Welfare Reform Act 2012
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (2012 c. 5)
- Welfare Reform Act 2012 (2012 c. 5)
- Part 1 Universal credit
- CHAPTER 1 Entitlement and awards
- Introductory
- 1 Universal credit
- 2 Claims
- Entitlement
- 3 Entitlement
- 4 Basic conditions
- 5 Financial conditions
- 6 Restrictions on entitlement
- Awards
- 7 Basis of awards
- 8 Calculation of awards
- Elements of an award
- 9 Standard allowance
- 10 Responsibility for children and young persons
- 11 Housing costs
- 12 Other particular needs or circumstances
- CHAPTER 2 Claimant responsibilities
- Introductory
- 13 Work-related requirements: introductory
- 14 Claimant commitment
- Work-related requirements
- 15 Work-focused interview requirement
- 16 Work preparation requirement
- 17 Work search requirement
- 18 Work availability requirement
- Application of work-related requirements
- 19 Claimants subject to no work-related requirements
- 20 Claimants subject to work-focused interview requirement only
- 21 Claimants subject to work preparation requirement
- 22 Claimants subject to all work-related requirements
- Work-related requirements: supplementary
- 23 Connected requirements
- 24 Imposition of requirements
- 25 Compliance with requirements
- Reduction of benefit
- 26 Higher-level sanctions
- 27 Other sanctions
- 28 Hardship payments
- Administration
- 29 Delegation and contracting out
- CHAPTER 3 Supplementary and general
- Supplementary and consequential
- 30 Supplementary regulation-making powers
- 31 Supplementary and consequential amendments
- 32 Power to make supplementary and consequential provision etc
- Universal credit and other benefits
- 33 Abolition of benefits
- 34 Universal credit and state pension credit
- 35 Universal credit and working-age benefits
- 36 Migration to universal credit
- General
- 37 Capability for work or work-related activity
- 38 Information
- 39 Couples
- 40 Interpretation of Part 1
- Regulations
- 41 Pilot schemes
- 42 Regulations: general
- 43 Regulations: procedure
- Part 2 Working-age benefits
- CHAPTER 1 Jobseeker's allowance
- Claimant responsibilities for interim period
- 44 Claimant commitment for jobseeker's allowance
- 45 Interviews
- 46 Sanctions
- 47 Procedure for regulation-making powers
- 48 Consequential amendments
- Claimant responsibilities after introduction of universal credit
- 49 Claimant responsibilities for jobseeker's allowance
- CHAPTER 2 Employment and support allowance
- Conditions of entitlement
- 50 Dual entitlement
- 51 Period of entitlement to contributory allowance
- 52 Further entitlement after time-limiting
- 53 Condition relating to youth
- Claimant responsibilities for interim period
- 54 Claimant commitment for employment and support allowance
- 55 Work experience etc
- 56 Hardship payments
- Claimant responsibilities after introduction of universal credit
- 57 Claimant responsibilities for employment and support allowance
- CHAPTER 3 Income support
- 58 Entitlement of lone parents to income support etc
- 59 Claimant commitment for income support
- CHAPTER 4 Miscellaneous
- Claimants dependent on drugs etc
- 60 Claimants dependent on drugs etc
- Entitlement to work
- 61 Entitlement to work: jobseeker's allowance
- 62 Entitlement to work: employment and support allowance
- 63 Entitlement to work: maternity allowance and statutory payments
- Part 3 Other benefit changes
- Industrial injuries benefit
- 64 Injuries arising before 5 July 1948
- 65 Persons under 18
- 66 Trainees
- 67 Restriction on new claims for industrial death benefit
- 68 Determinations
- Housing benefit
- 69 Housing benefit: determination of appropriate maximum
- Social fund
- 70 Ending of discretionary payments
- 71 Purposes of discretionary payments
- 72 Determination of amount or value of budgeting loan
- 73 External provider social loans and community care grants
- State pension credit
- 74 State pension credit: carers
- 75 State pension credit: capital limit
- Working tax credit
- 76 Calculation of working tax credit
- Part 4 Personal independence payment
- Personal independence payment
- 77 Personal independence payment
- 78 Daily living component
- 79 Mobility component
- 80 Ability to carry out daily living activities or mobility activities
- 81 Required period condition: further provision
- Entitlement and payability: further provision
- 82 Terminal illness
- 83 Persons of pensionable age
- 84 No entitlement to daily living component where UK is not competent state
- 85 Care home residents
- 86 Hospital in-patients
- 87 Prisoners and detainees
- Supplementary
- 88 Claims, awards and information
- 89 Report to Parliament
- General
- 90 Abolition of disability living allowance
- 91 Amendments
- 92 Power to make supplementary and consequential provision
- 93 Transitional
- 94 Regulations
- 95 Interpretation of Part 4
- Part 5 Social security: general
- Benefit cap
- 96 Benefit cap
- 96A Benefit cap: review
- 97 Benefit cap: supplementary
- Claims and awards
- 98 Claims and awards
- 99 Powers to require information relating to claims and awards
- Payments
- 100 Payments to joint claimants
- 101 Payments on account
- Appeals
- 102 Power to require consideration of revision before appeal
- 103 Supersession of decisions of former appellate bodies
- Electronic communications
- 104 Electronic communications
- Recovery of benefits
- 105 Recovery of benefit payments
- 106 Deduction from earnings: other cases
- 107 Recovery of child benefit and guardian's allowance
- 108 Application of Limitation Act 1980
- Recovery of fines from benefit
- 109 Recovery of fines etc by deductions from employment and support allowance
- Investigation and prosecution of offences
- 110 Powers to require information relating to investigations
- 111 Time limits for legal proceedings
- 112 Prosecution powers of local authorities
- Penalties as alternative to prosecution
- 113 Penalty in respect of benefit fraud not resulting in overpayment
- 114 Amount of penalty
- 115 Period for withdrawal of agreement to pay penalty
- Civil penalties
- 116 Civil penalties for incorrect statements and failures to disclose information
- Loss of benefit
- 117 Benefit offences: disqualifying and sanctionable benefits
- 118 Benefit offences: period of sanction
- 119 Benefit offences: sanctions for repeated benefit fraud
- 120 Loss of tax credits
- 121 Cautions
- Administration of tax credits
- 122 Tax credit fraud: investigation
- 123 Information-sharing for prevention etc of tax credit fraud
- 124 Tax credit fraud: prosecution and penalties
- 125 Unauthorised disclosure of information relating to tax credit offences
