What is really so sad about all these measures is they are so ill thought out they end up costing far more than they were supposed to save.
Part of the trouble is the DWP has been shown time and time again to be incompetent.
But the main problem is spiteful solutions to worries about financial losses from benefits and an ideological opposition to the benefits culture only comes up with crude punitive remedies rather than constructive ones actually safeguarding the needy while successfully removing the abusers. In fact I'll bet the abusers of the system are still finding ways around it.
Now if they had introduced a threshold of one bedroom above the ascertained minimum, it would have been so much more effective. Because the abusers were those people living in ten bedroomed mansions while on benefit. Not the honest majority living in basic unit homes designed with two or three bedrooms.
But I guess you cannot expect rocket science from public school boys......
What is really so sad about all these measures is they are so ill thought out they end up costing far more than they were supposed to save.
Part of the trouble is the DWP has been shown time and time again to be incompetent.
But the main problem is spiteful solutions to worries about financial losses from benefits and an ideological opposition to the benefits culture only comes up with crude punitive remedies rather than constructive ones actually safeguarding the needy while successfully removing the abusers. In fact I'll bet the abusers of the system are still finding ways around it.
Now if they had introduced a threshold of one bedroom above the ascertained minimum, it would have been so much more effective. Because the abusers were those people living in ten bedroomed mansions while on benefit. Not the honest majority living in basic unit homes designed with two or three bedrooms.
But I guess you cannot expect rocket science from public school boys......
