So Richard Tilt (Head of the Social Security Advisory Committee) isn’t happy with these welfare reforms that attack lone parents and disabled people. From Monday those with children aged 12 and over will no longer be able to make a new claim for income support. Instead, they will be able to claim Jobseekers Allowance if they are actively looking for work.
Tilt believes that these reforms will push people into further poverty especially with the current economic crisis. He believes that the reforms should be delayed. Personally, they should be scrapped not delayed. But Purnell, along with the whole NL ideology is desperate to continue these pernicious attacks, economic crisis or no economic crisis.
We are not forcing people to work and leave benefits,” he [James Purnell] told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. What we are saying is people should take up the support which we know works. I think it would be wrong at a time when it may be harder for people to find work to provide them with less help.
Support? Help? The private sector will be offering that ’support’, where people will be either ‘parked’ or ‘creamed’ cos that’s what it will be about some contractor making a nice big profit. Sanctions and penalising people will cause immeasurable poverty and misery. And as the DWP’s own research shows sanctions don’t work. NL represents the politics of the workhouse by using methods of sanctions to penalise the poor. And even if NL lose the next election the Tories will continue with a more turbo-charged attack on the welfare state and benefits system.
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