One that may in fact show that £Billions are being stolen via the DWP? Not by claimants but by big companies and others?
Secondly that ‘benefit’ is a joke and nobody is getting it.
The rich and the well are being paid the benefits. The poor are not.
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Independent on Sunday - another ignorant, untruthful piece about 'benefits'
06.01.2008 04:55
Why is it ignorant?
It says nothing about the real reason why there are any number of people claiming benefits. It fails to show that the reason why the numbers on benefits are relatively high is to do with the ideology being followed by BOTH main parties while in office.
It was John major who raised the number of people seeking benefits categorised in ways designed to hide the fact of unemployment.
That is why the different groups claiming benefit are being accommodated under these headings.
Despite what Cameron is saying or what Gordon Brown is saying, the reality is that the economic decision makers and policy makers are following a dishonest line. They don’t want to say how it is that Billions of public money can be wasted in deals that actually see Big Business contractors take the money without delivering economic benefits to the country.
That is what the Independent on Sunday should have looked at. But it hasn't.
Like the empty and the soulless sermons of Frankenstein-like 'preacher' [!!!] man and overly-hyped ‘former Social Security Minister’ and ‘the only serious’ ‘welfare reform thinking MP’ Frank Field, who is in fact like 'Dracula' bent on sucking the blood out of the welfare system, the two main parties have again failed to tell the truth. And with their failure comes the failure of the Independent on Sunday.
Others in the media pack frenetically embarked on chasing ‘benefit’ stories, are equally ignorant and they do the 'British economy' no favours at all with their stupid 'news' reports on benefits..
Here is the Independent on Sunday piece as it appears on their web site this morning:
“6 January 2008 04:35
Cameron promises crackdown on incapacity benefit
Tory leader to unveil US-style welfare-to-work scheme that would see payments reduced or cut altogether
By Andrew Grice
Published: 06 January 2008
Thousands of sick and disabled people would see their incapacity benefit payments cut by £20 a week under an American-style "tough love" welfare policy to be unveiled by David Cameron on Tuesday.
He will promise that a Tory government would force all 2.64 million people on the benefit to undergo a "fit for work" test. Those capable of work will be transferred immediately to the less generous jobseekers' allowance for the unemployed and will have to look for work to keep that.
Claimants who have the potential to work will be referred to private firms and voluntary groups with expertise in getting people into jobs, which will help them prepare to return to employment. They will have a free hand over their methods and will be paid by results.
The Tories insist that disabled people who are incapable of work will continue to receive incapacity benefit. They will be able to volunteer for one-to-one help from the welfare-to-work scheme. But those with a "non-permanent condition" will have to repeat the "fit for work" test regularly.
Mr Cameron wants to make welfare a key battleground at the next general election. He believes his party can outflank Labour by producing more radical reforms and will accuse the Government of failing to live up to its rhetoric about change. But his proposals will provoke controversy. They are modelled on tough welfare-to-work schemes in US states such as Wisconsin, where benefits are withdrawn from people who refuse to seek work. Although the number of claimants has dropped dramatically, critics say that up to one in three of those who lose their benefits have to rely on emergency handouts from charities.
The Tories' hardline approach to the sick and disabled will also extend to single mothers. At present, they lose their entitlement to income support when their youngest child reaches 16. The Tories want lone parents to work part-time when their youngest child goes to primary school and to go full-time when the child transfers to secondary school.
Mr Cameron will accuse Labour of abandoning people on incapacity benefit, some one million of whom are said to want to work. Mental illnesses such as depression have replaced industrial injuries as the main reason for new claims. The number of under 25s claiming has risen by more than 50 per cent, and 6,600 people aged 16 and 17 receive the benefit.
The Tories say the new "fit for work" test will be funded by scrapping unsuccessful employment programmes and that payment by results for welfare-to-work providers would save money that could be spent on ending a bias against couples in the tax credit system.
Chris Grayling, the shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, said: "It's time to take tough action against those who are deliberately staying at home and claiming benefits rather than going back into work. We think that if you get a reasonable job offer, you should take it – and if you don't, then you can't expect to be able to carry on claiming out-of-work benefits."
He added: "Under Gordon Brown we have seen millions of people coming into the country to work. Yet it's still possible for many British people to stay at home on benefits, and not go back to work. That simply doesn't make sense."
Peter Hain, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, said: "Our approach is based on social justice and full employment, and our policies are firm, fair, funded and deliverable. The Tories' policies are deeply reactionary, unfair, unfunded and undeliverable. They are basically saying that everyone on benefits is a scrounger and will be frogmarched into a job or will have their benefits cut off."
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