In the Queen’s speech on 3 December 2008, it was mentioned

“A bill will be brought forward to reform the welfare system, to improve incentives for people to move from benefits into sustained employment and to provide greater support, choice and control for disabled people.”

Our response to the Government’s Welfare Reform Bill and White Paper

We support in principle the policy of helping the unemployed find work, which will lift them out of poverty and the introduction of a single organisation to be contacted by welfare applicants for all benefits; but the fully-evidenced inadequate levels of unemployment benefits and the failure of the national minimum wage to lift people out of poverty are ignore in the White Paper and in the Gregg and Freud reports, on which is is based. Continue reading →