Benefits for Those Unemployed Due to Illness or Disability
The amount of welfare benefits paid to those unemployed due to disability or illness has been the subject of a number of votes in Parliament.
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Maria Eagle almost always voted for paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability
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On 7 Chw 2022:
Maria Eagle was absent for a vote on draft Social Security Up-rating Order 2022
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On 2 Maw 2016:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to make the removal of the work-related activity component from employment and support allowance conditional on an impact assessment and to require Parliament to approve details of implementing the change.
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On 2 Maw 2016:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to make the removal of the limited capability for work element of universal credit conditional on an impact assessment and to require Parliament to approve details of implementing the change.
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On 27 Hyd 2015:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to retain the "work-related activity component" in the Employment and Support Allowance.
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On 27 Hyd 2015:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to retain the "limited capability for work" element of Universal Credit.
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On 27 Hyd 2015:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against reducing the household benefit cap, against freezing the rate of many working-age benefits, against reducing social rents in England and against other changes to the benefits system.
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On 20 Gor 2015:
Maria Eagle was absent for a vote on Welfare Reform and Work Bill — Second Reading
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On 1 Chw 2012:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio for those who have been ill or disabled since their youth to receive Employment and Support Allowance on the same basis as if they had made sufficient National Insurance contributions to qualify for a contribution based allowance.
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On 1 Chw 2012:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to increase the time people can receive contribution based ESA from one year to at least 730 days.
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On 1 Chw 2012:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to allow those with a cancer diagnosis or undergoing cancer treatment to continue to receive contribution based Employment and Support Allowance after the usual 365 day limit is reached.
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On 1 Chw 2012:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to set the lower rate of the Universal Credit payment in relation to disabled children and young people at a minimum of two-thirds of the higher rate.
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On 15 Meh 2011:
Maria Eagle was absent for a vote on Welfare Reform Bill — Third Reading
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On 9 Maw 2011:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against introducing Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments and against restricting housing benefit for those in social housing deemed to have excess bedrooms.
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On 9 Maw 2011:
Maria Eagle was absent for a vote on Welfare Reform Bill — Second Reading
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On 18 Mai 2022:
Maria Eagle was absent for a vote on Programme for Government — Workers' Rights — Cost of Living — Climate — Benefits — Windfall Tax — Devolution — Human Rights
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On 24 Ion 2022:
Maria Eagle was absent for a vote on Cost of Living Increases — Income — Poverty — Universal Credit — Energy Payment — Child Payments
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On 21 Med 2021:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against rising prices, lower benefits, and higher taxes particularly for low and middle income workers.
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On 15 Med 2021:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio in favour of continuing paying an additional twenty pounds a week to those on Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit beyond April 2021; the additional sum had been introduced for one year in April 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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On 18 Ion 2021:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio in favour of continuing paying an additional twenty pounds a week to those on Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit beyond April 2021; the additional sum had been introduced for one year in April 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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On 20 Gor 2016:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio not to cut housing benefit for recipients in supported housing.
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On 8 Meh 2016:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against reductions in benefits for disabled and ill claimants required to participate in activities intended to increase their chances of obtaining work.
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