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16/09/2009
Tory Plan To Restructure Benefits
The Conservative Party has put forward its scheme to ensure that working is a better financial alternative to remaining on long-term state benefits.
Tory think tank, the Centre for Social Justice said it recognises some low-paid jobs make being in receipt of benefits more attractive.
MP Iain Duncan Smith, who heads up the centre, said the current system rewards the jobless more than if they were in employment.
Mr Duncan Smith has recommenced streamlining the number of benefits available and boosting financial support for those on lower working incomes.
He said the current system can be confusing, insisting the "work pays" ethos should be pushed harder.
According to the centre, anyone earning less than £15000 per year is worse off than those on benefits.
Subsidises should be available to the low paid, which would cost around £2.7bn annually.
Mr Duncan Smith said: "We believe that if you want to end child poverty, if you want to help people then you need to be able to help the worst off best, and you need to be able to help them do the most important thing in their lives - which is that we believe every household should have work."
Tory Leader David Cameron said they centre's report was interesting and that it would be studied further.
According to Mr Duncan Smith, the report's proposals would get 600,000 households into work if enacted.
Today the government published figures showing unemployment in the UK rose to 2.47m in the three months to July.
(PR/BMcC)
Tory think tank, the Centre for Social Justice said it recognises some low-paid jobs make being in receipt of benefits more attractive.
MP Iain Duncan Smith, who heads up the centre, said the current system rewards the jobless more than if they were in employment.
Mr Duncan Smith has recommenced streamlining the number of benefits available and boosting financial support for those on lower working incomes.
He said the current system can be confusing, insisting the "work pays" ethos should be pushed harder.
According to the centre, anyone earning less than £15000 per year is worse off than those on benefits.
Subsidises should be available to the low paid, which would cost around £2.7bn annually.
Mr Duncan Smith said: "We believe that if you want to end child poverty, if you want to help people then you need to be able to help the worst off best, and you need to be able to help them do the most important thing in their lives - which is that we believe every household should have work."
Tory Leader David Cameron said they centre's report was interesting and that it would be studied further.
According to Mr Duncan Smith, the report's proposals would get 600,000 households into work if enacted.
Today the government published figures showing unemployment in the UK rose to 2.47m in the three months to July.
(PR/BMcC)
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