Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE

   1. Entitlement

      1. 1. Employment and support allowance

      2. 2. Amount of contributory allowance

      3. 3. Deductions from contributory allowance: supplementary

      4. 4. Amount of income-related allowance

      5. 5. Advance award of income-related allowance

      6. 6. Amount payable where claimant entitled to both forms of allowance

      7. 7. Exclusion of payments below prescribed minimum

   2. Assessments relating to entitlement

      1. 8. Limited capability for work

      2. 9. Limited capability for work-related activity

      3. 10. Report

   3. Conditionality

      1. 11. Work-focused health-related assessments

      2. 12. Work-focused interviews

      3. 13. Work-related activity

      4. 14. Action plans in connection with work-focused interviews

      5. 15. Directions about work-related activity

      6. 16. Contracting out

   4. Miscellaneous

      1. 17. Income and capital: general

      2. 18. Disqualification

      3. 19. Pilot schemes

      4. 20. Relationship with statutory payments

      5. 21. Deemed entitlement for other purposes

      6. 22. Supplementary provisions

      7. 23. Recovery of sums in respect of maintenance

   5. General

      1. 24. Interpretation, etc. of Part 1

      2. 25. Regulations

      3. 26. Assembly control

      4. 27. Financial provisions relating to Part 1

      5. 28. Consequential amendments relating to Part 1

      6. 29. Transition relating to Part 1

3. PART 2 HOUSING BENEFIT

   1. 30. Local housing allowance

   2. 31. Loss of housing benefit following eviction for anti-social behaviour, etc.

   3. 32. Housing benefit for persons taking up employment

   4. 33. Section 32: supplemental

   5. 34. Sections 32 and 33: interpretation

   6. 35. Payment of housing benefit

   7. 36. Directions by Department

   8. 37. Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 2

4. PART 3 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION: GENERAL

   1. Sharing of social security information

      1. 38. Social security information

      2. 39. Information relating to certain benefits

      3. 40. Unlawful disclosure of certain information

   2. Overpayment recovery

      1. 41. Recovery of overpaid benefit

   3. Benefit fraud

      1. 42. Housing Executive powers to investigate benefit fraud

      2. 43. Housing Executive powers to prosecute benefit fraud

      3. 44. Housing Executive functions relating to benefit: information

      4. 45. Loss of benefit for commission of benefit offences

5. PART 4 MISCELLANEOUS

   1. Benefits for bereaved persons

      1. 46. Widowed mother’s allowance

      2. 47. Widowed parent’s allowance

   2. Disability living allowance: age conditions

      1. 48. Care component of disability living allowance: persons under the age of 16

      2. 49. Mobility component of disability living allowance: persons under the age of 16

   3. Social fund

      1. 50. Matters to which regard must be had in awarding budgeting loans

      2. 51. Allocations from Social Fund

   4. Compensation for pneumoconiosis etc.

      1. 52. “Relevant employer”

      2. 53. “Dependant”

   5. Other

      1. 54. Power to stop payment of allowances to care home residents

      2. 55. Medical examinations

      3. 56. Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 4

6. PART 5 GENERAL

   1. 57. Interpretation

   2. 58. Repeals

   3. 59. Transition

   4. 60. Commencement

   5. 61. Short title

7. SCHEDULES:

   1. Schedule 1

      Employment and support allowance: additional conditions

      1. Part 1 Contributory allowance

      2. Part 2 Income-related allowance

   2. Schedule 2

      Employment and support allowance: supplementary provisions

   3. Schedule 3

      Consequential amendments relating to Part 1

   4. Schedule 4

      Transition relating to Part 1

   5. Schedule 5

      Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 2

   6. Schedule 6

      Schedule to be inserted in the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979

   7. Schedule 7

      Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 4

   8. Schedule 8

      Repeals