Why I should give back my widow's pension

Article Abstract:

Universal benefits such as child benefit were very important when the UK's National Insurance system was devised in the 1940s. However, they are now becoming increasingly irrelevant, as many people can manage perfectly well financially without them. Most politicians are happy to allow universal benefits to continue to become increasingly irrelevant, but Barbara Castle is seeking to have the link between pensions and earnings restored. A better approach would be to redistribute existing pensions to give more to the poor and less to the wealthy.

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Even now, they still perform the rite of spite

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The UK's Social Market Foundation remains strongly opposed to many elements of the welfare state. Economist Lord Skidelsky, who chairs the foundation, believes that the UK cannot afford the welfare state in its current form, and has gone as far as deliberately misinterpreting statements by Prime Minister Tony Blair on this issue to back up his argument. Speakers at a recent Social Market Foundation conference included Charles Murray, who is particularly keen to see the abolition of welfare benefits for single mothers.

Finance, Single mothers

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Welfare to work: the gamble that has to pay off

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UK Chancellor Gordon Brown is taking considerable risks in placing great emphasis on a welfare-to-work programme to replace welfare benefits. Some observers have been critical of the moral overtones of this approach, and reject the idea that work will necessarily benefit the individual. It is possible that the government is misguided in deciding to cut all benefits. Particularly in the case of single parents, cutting benefits may actually prove a disincentive to seeking employment.

Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Income Security, Social policy, Domestic economic assistance

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