Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden has defended the government’s welfare changes, highlighting how incentives “matter in the system”, arguing the previous approach “signed people off”. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00We've already made some changes to welfare. We've legislated to narrow the gap between what someone gets for standard unemployment and the additional money that people get for being long term sick. The system that we inherited at the election last year from the Conservatives meant that was double your money if you were declared unfit for work. We've narrowed that, cut that in half because incentives matter in the system.
00:29But as well as that, we're getting more support to people to help search for work, including many long term sick and disabled people because we don't want to give up on them either. And the previous system was really signing people off and writing them off. So we're going to be spending a couple of billion pounds in the next few years getting more employment support to long term sick and disabled people to help them back into work.
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