UC (and the bedroom tax) is wrong on so many levels that its hard to know where to start.
I think one of the concerns is that it still won't get the long term employed, who have chosen to live on benefits, into work.
It targets and hurts the wrong people, those who have a real need of the welfare state.
Take my neighbours for example. They are a couple. Have 5 children. And have never worked a day in their life. They have 2 daughters who have left home and have children of their own (both were teenage pregnancies). They have 2 teenagers living at home who are at college. The youngest child is in primary school.
They live in a 3 bed council house.
Even with the recent JSA changes (having to prove you are looking for work etc) they still haven't been made to find employment.
AIBU to think UC will not change this? That they will still manage to avoid work?
I think UC will end up hurting a lot of people but not targeting the people it should be aimed at.
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To think Universal Credit still won't get the long term unemployed into work and targets the wrong people?
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retrorita · 25/03/2013 20:14
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