Research Briefing
Statutory Sick Pay and Sickness Absence
This note gives an overview of the Statutory Sick Pay (SPP) scheme and sets out some of the issues that may arise when an employee is absent from work due to illness.
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Research Briefing
Child Poverty Bill. Bill 112 of 2008-09
This briefing on the Child Poverty Bill has been prepared for the Second Reading debate on the Bill in the House of Commons.
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Research Briefing
Welfare Reform Bill: Committee Stage report
This is a report on the Committee Stage of the Welfare Reform Bill. It complements Research Papers 09/08 and 09/09 prepared for Commons Second Reading.
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Research Briefing
Welfare Reform Bill: social security provisions
This paper is one of two which examine the main proposals of the Welfare Reform Bill 2008-09. It deals with Part 1 of the Bill, which includes provisions to establish a 'work for your benefit' scheme for the long-term unemployed, to allow piloting of the 'personalised conditionality' regime, and to enable the future abolition of income support. See also Research Paper 09/09.
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Research Briefing
The Christmas Bonus and the associated 60 pound one-off payment for 2008-09
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on the Christmas Bonus and the associated 60 pound one-off payment for 2008-09, from 2009.
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Research Briefing
Tax credits and childcare costs
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on tax credits and childcare costs, from 2009.
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Research Briefing
2009 Benefit Uprating
Sets out the basis for the uprating of benefits and tax credits in 2009
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Research Briefing
Means-tested benefits: help with mortgage costs (archived)
This Commons Library briefing paper has been archived as it no longer offers up-to-date information. However, we have published other papers which may be of interest.
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Research Briefing
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill – progress of the Bill
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill - progress of the Bill, from 2008.
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Research Briefing
Health and Social Care Bill, Bill 9 of 2007-08
Health and Social Care Bill. (Bill 9 of 2007/08). House of Commons Library Research Paper 07/81.
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Research Briefing
Third Party Deductions from social security benefits
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on Third Party Deductions from social security benefits, from 2007.
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Research Briefing
Recovery of social security benefits from compensation awards
Recovery of social security benefits from compensation awards. By Steven Kennedy. SN/SP/168.
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Research Briefing
Tax credits: recent developments
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on tax credits: recent developments, from 2007.
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Research Briefing
2007 Benefit Uprating
Sets out social security and tax credit rates from April 2007, including underpinning factors
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