Ministers are scrapping the council tax benefit system from April as part of welfare reform legislation.
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It might also depend partly on how you view the role of the benefit system.
But we need a benefit system that rewards work and that is on the side of families.
The Tories were convinced that the benefit system offered perverse incentives to people to become single parents.
The recently passed Welfare Reform Bill will introduce a number of changes to the existing housing benefit system.
The Coalition to Preserve the Defined Benefit System, a newly formed lobbying group of 57 companies, including R.
It will include the introduction of a single gateway to the benefit system for those of working age.
But removing obstacles to work will require significant reforms to the housing-benefit system.
They're all worth having, replied Marchant, even if the social tariffs would be better delivered through the tax and benefit system.
Germany's overhaul of the benefit system, by contrast, raises the supply of labour, relaxing the limits on the country's economic performance.
Iain Duncan Smith's plans for sweeping reforms of Britain's benefit system might not happen for four years, a minister has indicated.
In the longer term, Ms Horowitz wants a new sort of unemployment-benefit system based on a savings vehicle, rather than insurance.
The NFL has been steadfast on its plan to switch the referees from a defined benefit system to a 401 (k).
"These statistics also pose a challenge to employers and the state benefit system which still offer few concessions to fatherhood, " he said.
They often get overlooked in this debate about what happens to the benefit system at the bottom, the wealthiest at the top.
While those of working age can hope to get a job to get out of the benefit system, it is harder for older people.
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Mr Duncan Smith has outlined a range of options for the wholesale reform of Britain's benefit system, which he claims has reached breaking point.
"We are spending money where we don't need to and on the other hand, people are becoming trapped in the benefit system, " Mr Robertshaw said.
You cannot prove anything about the progressivity or not of the tax system by looking at the effects of both the tax and benefit system.
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"If they can get rid of these anomalies, which make it difficult for people to get out of the benefit system and into work, good luck to them, " he said.
The UK government says it wants to bring fairness back to the housing benefit system and that it does not expect many people will have to move home as a result.
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It is a striking thing to note that well over 60% of the beneficiaries in this program, which so often is misunderstood as only on old-age benefit system, are women and children.
Almost 20, 000 people are assessed each week for ESA - including those moving over from the old benefit system of Incapacity Benefit (IB) - in England, Wales and Scotland, DWP figures show.
But in its report the committee said the Department for Work and Pensions "must provide swift assurance that the transition to Universal Credit will not leave the benefit system vulnerable to fraud".
Two things have happened since then: the first is that the benefit system has become much less contributory, meaning that benefits are increasingly tied, not to your contribution, but to your situation.
But former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Steel said that, while Mrs McCoy's example was perhaps not a good one, there are people who do not work because of complexities in the benefit system.
The party says more needs to be done to make sure the tax and benefit system does not punish mothers who decide to work and a "real, professional" childcare service should be made available.
McKinsey estimates that in America 70% of them find new work within six months, but in Germany only 40% do, partly because of a generous benefit system as well as strict hiring and firing laws.
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