The government has committed to introducing greater incentives for people to move from benefits into work.
The Welfare Reform Act will also provide more employment choices for people with disabilities.
The Act aims to better enable people to undertake training to help find employment and to strengthen the benefit contract between the individual and society.
Among its welfare proposals, the government intends to strengthen requirements of non-resident parents to contribute to their children’s upbringing and to modernise and simplify the benefits system.
Progress
House of Commons
First reading: January 14 2009 [HC Bill 8]
Second reading: January 27 2009
Welfare Reform Bill Committee
- 1st sitting: February 10 2009 (am)
- 2nd sitting: February 10 2009 (pm)
- 3rd sitting: February 12 2009
- 4th sitting: February 24 2009 (am)
- 5th sitting: February 24 2009 (pm)
- 6th sitting: February 26 2009 (am)
- 7th sitting: February 26 2009 (pm)
- 8th sitting: March 3 2009 (am)
- 9th sitting: March 3 2009 (pm)
Report stage: March 17 2009
Third reading: March 17 2009
House of Lords
First reading: March 18 2009 [HL Bill 32]
Second reading: April 29 2009
Committee stage:
- 1st sitting: June 9 2009
- 2nd sitting: June 11 2009
- 3rd sitting: June 15 2009
- 4th sitting: June 18 2009
- 5th sitting: June 22 2009
- 6th sitting: June 25 2009
- 7th sitting: June 30 2009
- 8th sitting: July 2 2009
- 9th sitting: July 7 2009
- Bill as amended in committee: [HL Bill 62]
Report stage:
- 1st day: October 22 2009
- 2nd day: October 27 2009
- Bill as amended on report: [HL Bill 75]
Third reading: November 3 2009
Consideration of Lords amendments: [HC Bill 159]
Consideration of Commons amendments: [HL Bill 81]
Royal Assent
Welfare Reform Act
