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This report explores the impacts of the benefit system on young people aged 16 to 24 who live independently of parents or other guardians.
This project was conducted as part of the Social Security Advisory Committee’s (SSAC) independent work programme, under which the committee investigates pertinent issues relating to the operation of the benefits system.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Telephony in the Department for Work and Pensions and its agencies: call costs and equality of customer access (June 2007).
Rights and Responsibilities in the Social Security System (July 2009).
A report on the Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 by SSAC.
Correspondence between SSAC and the Minister for Employment about social security restrictions on amounts for children and certain young people.
A report on Universal Credit regulations related to the transition to Universal Credit housing payments, and the government’s response.
This statement clarifies the role of the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) and its chair in the scrutiny of the proposals.
The government's responses to the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) report ‘Decision making and mandatory reconsideration'.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Correspondence between SSAC and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions about the Social Security, Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
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