Welfare Reform Bill

Page 3, line 35, leave out from “payable” to end of line 36 and insert “twice a month”

Page 36, line 34, leave out “365 days” and insert “a prescribed number of days which must be at least 730”

Page 37, line 22, at end insert—

“( ) Where a person has, within the previous 5 years of the date of the claim, ceased to be entitled to a contributory employment and support allowance by virtue of section 1A(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 and—

(a) has limited capability for work-related activity, and

(b) since he or she last ceased to be entitled to a contributory employment support allowance, has had limited capability for work for the purposes of Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act,

they shall be entitled to the contributory allowance.”

Leave out Clause 52 and insert the following new Clause—

“Condition relating to youth

For paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (condition relating to youth) substitute—

“(4) The third condition is that—

(a) the claimant has limited capability for work-related activity;

(b) he or she was under 20 when the relevant period of limited capability for work began; and

(c) he or she has had limited capability for work for at least 28 weeks.””