Tuesday 30 October 2012

Universal Credit: without urgent changes the Government risks undermining it.s own reforms

via JRF - Combined Feed by Tony Wilson

The government’s arguments for welfare reform are well rehearsed.

There is a fiscal case but also an economic and social one: too many people are only marginally better off in work, while the design of the system has trapped people in poverty and worklessness.

Universal Credit, we are told, will fix these economic and social problems.

However research published today [30 October 2012], supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, tells us that without urgent changes the Government risks undermining its own reforms.

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