In 2021/22 the UK government is expected to spend approximately 216 billion British pounds on benefits, an increase of around three million pounds when compared with the previous year. A single unemployed adult aged 25 or over receives a monthly benefit payment of 325 pounds ($439). In January 2022 the British government announced it would tighten rules for some people claiming unemployment benefits. Currently job seekers receiving state benefits can spend up to three months looking purely for work similar to their previous job, but this will soon be reduced to four weeks, the Department for Work and Pensions said.
@PVZHQ54yrs4Y
The punitive restrictions should be less harsh, and used only when all other potential situations have been fully explored and reasonably implemented.
The financial assistance offered should be raised to a sensible level (one where people aren't left in needless poverty), and there should be more practical support than just financial aid offered to those that need it.
@PXFL6R4yrs4Y
Looking for fraud in the benefit system should be confined to just that, not penalising everyone.
@PYKZLQ4yrs4Y
reform to be work driven
@Q3WYQG4yrs4Y
There's no easy answer to benefits. SOme people in dire need slip through the cracks, other learn to play the system. And sudden cut-off caps and limits discourage people from moving into the jobs market because a little improvement in wages leads to a huge cut in benefits
@Q4B8NJ4yrs4Y
There should be much more scrutiny of claimants both deserving and undeserving.
@Q4NHND4yrs4Y
Criteria for claiming should be reviewed and we have to create more jobs and jobs with a living wage
@Q54D5W4yrs4Y
Benefits should be case based with greater one-to-one care and attention
@Q54W884yrs4Y
minimum wage should be significantly increased (perhaps varying by job type) in return no benefits paid to workers but instead money paid to businesses as a per employee-on-mimimum-wage incentive. The incentives to a businesses would reduce as the businesses became more profitable.
@Q559PC4yrs4Y
Not all benefits should be targeted as they are being. Disability benefits in particular are being targeted too harshly.
@Q55X8J4yrs4Y
Benefits should be no more than the minimum wage of a full time worker, and only in place for those who truly need it
@Q575QV4yrs4Y
Government should be doing more to relocate people with a desire to work and therefore reduce the overall burden of welfare on the rest of society.
Replace working income for those with genuine health issues which mean they cannot work (with signed doctor approval), otherwise more reform so it supplements a working income.
Loopholes should be closed but for those legitimately claiming it doesn't provide enough support, but should never replace a working income.
There are several issues that have been rolled up in this issue. Firstly it is not about how much is spent on welfare benefits it is about what those on welfare need to survive. Poor housing leads to poor health physical and mental - However the cost of housing bears no relationship to its quality. We need to build council houses in expensive areas with rents affordable to people of limited means; Given we may never be able to build enough such house the actual rent charged should be means dependent.
The government should not be subsidizing private Industry but insisting that pay their staff a living wage. This would reduce the benefits bill. However all children, no matter the size of their family should get support from the state to ensure that they are not impoverished
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