Clause 2
Welfare Reform Bill
4:30 pm
Jimmy Hood (Lanark and Hamilton East, Labour)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 181, in clause 2, page 2, line 25, at end insert—
‘(1A) The total amount payable under subsection (1) above may not be less than the relevant rate or rates of benefit payable under paragraph 2A of Part 1 and paragraph 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 4 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 which would have been payable to the claimant on the day immediately before section 2 of this Act comes into effect had he made a claim for and otherwise been entitled to those amounts.’.
No. 182, in clause 2, page 2, line 35, at beginning insert ‘subject to subsection (1A)’.
No. 177, in clause 2, page 2, line 40, leave out paragraph (c).