Research Briefing
There is an upper age limit for new claims of benefits that provide support for mobility - now the State Pension Age. This means that some older people cannot get benefits for mobility needs and cannot access linked schemes such as Motability.
Research Briefing
The Department for Work and Pensions made a series of changes to the social security system in response to the pandemic. Most have now been withdrawn.
Research Briefing
The key differences between support with housing costs in Housing Benefit and Universal Credit.
Research Briefing
This briefing paper brings together details of the main changes to the rent safety net announced since 2010. It covers the savings achieved through changes to Housing Benefit and the Universal Credit housing costs element, as well as the impact of these policies, and the debate that surrounds them.
Research Briefing
The introduction of Universal Credit changed the way around seven million working-age households make benefit claims and get paid. This paper explores some key changes, their effect, and the debate surrounding them.
Research Briefing
This paper explains the support available for victims and survivors of domestic abuse. This includes support from housing and social security agencies, and specialist domestic abuse support services such as Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs) and refuges.
Research Briefing
This briefing is for members and their staff dealing with constituency casework related to the EU Settlement Scheme deadline.
Research Briefing
This paper outlines the debate around the Government's policy to increase Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit payments, but not payments of DWP means-tested legacy benefits for people of working age, during the coronavirus pandemic.
Research Briefing
A Universal Credit reading list covering the new benefit from its development more than a decade ago through to April 2021.
Research Briefing
The Budget extended some crisis social security measures and announced other changes to the benefits system.
Insight
The Budget extended some crisis social security measures and announced other changes to the benefits system.
Debate Pack
On Monday 18 January 2021, there will be an Opposition Day Debate on a Motion relating to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit.
Research Briefing
This briefing looks at the aims which governments since 2010 have set out to justify major welfare reforms.
Debate Pack
A debate on 'the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on the DWP’s response to the Coronavirus Outbreak’ has been scheduled for Thursday 26 November 2020.
Debate Pack
This Commons Library debate pack briefing has been prepared in advance of a debate in Westminster Hall on "the introduction of a universal basic income" scheduled for Tuesday 13 October 2020 at 9.30 am . The debate will be led by Ronnie Cowan MP, Neil Gray MP, Clive Lewis MP and Layla Moran MP.
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