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Welfare Reform and Work Bill
Here we go ... Welfare Reform and Work Bill 2015-2016 is out
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork.html
Benefits cap for single people £15,410 in London, £13,400 outside
There may still be a LCW component for those coming onto ESA from SDA, IB or IS.
New name for the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission ..
.. the Social Mobility Commission (see what they did there?)
Plus “The Child Poverty Act 2010 may be cited as the Life Chances Act 2010, and accordingly, in section 32 of that Act (short title) for “Child Poverty” substitute “Life Chances”.”
Loans instead of mortgage interest, repayment when the house is sold or on getting a job (apparently). Interest and administrative charges to be added to the loan.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for the amounts?
I know I heard him halve the tax credit threshold and do something to UC etc, but my pen didn’t keep up and now can’t see it in the bill.
Thank you
there’s a lot that’s not in the Bill .... but there’s more info in our Budget story from yesterday
Chancellor sets out £12bn of welfare savings by 2019/2020 in ‘Budget for working people’
Great start for me, cheers.
The government has been challenged to justify an “incredibly distasteful” proposal in Wednesday’s budget which would require a woman who had a third child as the result of rape to justify her position in order to avoid losing tax credits.
The plans to restrict child tax credits to two children for new claimants from 2017 incorporate a number of exemptions, including multiple births, and set out that “the Department for Work and Pensions and HMRC will develop protections for women who have a third child as a result of rape or other exceptional circumstances”.
Alison Thewliss, SNP MP for Glasgow Central, who first drew attention to the clause on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon, described what would inevitably result in a woman having to prove to a DWP official that she had been raped as appalling.
Not much I can add, except to say that I agree with Ms Thewliss.
MP challenges child tax credit plan that could require women to prove rape
The explanatory notes to the Bill have now been published
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html
Not to mention that a woman in that position would then have the additional trauma of knowing that anyone at HMRC/the DWP whom she deals with at any point will immediately know that she must have been raped….
But hey- nothing surprises me about this lot any more.
DWP has published paper for House of Lords Select Committee on Delegated Powers and Regulatory
Reform setting out provisions for delegated legislation in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, the reason why powers are left to delegated legislation and, where applicable, why they are not subject to any parliamentary
procedure -
Restricts the payment of the individual element to two children (with
exceptions) where the claimant is or becomes responsible for a child or
QYP born on or after 6 April 207
BC or AD…...?
It is a social philosophy advocating the improvement of human genetic traits through the promotion of higher rates of sexual reproduction for people with desired traits (positive eugenics), or reduced rates of sexual reproduction and sterilization of people with less-desired or undesired traits (negative eugenics), or both
We’ve just heard that 2nd reading of the Bill has been bought forward to Monday 20 July.