefit: Great Britain
45
Recovery of overpaid child benefit and guardian’s allowance: Northern
Ireland
Benefit fraud
46
Local authority powers to investigate benefit fraud
47
Local authority powers to prosecute benefit fraud
48
Local authority functions relating to benefit: information
49
Loss of benefit for commission of benefit offences
Part 4
Miscellaneous
Benefits for bereaved persons
50
Widowed mother’s allowance

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Widowed parent’s allowance
Disability living allowance: age conditions
52
Care component of disability living allowance: persons under the age of 16
53
Mobility component of disability living allowance: persons under the age of
16
Social fund
54
Matters to which regard must be had in awarding budgeting loans
55
Allocations from Social Fund
Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979
56
Overseas vaccinations
57
Appeals to appeal tribunal in Northern Ireland
Compensation for pneumoconiosis etc.
58
“Relevant employer”
59
“Dependant”
Other
60
Power to stop payment of allowances to care home residents
61
Independent Living Funds
62
Medical examinations
63
Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 4
Part 5
General
64
Northern Ireland
65
General interpretation
66
Financial provisions: general
67
Repeals
68
Transition
69
Extent
70
Commencement
71
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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