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Winners and losers from IDS reforms – says IFS
Here is a link to the full ft.com story if you are interested. But the key points of this morning’s report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies – on the impact of IDS’s universal credit – is:Continue...
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The IDS rule that punishes savers
A new means test. A savers penalty. A hit in income for 600,000 prudent households. Is this really Tory policy? Buried in the welfare reform bill, published tomorrow, is a new rule that will achieve...
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Here are some of the highlights from the DWP impact assessment: 1) Higher bill: The reforms in total will add £2.6bn to the welfare bill overall. There could be other “dynamic benefits” not included in...
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Universal credit and the IDS guarantee on losers
Iain Duncan Smith declared this morning that “nobody will be worse off” under Universal Credit. That is quite a claim, particularly given 1.7m households will lose out, at least in terms of their...
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Claiming benefits on your iPhone
Here’s a sentence to set alarm bells ringing: the Department for Work and Pensions is currently undertaking a rather large and important IT project to change the way people can claim benefits. As part...
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