Welfare Reform Act 2012
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 14 — Claimant commitment
Claimant commitment 14 1 A claimant commitment is a record of a claimant's responsibilities in relation to an award of universal credit. 2 A claimant commitment is to be prepared by the Secretary of…
Section 14AA
14AA For any purpose of this Act regulations may provide for— a circumstances in which a person is to be treated as having or not having a good reason for an act or omission; b matters which are or…
Section 15 — Work-focused interview requirement
Work-focused interview requirement 15 1 In this Part a “work-focused interview requirement” is a requirement that a claimant participate in one or more work-focused interviews as specified by the…
Section 16 — Work preparation requirement
Work preparation requirement 16 1 In this Part a “work preparation requirement” is a requirement that a claimant take particular action specified by the Secretary of State for the purpose of making…
Section 16A — Hardship payments
Hardship payments 16A 1 Regulations may make provision for the making of payments (“hardship payments”) by way of an employment and support allowance to a person where— a the amount otherwise payable…
Section 17 — Work search requirement
Work search requirement 17 1 In this Part a “work search requirement” is a requirement that a claimant take— a all reasonable action, and b any particular action specified by the Secretary of State,…
Section 18 — Work availability requirement
Work availability requirement 18 1 In this Part a “work availability requirement” is a requirement that a claimant be available for work. 2 For the purposes of this section “ available for work ”…
Section 19 — Claimants subject to no work-related requirements
Claimants subject to no work-related requirements 19 1 The Secretary of State may not impose any work-related requirement on a claimant falling within this section. 2 A claimant falls within this…
Section 19A — Other sanctions
Other sanctions 19A 1 The amount of an award of a jobseeker's allowance is to be reduced in accordance with this section in the event of a failure by the claimant which is sanctionable under this…
Section 19B — Claimants ceasing to be available for employment etc
Claimants ceasing to be available for employment etc 19B 1 Regulations may make provision for reduction of the amount of an award of a jobseeker's allowance other than a joint-claim jobseeker's…
Section 19C — Hardship payments
Hardship payments 19C 1 Regulations may make provision for the making of payments (“hardship payments”) by way of a jobseeker's allowance to a claimant where— a the amount of the claimant's award is…
Section 20 — Claimants subject to work-focused interview requirement only
Claimants subject to work-focused interview requirement only 20 1 A claimant falls within this section if— a the claimant is the responsible carer for a child who is aged 1 , or b the claimant is of…
Section 21 — Claimants subject to work preparation requirement
Claimants subject to work preparation requirement 21 1 A claimant falls within this section if the claimant does not fall within section 19 or 20 and— a the claimant has limited capability for work,…
Section 22 — Claimants subject to all work-related requirements
Claimants subject to all work-related requirements 22 1 A claimant not falling within any of sections 19 to 21 falls within this section. 2 The Secretary of State must, except in prescribed…
Section 23 — Connected requirements
Connected requirements 23 1 The Secretary of State may require a claimant to participate in an interview for any purpose relating to— a the imposition of a work-related requirement on the claimant; b…
Section 24 — Imposition of requirements
Imposition of requirements 24 1 Regulations may make provision— a where the Secretary of State may impose a requirement under this Part, as to when the requirement must or must not be imposed; b…
Section 25 — Compliance with requirements
Compliance with requirements 25 Regulations may make provision as to circumstances in which a claimant is to be treated as having— a complied with or not complied with any requirement imposed under…
Section 26 — Higher-level sanctions
Higher-level sanctions 26 1 The amount of an award of universal credit is to be reduced in accordance with this section in the event of a failure by a claimant which is sanctionable under this…
Section 27 — Other sanctions
Other sanctions 27 1 The amount of an award of universal credit is to be reduced in accordance with this section in the event of a failure by a claimant which is sanctionable under this section. 2 It…
Section 28 — Hardship payments
Hardship payments 28 1 Regulations may make provision for the making of additional payments by way of universal credit to a claimant (“hardship payments”) where— a the amount of the claimant's award…
Section 29 — Delegation and contracting out
Delegation and contracting out 29 1 The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 13 to 25 may be exercised by, or by the employees of, such person as the Secretary of State may authorise…
Section 30 — Supplementary regulation-making powers
Supplementary regulation-making powers 30 Schedule 1 contains supplementary regulation-making powers.
Section 31 — Supplementary and consequential amendments
Supplementary and consequential amendments 31 Schedule 2 contains supplementary and consequential amendments.
Section 32 — Power to make supplementary and consequential provision etc
Power to make supplementary and consequential provision etc 32 1 The appropriate authority may by regulations make such consequential, supplementary, incidental or transitional provision in relation…
Section 33 — Abolition of benefits
Abolition of benefits 33 1 The following benefits are abolished— a income-based jobseeker's allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995; b income-related employment and support allowance under Part 1 of…
Section 34 — Universal credit and state pension credit
Universal credit and state pension credit 34 Schedule 4 provides for a housing element of state pension credit in consequence of the abolition of housing benefit by section 33.
