Author : Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780101797122
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (971 download)
Book Synopsis Consultation responses to 21st century welfare by : Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Download or read book Consultation responses to 21st century welfare written by Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July of this year the Department published 21st Century welfare (Cm. 7913, ISBN 9780101791328), a consultative paper that laid out the problems of poor work incentives and complexity in the benefits and tax credits systems. One of the main proposals in the paper was for a universal credit, which would incorporate out-of-work benefits, in-work support and appropriate amounts for housing, disability and families for people of working age. The aim of the universal credit would be to ensure that anyone on benefits who starts work will better of than they would have been on benefits. This report outlines responses to the consultation on these proposals. The overall themes of responses were: agreement that fundamental reform was necessary and support of the basic tenets of the proposals; of the five options for reform suggested there was widespread agreement with the universal credit proposal; overwhelming support for simplifying and streamlining both the benefit structure & the delivery process; a strong belief that people should be clearly better off in work than on benefits; and the need for more details before full endorsement of the proposals could be given