welfare

Welfare reform: deserved defeats

This week the government has faced a number of defeats for proposals for welfare reform linked to disability. These have included:

National Partnership Team contacts published

New Partnership Manager contact details were published by the Department for Work and Pensions on the 5th January 2012 (see their website). The national Partnership Team's role is to help create mutually beneficial partnerships for organisations and their customers. 

Support offered includes:

The Future State of Welfare

Did anyone catch 'The future state of welfare' with John Humphrys last night?

You can watch it on iplayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016ltsh/The_Future_State_of_Welfar...

I thought this was a well balanced report, that showed that there is no silver bullet to curing the UK's ailing benefits system.

Breakdown of welfare spending set out

The Guardian has released a breakdown of the welfare budget, detailing how much is spent on each benefit.

Referencing the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the article also goes on to discuss on how the welfare bill could be reduced, including means testing child benefit and the child tax credit.

To view the table please visit the Guardian.

Source: The Guardian