Welfare Reform Act 2007 Explanatory Notes

Act Overview

44.The Act is formed of 5 parts:

(1)

Employment and support allowance.

  • Entitlement

  • Assessments relating to entitlement

  • Conditionality

  • Miscellaneous

  • General

(2)

Housing benefit and council tax benefit.

(3)

Social security administration: general.

  • Sharing of social security information

  • Overpayment recovery

  • Benefit fraud

(4)

Miscellaneous.

  • Benefits for bereaved persons

  • Disability living allowance: age conditions

  • Social fund

  • Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979

  • Compensation for pneumoconiosis etc.

  • Other

(5)

General, e.g. commencement.

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