Research Briefing
Permitted Work Rules
This Commons Library briefing paper gives an overview of the Permitted Work Rules, which allow people in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance to do some paid work without it affecting their benefit.
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Research Briefing
Housing Benefit entitlement: renting from relatives
This briefing paper explains how entitlement to Housing Benefit may be affected when a claimant is renting from a close relative.
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Research Briefing
Housing Benefit: under-occupation in the private rented sector
This Commons Library briefing paper explains the application of size criteria to people claiming Housing Benefit and under-occupying their homes in the private rented sector.
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Research Briefing
EU Agencies and post-Brexit options
What are EU agencies and what do they do? Will the UK be able to participate in their activities after Brexit? And what will happen to the two that are based in the UK? This paper looks at the roles and functions of EU agencies, the issues surrounding the two UK-based agencies, and whether there are options for continued UK participation after Brexit.
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Debate Pack
The roll-out of Universal Credit
This House of Commons Library Debate Pack briefing provides information for the debate, entitled "Roll-out of Universal Credit" and sponsored by Catherine McKinnell, which will take place in Westminster Hall on Wednesday 19th April at 2.30pm, lasting for 90 minutes. A previous Westminster Hall debate on this topic led by Catherine McKinnell was interrupted by the attack on Parliament on 22 March
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Research Briefing
Millennials
Millennials are the generation of people now in their young adulthood. Roughly aged between 25 and 34. Millennials make up 13.9% of the total UK population.
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Research Briefing
The two child limit in tax credits and Universal Credit
This Commons Library briefing looks at the two child limit in Child Tax Credit and in Universal Credit introduced for new claims and births from 6 April 2017. There are limited exceptions to the two child rule, including where a child was conceived as a result of a "non-consensual sexual act."
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Research Briefing
Legislating for Brexit: EU directives
What are EU directives and what will happen to them when the UK leaves the EU? This paper looks at EU directives in force and how they are implemented in the UK. This will give some idea of the task ahead for UK legislators.
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Debate Pack
Changes to Personal Independence Payment regulations
On Wednesday 29 March, there will be an emergency debate on changes to Personal Independence Payment regulations in the House of Commons Chamber, following an application by Debbie Abrahams MP.
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Research Briefing
Statistics on Migrants and Benefits
Data on migrants and benefits is incomplete and fragmented, not routinely available from a single source. This is because the nationality of benefit claimants is not routinely gathered by either DWP or HMRC when administering benefits or tax credits. This paper brings together the main available data sources – including DWP data on National Insurance Number registrations, departmental ad-hoc releases and responses to Freedom of Information requests – to analyse rates of benefit and tax credits receipt among migrants living in the UK.
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Debate Pack
The roll-out of Universal Credit
There will be a debate in Westminster Hall on the roll-out of Universal Credit on 22 March 2017 at 2:30. The debate will be led by Catherine McKinnell MP.
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Research Briefing
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) pensions
Looks at current proposals to reform NDA pensions
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