Welfare Reform Act 2007
Welfare Reform Act 2007 (2007 c. 5)
- Welfare Reform Act 2007 (2007 c. 5)
- Part 1 Employment and support allowance
- Entitlement
- 1 Employment and support allowance
- 1A Duration of contributory allowance
- 1B Further entitlement after time-limiting
- 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 assessmentsWork-related requirements
- 11A Claimant commitment
- 11B Work-focused interview requirement
- 11C Work preparation requirement
- 11D Persons subject to no work-related requirements
- 11E Persons subject to work-focused interview requirement only
- 11F Persons subject to work preparation and work-focused interview requirement
- 11G Connected requirements
- 11H Imposition of requirements
- 11I Compliance with requirements
- 11J Sanctions
- 11K Delegation and contracting out
- 12 Work-focused interviews
- 13 Work-related activity
- 14 Action plans in connection with work-focused interviews
- 15 Directions about work-related activity
- 15A Persons dependent on drugs etc.
- 16 Contracting out
- 16A Hardship payments
- 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
- General
- 24 Interpretation of Part 1
- 25 Regulations and orders
- 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
- 51 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
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Employment and support allowance: additional conditions
- Part 1 ...
- Conditions relating to national insurance
- Condition relating to youth
- “Relevant benefit week”
- Part 2 Income-related allowance
- SCHEDULE 1A Persons dependent on drugs etc.
- Requirements imposed in relation to use of drugs
- Paragraphs 1 to 3: supplementary
- Voluntary and mandatory rehabilitation plans
- Sanctions
- Information
- Interpretation
- Power to extend provisions to alcohol
- SCHEDULE 2 Employment and support allowance: supplementary provisions
- Limited capability for work
- Waiting days
- Periods of less than a week
- Linking periods
- Presence in Great Britain
- Contributory allowance: entitlement in case of absence from Great Britain
- Contributory allowance: modification in relation to employment on ships etc.
- Income-related allowance: entitlement in case of absence from Great Britain
- Limited capability for work-related activity
- Effect of work
- Treatment of allowance as “benefit”
- Attribution of reductions in cases where allowance taken to consist of two elements
- Treatment of information supplied as information relating to social security
- Advance claims
- Members of the forces
- SCHEDULE 3 Consequential amendments relating to Part 1
- Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49)
- Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 41)
- Transport Act 1982 (c. 49)
- Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 47)
- Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1)
- Children Act 1989 (c. 41)
- Child Support Act 1991 (c. 48)
- Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53)
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4)
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
- Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14)
- Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18)
- Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26)
- Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 36)
- Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (c. 17)
- Education Act 1996 (c. 56)
- Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14)
- Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30)
- Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33)
- Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19)
- Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22)
- Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 4)
- Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (c. 11)
- Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1)
- SCHEDULE 4 Transition relating to Part 1
- General power to provide for transition relating to Part 1
- Pre-commencement claims
- Post-commencement claims
- Award of employment and support allowance for pre-commencement period
- Matching of awards of employment and support allowance
- Treatment of existing awards
- Transitional allowances
- Post-commencement up-rating of incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance
- Interpretation
- SCHEDULE 5 Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 2
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4)
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
- Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39)
- Housing Act 1996 (c. 52)
- Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19)
- Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)
- SCHEDULE 6 Schedule to be inserted in the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979
- SCHEDULE 7 Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 4
- Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 (c. 17)
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4)
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
- Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14)
- SCHEDULE 8 Repeals
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