Sentences with phrase «new claimants»

The restrictions will see housing benefit payments for new claimants capped at a level no higher than the lowest 30 per cent of local rents.

# 1.5 bn to remove seven - day waiting period; new claimants in receipt of housing benefit will get it for two weeks.

The most expensive course would be only imposing the tax credit cuts on new claimants - but the authors note that it would have the «least social and political cost».

The first to be affected will be new claimants whose youngest child is over 12.

But it has also been agreed new claimants will start receiving in - work tax credits on a graduated basis.

But the changes, which were due to have been rolled out nationally for new claimants next month, were delayed following IT glitches and further testing is being carried out.

But how much difference will the announcements made yesterday really make for new claimants - and will it have any impact on those already in the system?

It was introduced in April 2013 for new claimants of Jobseekers Allowance in one Manchester area, was extended to other areas in the North West in July and has continued to be phased in since then with well - publicised delays.

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Because the cut is aimed at new claimants the figure will continue to soar, reaching # 1.3 billion in 2019/20 and # 1.28 billion in 2020/21.

However, Labour has pointed out that there will be much lower in - work benefit payments for new claimants put on universal credit — the system championed by the work and pensions secretary, Duncan Smith.

«Mandatory Acas involvement and new claimant fees will make the system fairer by ensuring that baseless claims are weeded out, and the pressure to settle is reduced,» he said.

Ministers have expanded the availability of hardship loans (now repayable over a year) to help new claimants while they wait for payment.

Existing claimants in homes where someone of working age also lives have been spared the welfare cut, but new claimants under the Universal Credit scheme will face deductions.

This was followed by the abolishment of ESA WRAG for new claimants in 2017, which I also voted against and fought.

George Osborne should consider «phasing in» planned tax credit cuts or only imposing them on new claimants, according to a think - tank founded by Cabinet colleague Iain Duncan Smith.

«Our change was only for new claimants - theirs hits people who have lived in their property for years and have got nowhere else to go.

They face the danger of turning the poor into a political abstraction necessary to provide moral warrants for the new claimants to the power of the state.

He said the figures showed that the vast majority of new claimants for sickness benefits were in fact able to return to work and pledged to focus attention on existing claimants as a result.

A small but significant number of repeat claimants had worked out that the way to stay on benefit was simply to apply for jobseekers allowance as a new claimant.

Under this, all new claimants had to be investigated, rather than just those who posed the greatest risk.

Harman's great crime has been to countenance a policy that two thirds of voters support limiting child tax credits to the first two children for new claimants.

The rollout of the so - called «full service» across the UK will start this month for all new claimants in jobcentres in Newcastle upon Tyne, Lowestoft, Rugby, Bath, and Bridgewater, and will take more than two years to complete.

A Labour government will introduce a Basic Skills Test to assess all new claimants for Job Seekers Allowance within six weeks of claiming benefits.

The latest Budget included a # 30 a week cut in disability benefits for some new claimants of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).

Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne told the Sunday People, which uncovered the different status of new claimants, that the prime Minister needed to «get a grip».

The cuts Mr Goldsmith voted for apply to new claimants in the «work - related activity group» (WRAG) track of ESA from April 2017.

David Cameron, speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, admitted the commitment to end EU migrants» access to in - work benefits for four years would not apply to existing claimants already in Britain and new claimants may receive some in - work benefits from day one of their arrival.

Instead, new claimants at six «hub job centres» in England, Wales and Scotland will receive the new benefit from October.

All new claimants were supposed to receive the universal credit from next month as part of a phased implementation plan but this has been delayed following a number of pilots earlier this year.

From October 2013 to April 2014 about half a million new claimants were due to receive universal credit instead of jobseeker's allowance, employment support allowance, income support, housing benefit, working tax credit and child tax credit.

It shows that a single parent to two who works full - time as a teacher and is a new claimant to universal credit will be nearly # 4,000 worse off in 2018 - 19.

Should he write directly to each new claimant or simply ignore them?

«I am hopeful that once a number of exemplary listings exist, new claimants will see how to redact personal information properly.

Where a new claimant application does not satisfy all of the conditions of the relevant part of the registration test in s190B of the NTA (conditions about the merits of the claim), the Federal Court must order that the claim be dismissed unless the court is satisfied that:

If you are a new claimant and you are parenting alone because of the death of your spouse, partner or civil partner you may get OFP for 2 years from the date of death provided your youngest child is under 18.