- 126 Tax credits: transfer of functions etc
- Information-sharing: Secretary of State and HMRC
- 127 Information-sharing between Secretary of State and HMRC
- Information-sharing: Secretary of State and DPP
- 128 Information-sharing between Secretary of State and DPP
- 129 Unlawful disclosure of information supplied under section 128
- Information-sharing involving local authorities etc
- 130 Information-sharing in relation to provision of overnight care etc
- 131 Information-sharing in relation to welfare services etc
- 132 Unlawful disclosure of information supplied under section 131
- 133 Sections 130 to 132: supplementary
- Information-sharing: miscellaneous
- 134 Information-sharing for social security or employment purposes etc
- Part 6 Miscellaneous
- Tell Us Once
- 135 Functions of registration service
- Child support maintenance
- 136 Supporting maintenance agreements
- 137 Collection of child support maintenance
- 138 Indicative maintenance calculations
- 139 Recovery of child support maintenance by deduction from benefit
- 140 Fees
- 141 Review of fees regulations
- 142 Exclusion from individual voluntary arrangements
- Reports on decision-making
- 143 Standards of decision-making
- Employment and training
- 144 Use of jobcentres by sex industry
- Child poverty
- 145 Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission
- 146 UK child poverty strategies
- Part 7 Final
- 147 Repeals
- 148 Financial provision
- 149 Extent
- 150 Commencement
- 151 Short title
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Universal credit: supplementary regulation-making powers
- Entitlement of joint claimants
- Linking periods
- Couples
- Calculation of capital and income
- Responsibility for children etc
- Vouchers
- Work-related requirements
- Good reason
- SCHEDULE 2 Universal credit: amendments
- Children Act 1989 (c. 41)
- Child Support Act 1991 (c. 48)
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
- Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14)
- Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18)
- Housing Act 1996 (c. 52)
- Education Act 1996 (c. 56)
- Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997 (c. 27)
- Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14)
- Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33)
- Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19)
- Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (c. 11)
- State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16)
- Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5)
- SCHEDULE 3 Abolition of benefits: consequential amendments
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4)
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
- Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33)
- Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19)
- Capital Allowances Act 2001 (c. 2)
- Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (c. 11)
- Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11)
- Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5)
- Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4)
- SCHEDULE 4 Housing credit element of state pension credit
- Part 1 Amendments to State Pension Credit Act 2002
- State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16)
- Part 2 Amendments to other Acts
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
- Housing Act 1996 (c. 52)
- Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19)
- SCHEDULE 5 Universal credit and other working-age benefits
- General
- Dual entitlement
- Movement between working-age benefits
- Hardship payments
- Earnings tapers
- SCHEDULE 6 Migration to universal credit
- General
- Claims before the appointed day
- Claims after the appointed day
- Awards
- Work-related requirements and sanctions
- Tax credits
- Supplementary
- SCHEDULE 7 Jobseeker's allowance in interim period: consequential amendments
- Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18)
- Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14)
- Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (c. 11)
- Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24)
- SCHEDULE 8 Social fund discretionary payments: consequential amendments
- SCHEDULE 9 Personal independence payment: amendments
- Transport Act 1982 (c. 49)
- Child Support Act 1991 (c. 48)
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4)
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
- Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997 (c. 27)
- Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14)
- Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33)
- Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (c. 11)
- Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1)
- SCHEDULE 10 Personal independence payment: transitional
- General
- Claims before the appointed day
- Claims after the appointed day
- Awards
- Supplementary
- SCHEDULE 11 Power to require consideration of revision before appeal
- Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 (c. 17)
- Child Support Act 1991 (c. 48)
- Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997 (c. 27)
- Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19)
- Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6)
- SCHEDULE 12 Supersession of decisions of former appellate bodies
- Child Support Act 1991 (c. 48)
- Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14)
- Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19)
- SCHEDULE 13 Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission
- Part 1 Establishment of Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission
- Part 2 Supplementary amendments to Child Poverty Act 2010
- Part 3 Supplementary amendments to other Acts
- SCHEDULE 14 Repeals
- Part 1 Abolition of benefits superseded by universal credit
- Part 2 Entitlement to jobseeker's allowance without seeking employment
- Part 3 Jobseeker's allowance: responsibilities for interim period
- Part 4 Jobseeker's allowance: responsibilities after introduction of universal credit
- Part 5 Employment and support allowance: responsibilities after introduction of universal credit
- Part 6 Claimants dependent on drugs etc
- Part 7 Industrial injuries arising before 5 July 1948
- Part 8 Social fund: ending of discretionary payments
- Part 9 Disability living allowance
- Part 10 Powers to require information relating to claims and awards
- Part 11 Recovery of benefit payments
- Part 12 Loss of benefit: cautions
- Part 13 Information-sharing between Secretary of State and HMRC
- Part 14 Standards of decision-making
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