1- How many families are dependent on benefits and what are the reasons for
this.
About 20.3 million people are taking benefits from the UK government. 20.3 million Families are taking different
kind of benefits (64% of all families), 8.7 million people are pensioners. 9.6
million Families are taking benefits of half of their income. (30% of all
families). Around 5.3 million people of them are pensioners. Government should
reduce their
2- What is the opinion of the government? What changes/reforms have they
made and how do they justify these?
The government want to make some major changes in taxes like to reduce the
housing benefits etc. The government has been introduced many policies like benefit
claimant policy for jobs, cut welfare bills, and introducing council tax etc.
The government stance is clear that people should change their ways of treating
system and they need to rebuild their culture.
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separating the facts from the fiction Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/06/welfare-britain-facts-myths (Accessed: 29May 2013).
Tourianski J. (2013) Do as I say,not as I do Available at: http://bravetheworld.com/ (Accessed: 29 May 2013)