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Campaign on the Welfare Reform Bill

Welfare Reform Bill 2006   

The published Welfare Reform Bill’s aim is to push 10 million disabled people off benefits and into work by cohesive means through an introduction of benefit sanctions for the ‘work-shy’.   The Bill’s proposals include replacing incapacity benefits with employment and support allowances, roll out of a national Pathways to Work scheme to jell disabled people into work along with powers to issue benefit sanctions for those  ‘refusing’ to participate in work related interviews and activities.   The Personal capacity test which is the test to see if a disabled person qualifies for employment and support allowance with or without the requirement to activity prepare for paid work will also change over the next year or so.      

 UKDPC’s statement when the Government published the Welfare Reform Bill - NATIONAL ORGS PRESS RELEASE.doc

 Welfare Reform Bill as published on - Welfare reform bill 2006.pdf 

 UKDPC’s House of Commons Second Reading Briefing - Welfare reform hc 2^nd reading

 UKDPC’s House of Commons Amendments and Committee Briefings - Welfare Reform Bill HC Amendments

 UKDPC’s House of Commons Report Stage and Third Reading - Third reading HC Breifin.doc

 UKDPC’s House of Lords Second Reading Briefing

 Welfare Reform Bill published as amended on Welfare reform bill feb 2007.pdf   and Hol 2^nd reading brief.doc            

 UKDPC’s House of Lords amendments and committee and report stage and third reading briefings Hlamends.doc  

 Welfare Reform Act 2006 received Royal Ascent during July 2007 - Welfare Reform Act 2007.pdf    

Coalition Against the Welfare Reform Bill

These Coalition Against the Welfare Reform Bill Campaign  Newsletters with and without pictures have been published including statements and the on-going major campaign activities disabled people have undertaken to raise the issues around the Welfare Reform Bill.

 First newsletter without pictures
 Second newsletter without pictures
 Third newsletter without pictures
 Fourth newsletter without pictures
 Fifth newsletter with pictures | Fifth newsletter without pictures

Whilst UKDPC did not achieve any real changes to this law, the Joint House of Commons and House of Lords Scrutiny Committee on Human Rights concluded there was difficulty with establishing whether incompatibilities between the Human Rights Act and the Welfare Reform Act (which received Royal ascent in July) may arise as a result of insufficient or lack of information in the regulations being provided by the Department for Work and Pensions.     There is still much to do with a possible single benefit system reform which would replace all the existing benefit entitlements including those in the Welfare Reform Act.

Copies of the older newsletters with pictures are available on request

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