Legislation – Welfare Reform Act 2012
Part 1
Universal credit
CHAPTER 1 Entitlement and awards
10 Responsibility for children and young persons
12 Other particular needs or circumstances
CHAPTER 2 Claimant responsibilities
13 Work-related requirements: introductory
15 Work-focused interview requirement
16 Work preparation 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
25 Compliance with requirements
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
34 Universal credit and state pension credit
35 Universal credit and working-age benefits
36 Migration to universal credit
37 Capability for work or work-related activity
Part 2
Working-age benefits
CHAPTER 1 Jobseeker’s allowance
Claimant responsibilities for interim period
44 Claimant commitment for jobseeker’s allowance
47 Procedure for regulation-making powers
Claimant responsibilities after introduction of universal credit
49 Claimant responsibilities for jobseeker’s allowance
CHAPTER 2 Employment and support allowance
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
Claimant responsibilities after introduction of universal credit
57 Claimant responsibilities for employment and support allowance
58 Entitlement of lone parents to income support etc
59 Claimant commitment for income support
Claimants dependent on drugs etc
60 Claimants dependent on drugs etc
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
64 Injuries arising before 5 July 1948
67 Restriction on new claims for industrial death benefit
69 Housing benefit: determination of appropriate maximum
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
74 State pension credit: carers
75 State pension credit: capital limit
76 Calculation of working tax credit
Part 4
Personal independence payment
77 Personal independence payment
80 Ability to carry out daily living activities or mobility activities
81 Required period condition: further provision
84 No entitlement to daily living component where UK is not competent state
88 Claims, awards and information
90 Abolition of disability living allowance
92 Power to make supplementary and consequential provision
Part 5
Social security: general
99 Powers to require information relating to claims and awards
100 Payments to joint claimants
102 Power to require consideration of revision before appeal
103 Supersession of decisions of former appellate bodies
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
109 Recovery of fines etc by deductions from employment and support allowance
110 Powers to require information relating to investigations
111 Time limits for legal proceedings
112 Prosecution powers of local authorities
113 Penalty in respect of benefit fraud not resulting in overpayment
115 Period for withdrawal of agreement to pay penalty
116 Civil penalties for incorrect statements and failures to disclose information
117 Benefit offences: disqualifying and sanctionable benefits
118 Benefit offences: period of sanction
119 Benefit offences: sanctions for repeated benefit fraud
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
127 Information-sharing between Secretary of State and HMRC
128 Information-sharing between Secretary of State and DPP
129 Unlawful disclosure of information supplied under section 128
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
134 Information-sharing for social security or employment purposes etc
Part 6
Miscellaneous
135 Functions of registration service
136 Supporting maintenance agreements
137 Collection of child support maintenance
138 Indicative maintenance calculations
139 Recovery of child support maintenance by deduction from benefit
141 Review of fees regulations
142 Exclusion from individual voluntary arrangements
143 Standards of decision-making
144 Use of jobcentres by sex industry
145 Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission
146 UK child poverty strategies
Part 7
Final
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Universal credit: supplementary regulation-making powers
SCHEDULE 2 Universal credit: amendments
SCHEDULE 3 Abolition of benefits: consequential amendments
SCHEDULE 4 Housing credit element of state pension credit
SCHEDULE 5 Universal credit and other working-age benefits
SCHEDULE 6 Migration to universal credit
SCHEDULE 7 Jobseeker’s allowance in interim period: consequential amendments
SCHEDULE 8 Social fund discretionary payments: consequential amendments
SCHEDULE 9 Personal independence payment: amendments
SCHEDULE 10 Personal independence payment: transitional
SCHEDULE 11 Power to require consideration of revision before appeal
SCHEDULE 12 Supersession of decisions of former appellate bodies
Part 2Working-age benefits
CHAPTER 1Jobseeker’s allowance
Claimant responsibilities for interim period
47Procedure for regulation-making powers
In section 37 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (parliamentary control), in subsection (1)(c) (regulations subject to affirmative procedure), “6, 7,” is repealed.