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Welfare Reform Act
Welfare Reform Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom relating to social security benefits. The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known as a Welfare Reform Bill during its passage through Parliament. List United Kingdom *The Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 *The Welfare Reform Act 2007 *The Welfare Reform Act 2009 *The Welfare Reform Act 2012 Northern Ireland *The Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 *The Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 United States The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act is sometimes referred to as the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 See also :List of short titles This is a list of stock short titles that are used for legislation in one or more of the countries where short titles are used. It is also a list of articles that list or discuss legislation by short title or subject. * Act of Uniformity * Adminis ... {{UK legislation Lists of legislation by short title Law of th ...
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In certain jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and other Westminster-influenced jurisdictions (such as Canada or Australia), as well as the United States and the Philippines, primary legislation has both a short title and a long title. The long title (properly, the title in some jurisdictions) is the formal title appearing at the head of a statute (such as an act of Parliament or of Congress) or other legislative instrument. The long title is intended to provide a summarised description of the purpose or scope of the instrument. Like other descriptive components of an act (such as the preamble, section headings, side notes, and short title), the long title seldom affects the operative provisions of an act, except where the operative provisions are unclear or ambiguous and the long title provides a clear statement of the legislature's intention. The short title is the formal name by which legislation may by law be cited. It contrasts with the long title which, while usuall ...
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many List of islands of the United Kingdom, smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between ...
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Welfare Reform And Pensions Act 1999
Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter. Social security may either be synonymous with welfare, or refer specifically to social insurance programs which provide support only to those who have previously contributed (e.g. most pension systems), as opposed to ''social assistance'' programs which provide support on the basis of need alone (e.g. most disability benefits). The International Labour Organization defines social security as covering support for those in old age, support for the maintenance of children, medical treatment, parental and sick leave, unemployment and disability benefits, and support for sufferers of occupational injury. More broadly, welfare may also encompass efforts to provide a basic level of well-being through free or subsidized ''social services'' such as healthcare, education, infrastructure, vocational training, and publ ...
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Welfare Reform Act 2007
The Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c.5) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which alters the British social security system. A number of sections come into force two months after royal assent and the first commencement order made under the Act specified that section 31 came into force on 1 November 2007. The green paper The green paper is available as a .pdf document from the links at the end of the article. The Government's objectives for the Act, as stated in the green paper were to: *Reach 80% employment amongst all people of working age (it was just shy of 75% when the paper was released). *To reduce the numbers claiming incapacity benefit by 1 million (from 2.7 million at the time). This was later stated to be achieved "within a decade" Hutton, Parliamentary debate on Green Paper. *To help 300,000 lone parents back into work. *To increase the number of older workers, aged fifty or over, in work by 1 million. Provisions, aims and criticisms of the Act The Act is ...
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Welfare Reform Act 2009
The Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It reforms the law relating to social security benefits. See also *Welfare Reform Act References *Halsbury's Statutes ''Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales'' (commonly referred to as ''Halsbury's Statutes'') provides updated texts of every Public General Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Measure of the Welsh Assembly, or Church of England Measur ..., United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 2009 Social security in the United Kingdom {{UK-statute-stub ...
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Welfare Reform Act 2012
The Welfare Reform Act 2012 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which makes changes to the rules concerning a number of benefits offered within the British social security system. It was enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 8 March 2012. Among the provisions of the Act are changes to housing benefit which came into force on 1 April 2013. These changes include an " under-occupancy penalty" which reduces the amount of benefit paid to claimants in social housing if they are deemed to have too much living space in the property they are renting.(This already applied to tenants in private rental accommodation). Although the Act does not introduce any new direct taxes, this ''penalty'' has been characterised by the Labour Party and some in the media as the "Bedroom Tax", attempting to link it with the public debate about the "Poll Tax" in the 1990s. Advocating the Act, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (George Osborne) stated that the changes would reduce welf ...
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Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007
Welfare Reform Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom relating to social security benefits. The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known as a Welfare Reform Bill during its passage through Parliament. List United Kingdom *The Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 *The Welfare Reform Act 2007 *The Welfare Reform Act 2009 *The Welfare Reform Act 2012 Northern Ireland *The Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 *The Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 United States The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act is sometimes referred to as the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 See also :List of short titles This is a list of stock short titles that are used for legislation in one or more of the countries where short titles are used. It is also a list of articles that list or discuss legislation by short title or subject. *Act of Uniformity (disambigu ... {{UK legislation Lists of legislation by short title Law of the Uni ...
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Personal Responsibility And Work Opportunity Act
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) is a United States federal law passed by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The bill implemented major changes to U.S. social welfare policy, replacing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The law was a cornerstone of the Republican Party's "Contract with America", and also fulfilled Clinton's campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it". AFDC had come under increasing criticism in the 1980s, especially from conservatives who argued that welfare recipients were "trapped in a cycle of poverty". After the 1994 elections, the Republican-controlled Congress passed two major bills designed to reform welfare, but they were vetoed by Clinton. After negotiations between Clinton and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Congress passed PRWORA, and Clinton signed the bi ...
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Welfare Reform Act Of 1996
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) is a United States federal law passed by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The bill implemented major changes to U.S. social welfare policy, replacing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The law was a cornerstone of the Republican Party's "Contract with America", and also fulfilled Clinton's campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it". AFDC had come under increasing criticism in the 1980s, especially from conservatives who argued that welfare recipients were "trapped in a cycle of poverty". After the 1994 elections, the Republican-controlled Congress passed two major bills designed to reform welfare, but they were vetoed by Clinton. After negotiations between Clinton and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Congress passed PRWORA, and Clinton signed the bill ...
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List Of Short Titles
This is a list of stock short titles that are used for legislation in one or more of the countries where short titles are used. It is also a list of articles that list or discuss legislation by short title or subject. * Act of Uniformity * Administration of Justice Act *Agricultural Holdings Act * Appellate Jurisdiction Act * Appropriation Act * Armed Forces Act * Atomic Energy Act * Atomic Energy Authority Act *Bank of England Act * Bank Notes Act *Bankruptcy Act *Beerhouse Act *Births and Deaths Registration Act *Bridges Act *British Museum Act * British Nationality Act *British North America Act * British Subjects Act * Broadcasting Act * Building Societies Act * Burial Act * Children Act * Church Building Act * Coinage Act * Coinage Offences Act * Commons Act * Communications Act * Companies Act * Consolidated Fund Act *Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act * Copyright Act *Coroners Act * County Courts Act * Court of Session Act * Crimes Act * Criminal Justice Act *Criminal Law Act ...
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Lists Of Legislation By Short Title
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing ( ...
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