Tory Benefits
One of the policies to come of the Conservative conference last week which I particuarly like is this one:
I want to put an end to the situation where welfare is an entitlement. Instead I want our welfare state to become a two-way contract.
Our job is to help people when they are down - their job is to do everything they can to get themselves and their families back on their feet again…
Everyone who could work will be expected to take up the offer of support. They will be expected to get out of the house and to do something every day. If they won’t, then they will automatically lose their benefits until they do.
We’ll introduce mandatory independent medical assessments for people claiming incapacity benefit to see who can and cannot work. Anyone claiming the benefit on a false premise will lose it immediately. We’ll equip those with the potential to return to work with specialist support to do so. But if they refuse that support, they will also lose their benefits…
If people refuse reasonable job offers they’ll lose their benefits and if they refuse an offer three times, then they’ll be excluded from the benefits system for three years.
And for those who don’t manage to find work and claim jobseekers allowance for more than two years, we’ll introduce a year-long community work programme to get them back into the work habit.
No one benefits from sitting at home on benefits doing nothing.
In a nutshell, it is giving putting the opportunity in to the hands of the people. They will get the opportunities, and they have a simple choice: take them or lose their benefits. Which is more than fair enough - taxpayers are not a charity.
This is similar to ideas I have previously proposed. If we make it too comfortable for people to sit at home on benefits, why would they bother going to out to get a job? We must ensure that it isn’t easy for people to do this. They should either be actively looking for a job or taking part in training - or both.
It is very simple, and absolutely no-one with even half a brain can object to this proposal.
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