Welfare reforms doomed to fail under cuts agenda
30 July 2010
“Iain Duncan Smith seems to think he can magic away the benefits bill by encouraging more people into work. But, at a time when the coalition government is planning to cut departmental budgets by half in some cases, the question is, where are the jobs going to come from?
“The government’s own research shows that for every job cut in the public sector, another job will be lost in the private sector, and the cuts could add another one million people to dole queues.
“Rather than driving through its programme of destruction - including damaging cuts to Mr Duncan Smith’s own department - the government should accept the alternative that the economy can only grow by creating jobs and investing in our future.
“There is no such thing as a benefits trap, only a low-pay trap. If Mr Duncan Smith was genuinely interested in getting more people off benefits and into work, he would propose increasing the minimum wage which, currently, is insufficient to lift working people out of poverty.”
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