Duncan Smith: Current system creates risk and uncertainty
Announcing welfare reform plans in East London today, work and pensions minister Iain Duncan Smith said:
“After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
“For many people, taking a job leaves them no better off than a life on benefits, and this has trapped significant parts of our society in inter generational worklessness and entrenched poverty.
“The complexity of the system also creates risk and uncertainty for the people in society who most need stability.
“We want to simplify the system to make it clear that work will always pay.
“Our reforms should also ensure the system is easier for individuals to understand and will reduce the high costs of fraud and error.”
