No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility: A Response to the Green Paper

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One Parent Families|Gingerbread’s response to new proposals on welfare reform

October 2008

Introduction

Government has made good progress in tackling child poverty, and increasing the employment rate of disadvantaged groups. We particularly welcome the announcement in this Green Paper that a full child maintenance disregard will be introduced: we have long argued for this and believe it will have a significant impact on child poverty.
However, we question whether now is the time to introduce further tough conditions on claimants of out of work benefits. Evidence to support such changes is weak, Jobcentre Plus has a heavy workload, and the economic downturn is already increasing unemployment. With both the economy and Jobcentre Plus already feeling the strain, adding to the pressures on claimants would be the wrong way forward.

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