Section 35 — Universal credit and working-age benefits
Universal credit and working-age benefits 35 Schedule 5 makes further provision relating to universal credit, jobseeker's allowance and employment and support allowance.
Section 36 — Migration to universal credit
Migration to universal credit 36 Schedule 6 contains provision about the replacement of benefits by universal credit.
Section 36A — Loss of working tax credit in case of conviction etc for benefit offence
Loss of working tax credit in case of conviction etc for benefit offence 36A 1 Subsection (4) applies where a person (“the offender”)— a is convicted of one or more benefit offences in any…
Section 36B — Section 36A: supplementary
Section 36A: supplementary 36B 1 Where— a the conviction of any person of any offence is taken in account for the purposes of the application of section 36A in relation to that person, and b that…
Section 36C — Loss of working tax credit for repeated benefit fraud
Loss of working tax credit for repeated benefit fraud 36C 1 If— a a person (“the offender”) is convicted of one or more benefit offences in a set of proceedings (“the current set of proceedings”), b…
Section 36D — Section 36C: supplementary
Section 36C: supplementary 36D 1 Where— a the conviction of any person of any offence is taken into account for the purposes of the application of section 36C in relation to that person, and b that…
Section 37 — Capability for work or work-related activity
Capability for work or work-related activity 37 1 For the purposes of this Part a claimant has limited capability for work if— a the claimant's capability for work is limited by their physical or…
Section 38 — Information
Information 38 Information supplied under Chapter 2 of this Part or section 37 is to be taken for all purposes to be information relating to social security.
Section 39 — Couples
Couples 39 1 In this Part “couple” means— a two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and are members of the same household; or b two people who are not married to, or civil…
Section 40 — Interpretation of Part 1
Interpretation of Part 1 40 In this Part— “ assessment period ” has the meaning given by section 7(2); “ child ” means a person under the age of 16; “ claim ” means claim for universal credit; “…
Section 41 — Pilot schemes
Pilot schemes 41 1 Any power to make— a regulations under this Part, b regulations under the Social Security Administration Act 1992 relating to universal credit, or c regulations under the Social…
Section 42 — Regulations: general
Regulations: general 42 1 Regulations under this Part are to be made by the Secretary of State, unless otherwise provided. 2 A power to make regulations under this Part may be exercised— a so as to…
Section 43 — Regulations: procedure
Regulations: procedure 43 1 Regulations under this Part are to be made by statutory instrument. 2 A statutory instrument containing regulations made by the Secretary of State under this Part is…
Section 44 — Claimant commitment for jobseeker's allowance
Claimant commitment for jobseeker's allowance 44 1 The Jobseekers Act 1995 is amended as follows. 2 In section 1 (the jobseeker's allowance), in subsection (2)(b) for “entered into a jobseeker's…
Section 45 — Interviews
Interviews 45 In section 8 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (attendance, information and evidence), in subsections (1)(a) and (1A)(a) for “attend at such place and at such time” there is substituted “…
Section 46 — Sanctions
Sanctions 46 1 For section 19 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (circumstances in which a jobseeker's allowance is not payable) there is substituted— Higher-level sanctions 19 1 The amount of an award of a…
Section 47 — Procedure for regulation-making powers
Procedure for regulation-making powers 47 In section 37 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (parliamentary control), in subsection (1)(c) (regulations subject to affirmative procedure), “6, 7,” is repealed.
Section 48 — Consequential amendments
Consequential amendments 48 Schedule 7 contains consequential amendments relating to sections 44 to 46.
Section 49 — Claimant responsibilities for jobseeker's allowance
Claimant responsibilities for jobseeker's allowance 49 1 The Jobseekers Act 1995 is amended as follows. 2 In section 1(2) (conditions of entitlement), paragraphs (a) and (c) are repealed. 3 For…
Section 50 — Dual entitlement
Dual entitlement 50 1 In section 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (employment and support allowance), after subsection (6) there is inserted— 6A In subsection (3)(f), in relation to a contributory…
Section 51 — Period of entitlement to contributory allowance
Period of entitlement to contributory allowance 51 1 After section 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 there is inserted— Duration of contributory allowance 1A 1 The period for which a person is…
Section 52 — Further entitlement after time-limiting
Further entitlement after time-limiting 52 1 After section 1A of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (as inserted by section 51 above) there is inserted— Further entitlement after time-limiting 1B 1 Where a…
Section 53 — Condition relating to youth
Condition relating to youth 53 In section 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (employment and support allowance), after subsection (3) there is inserted— 3A After the coming into force of this…
Section 54 — Claimant commitment for employment and support allowance
Claimant commitment for employment and support allowance 54 1 The Welfare Reform Act 2007 is amended as follows. 2 In section 1(3) (employment and support allowance: basic conditions) after paragraph…