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Support for Housing Costs in the Reformed Welfare System - HC 720

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee,Anne Dame Begg

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Support for Housing Costs in the Reformed Welfare System - HC 720

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee,Anne Dame Begg

Reforms to the support provided for housing costs - including the Social Sector Size Criteria (SSSC) (also known as the "Bedroom Tax" and the "Spare Room Subsidy") and the household Benefit Cap are causing financial hardship to vulnerable people who were not the intended targets of the reforms and are unlikely to be able to change their circumstances in response. The SSSC is having a particular impact on people with disabilities who have adapted homes or need a room to hold medical equipment or to accommodate a carer. Anybody living in a home that has been significantly adapted for them should be exempt from the SSSC and all recipients of Carers Allowance where the carer lives with the disabled person should be exempt from the Benefit Cap. The Report further urges the Government to exempt all households that contain a person in receipt of higher level disability benefits (DLA or PIP) from the SSSC. Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are only temporary, and whether or not a claimant is awarded DHP is heavily dependent on where they live because different local authorities apply different eligibility rules. Local authorities often have no option other than to place homeless households in expensive temporary accommodation and claimants can then fall within the scope of the Benefit Cap. Local authorities then often have to pay the shortfall for those affected by the Cap so there is no overall saving to public funds. All households in temporary accommodation should therefore also be exempt from the Benefit Cap.

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Universal Credit Implementation: Monitoring DWP's Performance in 1012-13 - HC 1209

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee,Anne Dame Begg

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Universal Credit Implementation: Monitoring DWP's Performance in 1012-13 - HC 1209

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee,Anne Dame Begg

There remains worrying uncertainty about the new Universal Credit (UC) IT system. This includes how it will work, how much it will cost, and who will develop it. National roll-out of UC was due to begin in October 2013. But problems with IT systems meant that major changes to the implementation timetable were made in July and then again in December 2013. Currently, UC claims are still limited to 10 Pathfinder Jobcentres. New claims are not expected to be extended to the whole of Great Britain until 2016; and the bulk of existing claimants will not move over to UC until 2016-17. Only 4,280 people were claiming Universal Credit by December 2013 and the majority of these claims were of the simplest nature. By comparison, in the same month, 1.22 million people were claiming Jobseekers Allowance. The DWP is developing a new 'end-state solution' for UC IT which will eventually replace the IT system currently in use in the UC Pathfinders. This is costing £25-32 million to develop up to November 2014, with no indication of how much more it will cost in the long-term. The Government has hampered the Committee's scrutiny of UC implementation by not providing accurate, timely and detailed information. And there is a lack of detail on how support for vulnerable people being provided in partnership with local authorities, housing providers and the voluntary sector will operate. Delays to UC implementation mean that local authorities will now administer housing benefit for much longer than anticipated.

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0215070763

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The Myth of the Goddess

Evolution of an Image

By: Anne Baring,Jules Cashford

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The Myth of the Goddess

Evolution of an Image

By: Anne Baring,Jules Cashford

A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when, and how she was excluded from western culture, and the implications of this loss.

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0141941405

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Support for Housing Costs in the Reformed Welfare System - HC 720

Support for Housing Costs in the Reformed Welfare System - HC 720

Universal Credit Implementation: Monitoring DWP's Performance in 1012-13 - HC 1209

Universal Credit Implementation: Monitoring DWP's Performance in 1012-13 - HC 1209

The Myth of the Goddess

The Myth of the Goddess

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