Beware the march of IDS and his gothic folly Iain Duncan Smith’s wildly overambitious reform of the benefit system is poor policy – and poorly implemented. In the early phase of the coalition, the office run by Iain Duncan Smith was known as the Department for Worship and Prayer. The new secretary of state was flushed with fervour about poverty. An epiphany on the Easterhouse estate in Glasgow in 2002 convinced him that a grand Universal Credit scheme would make people better off. (The Times) Its had the entirely opposite effect, with hundreds of thousands of families being forced into abject poverty as benefit and system delays often deny them the basic money required to live from day to day. Neither has his improvements to the sick and disabled social security aspects gone well. The shambles that was ATOS and the WCA means that hundreds of thousands more remain in the assessment loop, waiting for someone to decide if theyre too ill to work or not. Then theres the ever increasing sanctions regime. Its almost as if the Tories had set out to destroy the welfare safety net .......
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:39:06 +0000
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