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IDS criticises bishops over welfare reform
Iain Duncan Smith is spearheading the government’s welfare changes
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has accused bishops who oppose plans for welfare changes of failing to show concern for ordinary people.
He said they should think of those who pay taxes while some unemployed people live in large houses at public expense.
Bishops are expected to oppose the plans in the House of Lords on Monday.
Amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill
Concessions offered over disability benefit changes
Ministers are set to make concessions over controversial proposed changes to disability benefits.
The government is backing an amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill halving the time seriously ill or disabled people will have to wait to be eligible for Personal Independence Payments (PIPs).
Welfare Reform Bill
‘We won’t go back to the work house’
‘We won’t go back to the work house’ – a melodramatic slogan maybe, but one that captures the sense that many feel, that the Welfare Reform Bill, currently going through its first reading in the House of Lords before becoming law next month, represents a major step in the dismantling of state welfare, a return to a darker, pre-Beveridge age of a ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor.
Certainly it was a slogan that summed up the feelings of those gathered opposite the House of Lords on Wednesday, many of them living with disabilities, single parents and carers, a coalition of the dispossessed who feel victimised by the Bill.
