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edited April 18 in Current affairs

This is a very long report about Iain Duncan Smith's plan to fix a 'broken' benefits system with Universal Credit.

"He came eventually to the view that‘ the biggest barrier to those entering work for the first time was the benefit system itself’. It needed fundamental reform to ensure that work paid."

“The source of many problems has been the absence of a detailed view of how Universal Credit is meant to work.” National Audit Office, Universal Credit: Early progress, HC 621, 2013, p. 33

"In May 2015, the UK was back at the polls for that month’s general election. The outcome was a Conservative majority, and both IDS and Lord Freud returned to the DWP to finish the job."

5064 IFG - Universal Credit Publication WEB AW.pdf (The Institute for Government acts as a catalyst for better government. We are an independent charity, founded to help make government more effective)

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    House of Commons

    Monday 28 November 2011

    Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore) (Lab) to IDS

    As the Secretary of State will know, the Institute for Fiscal Studies predicts that by 2015 there will be 400,000 more children in poverty. Does he agree with us about this, and if so, what is he going to do about it—or does he just accept that it is a necessary evil of the Government’s current policies?

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