Explanatory Notes

Welfare Reform Act 2012

2012 CHAPTER 5

8 March 2012

Commentary on Sections

Part 2: Working-age benefits

Section 63: Entitlement to work: maternity allowance and statutory payments

324.Section 63 makes amendments to SSCBA 1992 to introduce a new condition of entitlement into statutory payments and maternity allowance, ensuring that a claimant must be entitled to be in employment in the United Kingdom.