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CPAG Conference 2008

This document outlines the government's reform agenda aimed at transforming the welfare system. Key goals include achieving an 80% employment rate, reducing incapacity benefit claimants by 1 million, and halving child poverty by 2010 and ending it by 2020. The strategy emphasizes obligations for claimants, including tougher jobseeker sanctions, mandatory work training for specific groups, and new measures for drug users. It also proposes significant changes to child maintenance and benefits, moving towards a simplified two-benefit system. More detailed proposals are expected later this year.

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CPAG Conference 2008

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  1. CPAG Conference 2008 Workshop Welfare Reform Green Paper No one written off

  2. Government’s context for reform Goals • 80% employment rate • Reduce IB claimants by 1 million • 300,000 more lone parents into work • Halve child poverty by 2010, end it by 2020 • Equality for disabled people by 2025

  3. Ending child poverty • Full child maintenance disregard from April 2010 • Unmarried parents required to jointly register birth • Partners of claimants to be required to look for work once youngest child is 7

  4. An obligation to work • Toughening JSA sanctions • Automatic sanctions if fail to attend mandatory WFI without good cause • Working for your benefit • Requiring jobseekers, lone parents and people on incapacity benefits to train

  5. Drug users • Different conditions for drug users • Effectively identify problem drug users • Share information between police, probation services and prisons • Treatment allowance in place of benefit • Exploring whether to require all claimants to declare if they have a drug problem • Drug co-ordinators in JC+ by end of 2009

  6. No one written off • Review the new WCA • Between 2009 & 2013 re-asses all IB claimants under the WCA • Max. interval for WCA will be 2 years • WFHRA repeated at key points in claim • From 2010 ESA claimants required to undertake work-related activity if not in support group • Pathways support extended to all existing claimants under age of 50 • Lighter-touch for those 50+

  7. Choice & control for disabled people • Right to request control over funding entitlements • Greater choice over how best to spend the money to meet their needs • More detailed proposals expected later in year

  8. Simplifying and streamlining • Abolishing income support • Two benefit system: JSA & ESA • IB rates aligned with ESA • NI contribution conditions reformed • Review of EEA nationals access to benefits • Bereavement benefits & IIDB • Social fund • Conditionality review

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