Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007
Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (2007 c. 2 (N.I.))
- Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (2007 c. 2 (N.I.))
- PART 1 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE
- Entitlement
- 1 Employment and support allowance
- 1A Duration of contributory allowance
- 1B Further entitlement after time-limiting
- 1C Claimant commitment
- 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
- Work-related requirements
- 11 Work-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 Concurrent exercise of certain functions by Department for Employment and Learning
- 11L 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
- 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, etc. of Part 1
- 25 Regulations and orders
- 26 Assembly 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
- 30 Local housing allowance
- 31 Loss of housing benefit following eviction for anti-social behaviour, etc.
- 32 Housing benefit for persons taking up employment
- 33 Section 32: supplemental
- 34 Sections 32 and 33: interpretation
- 35 Payment of housing benefit
- 36 Directions by Department
- 37 Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 2
- PART 3 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION: GENERAL
- Sharing of social security information
- 38 Social security information
- 39 Information relating to certain benefits
- 40 Unlawful disclosure of certain information
- Overpayment recovery
- 41 Recovery of overpaid benefit
- Benefit fraud
- 42 Housing Executive powers to investigate benefit fraud
- 43 Housing Executive powers to prosecute benefit fraud
- 44 Housing Executive functions relating to benefit: information
- 45 Loss of benefit for commission of benefit offences
- PART 4 MISCELLANEOUS
- Benefits for bereaved persons
- 46 Widowed mother's allowance
- 47 Widowed parent's allowance
- Disability living allowance: age conditions
- 48 Care component of disability living allowance: persons under the age of 16
- 49 Mobility component of disability living allowance: persons under the age of 16
- Social fund
- 50 Matters to which regard must be had in awarding budgeting loans
- 51 Allocations from Social Fund
- Compensation for pneumoconiosis etc.
- 52 “Relevant employer”
- 53 “Dependant”
- Other
- 54 Power to stop payment of allowances to care home residents
- 55 Medical examinations
- 56 Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 4
- PART 5 GENERAL
- 57 Interpretation
- 58 Repeals
- 59 Transition
- 60 Commencement
- 61 Short title
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE: ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS
- PART 1 CONTRIBUTORY ALLOWANCE
- Conditions relating to national insurance
- Condition relating to youth
- “Relevant benefit week”
- PART 2 INCOME-RELATED ALLOWANCE
- SCHEDULE 2 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE: SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS
- Limited capability for work
- Waiting days
- Periods of less than a week
- Linking periods
- Exemption
- Presence in Northern Ireland
- Contributory allowance: entitlement in case of absence from Northern Ireland
- Contributory allowance: modification in relation to employment on ships etc.
- Income-related allowance: entitlement in case of absence from Northern Ireland
- Limited capability for work-related activity
- Effect of work
- Good reason for failure to comply with certain regulations
- Responsibility for children
- 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
- SCHEDULE 3 CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS RELATING TO PART 1
- The Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (NI 20)
- The Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (NI 23)
- The Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7)
- The Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8)
- The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 2)
- The Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 15)
- The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 18)
- The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 22)
- The Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (NI 18)
- The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (NI 10)
- The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33)
- The Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (NI 11)
- The Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4)
- The Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 17)
- 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
- The Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8)
- The Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4)
- SCHEDULE 6 SCHEDULE TO BE INSERTED IN THE PNEUMOCONIOSIS, ETC., (WORKERS' COMPENSATION) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1979
- SCHEDULE 7 MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS RELATING TO PART 4
- The Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7)
- The Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8)
- The Deregulation and Contracting Out (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (NI 11)
- The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (NI 10)
- SCHEDULE 8 REPEALS
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