“The welfare state is now a vast, sprawling bureaucracy that can act to entrench, rather than solve, the problems of … Continue reading “The DWP on welfare reform: good on the generalities, weak on the details”

A single claimant of Jobseeker’s Allowance or Income Support aged 18-24 receives £51.85 a week. This goes up to £65.45 … Continue reading “Fairness in benefits could save billions”

Iain Duncan Smith deserves credit for fully understanding the nature and scale of the welfare problem. But that’s the easy … Continue reading “Going beyond the IDS reforms”

The welfare section of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) contains many elements which are “pragmatic” rather than strategic. This includes … Continue reading “Work incentives for single parents will worsen – thanks to child poverty targets”

The DWP is getting serious about the plans to merge a host of existing benefits into a Universal Credit (UC) … Continue reading “Universal Credit: a good idea but certainly no cure-all”

Here at the IEA, it is something of a rule that if Hayek endorsed an idea then it probably wasn’t … Continue reading “A Hayekian solution to welfare reform”

“The welfare state is now a vast, sprawling bureaucracy that can act to entrench, rather than solve, the problems of … Continue reading “The DWP on welfare reform: good on the generalities, weak on the details”

A single claimant of Jobseeker’s Allowance or Income Support aged 18-24 receives £51.85 a week. This goes up to £65.45 … Continue reading “Fairness in benefits could save billions”

The UK still has a higher proportion of children living in workless households than any other member state of the … Continue reading “Better work incentives are the key to reducing child poverty”