Shared Parental Leave. The BIS budget has been cut by 6%.
The Department for Work and Pensions will have to make savings of 9.5% in its running costs. The Chancellor also announced three welfare reforms:
o A cap on the country's welfare budget each year for the next four years from April 2015 - but the state pension will not be included.
o From the autumn of 2015, the winter fuel payment will be linked to a temperature test. It will not be paid out to expats in hot countries.
o On welfare payments, Osborne says that job seekers will have to come to the job centre once a week rather than once a fortnight.
The government is also introducing Upfront Work Search, under which job seekers will only get their benefits once they have provided a CV, registered with an online job search and started looking for work.
We will of course keep you informed as we learn more about the specific impacts of each of these measures.
Child Maintenance Reform
CHILD MAINTENANCE REFORM – INITIAL GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION RESPONSE
22 May 2013
In July 2012 the government published a consultation document on draft child support fees and the transition to new calculation rules. The government has now issued a statement in response to that consultation, summarising the changes the government intends to make. A full response will be published later this year.
CHILD MAINTENANCE SCHEME ROLLOUT PROGRESSES
31 July 2013
The Chid Maintenance Service has progressed to the next stage of the 2012 Statutory Child Maintenance scheme.
The 2012 scheme opened in December 2012 using a pathfinder approach in which the Child Maintenance Service only accepted new applications from people with four or more children, where the children are from the same two parents. This approach has allowed the systems to be tested with a limited number of applicants and made it easier to address any issues. The government is happy with progress so far and the 2012 scheme is now open to new applications from people with two or more children, where the children are from the same two parents.
See page 19 of CIPP Policy News Journal 2012-2013 for previous news
New ‘business banking’ service for child maintenance to benefit 40,000 employers
CIPP Policy News Journal
16/04/2014, Page 53 of 519
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