http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/23/iain-duncan-smith-wrag-benefit-cuts?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position4:anchor%20image 550,000 people currently considered too sick to work face losing financial support Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith Iain Duncan-Smith crawls out from the woodwork with yet another pernicious proposal designed to inflict financial hardship on those least able to resist and to punish people for being sick. This is not in itself, unusual in this ConDem coalition country, where the demonisation and marginalisation of those sections of society, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed and any other benefit claimants are considered to be prime targets for cuts to the welfare system in the name of austerity and "saving money". In the case of Duncan-Smith, he alone stands out as the undisputed leader of the drive for harsher and harsher measures and takes the...
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/not-so-universal-credit-government-puts-the-brakes-on-trials-of-its-controversial-new-benefits-programme-8554053.html Ministers have significantly scaled back plans to begin piloting their controversial universal credit programme next month. Iain Duncan Smith: Secretary of State for Work and pensions Another Iain Duncan Smith failure.This man is an embarrassment to all and sundry. Everything Midas touched turned to gold, but in the case of IDS, everything he touches turns to rat droppings.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/10/iain-duncan-smith-justin-welby-reforms_n_2849177.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Iain Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary said "fairness" was at the centre of the overhaul he was steering through parliament. Iain Duncan Smith Iain Duncan Smith, failed Conservative party leader, failed shadow defence secretary, central character in "Betsygate" and arch enemy of working people, (to mention just a few points from his rather checkered past), considers that it is fair to attack the sick, the disabled and young in the name of welfare reforms. His understanding of the word fair is as warped as is his personality.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/20/iain-duncan-smiths-explodes-on-lbc-over-workfare_n_2725765.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Iain Duncan Smith's Anger Over Poundland, Workfare And Cait Reilly LBC's James O'Brien Iain Duncan Smith lost his rag Iain Duncan Smith is loosing his temper more and more often recently. Just listen to the supercilious Work and pensions secretary in this interview with James O'Brien. https://audioboo.fm/boos/1223720-iain-duncan-smith-s-explosive-row-with-james-o-brien Duncan Smith's behaviour and outburst over the past few months is indicative of the fact the he is loosing it completely and slipping into a "through the looking glass" world of his own reality. Totally ignoring the questions and talking over any comments made by the interviewer, Duncan Smith rants on about "workfare", "the taxpayer paying her (Cait Reilly) wages", "jobseekers being lucky that ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefits-cap-seven-million-families-hit-8441819.html Benefits cap: seven million families hit Iain Duncan Smith , Prime Minster David Cameron and George Osborne Government insists there are no "soft options" when it comes to tackling the deficit. The Government has insisted capping benefits at 1% for the next three years is vital in reducing the debt. There are however, no plans being prepared to stop the energy companies increasing their prices two or even three times every year, to cap any bonus payments made by banks or other financial institutions to 1% or less, to restrict the prices charged to consumers by the water companies or public utilities, to cut the subsidies paid to private companies such as the railways and to reverse their recently announced inflation busting price hikes. When it comes to essential measures to reduce the deficit, this government seems to have forgotten that "we are all in i...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ios-special-report-families-hit-by-freeze-in-child-benefit-8433331.html Failure to match inflation will affect those on low and middle incomes new child benefit rules unfair Yet another report saying what many of us have been saying since this ill conceived and knee jerk "policy" of "welfare reforms" first saw the light of day. The Child Benefit system may well be in need of reform, but this arbitrary and unfair hash up of rushed, politically expedient sound bites is not the answer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/nov/17/benefit-cap-immoral-sarah-teather The government's flagship plan to impose a £500-a-week cap on benefits paid to families has been denounced as immoral and deeply socially divisive in a savage attack by the former coalition minister for children and families. Sarah Teather MP Has Sarah Teather actually "seen the light"? Her comments certainly do not concur with what she said on "Question Time" some months ago. Either it is sour grapes, or she was telling porkies when she was in cabinet. Perhaps she actually believes now what many of us have been arguing for months and she will now join the opposition to this socially decisive and politically bankrupt apology of a government. A spokesman for Iain Duncan Smith , the work and pensions minister, said: "The criticisms Sarah Teather is leveling against the government's welfare reforms are hugely misinformed" Well, he would say ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/30/welfare-benefits Universal credit will hit low-income families, charity warns Universal credit – free school meals could be under threat as families' earnings rise under the system, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation adds its weight to the argument that Universal credit will hit low-income families. Charities, pressure groups, low income support groups, trade unions, economic experts and numerous other bodies have all come to the same view. However, it seems that Ian Duncan Smith and other government dimwits are blessed with a monopoly of knowledge and wisdom on this issue, and will press on with this "welfare policy" regardless of all evidence and advice counseling against it. Dogma prevails over common sense.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9605858/120000-troubled-families-could-be-legally-banned-from-spending-benefits-on-alochol-and-tobacco.html Troubled families living on benefits will be legally barred from spending welfare money on alcohol and tobacco, under plans being drawn up in Whitehall. Just like that ! Ian Duncan Smith. Three of the biggest numbskulls to ever hold a parliamentary seat, let alone a position in government. A harebrained scheme too far. How much will it cost? How will it be managed? How many extra civil servants will be required to manage the scheme? What is a "problem family? The list of questions is almost endless. There is a problem with benefits being spent on alcohol and tobacco sometimes to the detriment of the family, which should be addressed, but not in this knee jerk simplistic fashion, more concerned with popularity than reality. These three should think again, and then do something more useful.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/08/conservative-welfare-cuts-analysis The Tories claim they are making things fairer but their plans to save £10bn rely on penalising poorer children with siblings They have always been a nasty, authoritarian bunch of self centered tyrants. Its just that over the past few years some of them have become even more nasty and authoritarian (if that's possible). It seems that there is a competition between Duncan Smith, Osborne, Rabb, Schapps and a few others to be the most nasty.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ Cameron to urge debate on welfare pay-outs. THE REAL OBJECTIVE IS TO DISMANTLE THE WHOLE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE UK. Cameron, Duncan Smith,Osborne and the rest of the evil conspirators in the Tory ranks should really come clean and stop fishing for public support by popular sound bites. Their real objective in the medium to long term, is the complete scrapping and destruction of the welfare system in this country.