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Fight Duncan Smith’s welfare proposals
Iain Duncan Smith has published a welfare white paper proposing a Universal Credit. Behind the rhetoric of simplification and fairness, it proposes a massive extension of workfare delivered by private contractors, paid by results. It also promises harsher conditionality to deal with ‘welfare dependency’ and ‘worklessness culture’. It follows £18 billion of welfare cuts announced in the June Budget and October spending review. [continue...]
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