Transcript Welfare Reform Green Paper - national association of welfare rights

CPAG Conference
2008
Workshop
Welfare Reform Green Paper
No one written off
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Government’s context for reform
Goals
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80% employment rate
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Reduce IB claimants by 1 million
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300,000 more lone parents into work
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Halve child poverty by 2010, end it by 2020
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Equality for disabled people by 2025
Ending child poverty
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Full child maintenance disregard from April 2010
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Unmarried parents required to jointly register birth
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Partners of claimants to be required to look for
work once youngest child is 7
An obligation to work
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Toughening JSA sanctions
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Automatic sanctions if fail to attend mandatory
WFI without good cause
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Working for your benefit
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Requiring jobseekers, lone parents and people
on incapacity benefits to train
Drug users
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Different conditions for drug users
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Effectively identify problem drug users
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Share information between police, probation
services and prisons
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Treatment allowance in place of benefit
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Exploring whether to require all claimants to
declare if they have a drug problem
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Drug co-ordinators in JC+ by end of 2009
No one written off
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Review the new WCA
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Between 2009 & 2013 re-asses all IB claimants
under the WCA
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Max. interval for WCA will be 2 years
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WFHRA repeated at key points in claim
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From 2010 ESA claimants required to undertake
work-related activity if not in support group
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Pathways support extended to all existing
claimants under age of 50
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Lighter-touch for those 50+
Choice & control for disabled people
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Right to request control over funding entitlements
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Greater choice over how best to spend the
money to meet their needs
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More detailed proposals expected later in year
Simplifying and streamlining
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Abolishing income support
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Two benefit system: JSA & ESA
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IB rates aligned with ESA
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NI contribution conditions reformed
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Review of EEA nationals access to benefits
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Bereavement benefits & IIDB
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Social fund
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Conditionality review
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