Benefits simplification
Auteur: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Nombre de pages: 118 pages
ISBN: 0215035453, 9780215035455
Edition: The Stationery Office
Date de publication: The Stationery Office
Description: No welfare system that attempts to meet the needs of millions of vulnerable people can be simple but this report concludes the UK benefit system has an unacceptable level of dysfunctional complexity. This causes considerable operational difficulties and can contribute to financial hardship for claimants. Although some good work is being done on incremental and operational improvement, this cannot address the far-reaching systematic complexity. The Committee is disappointed that the Government has not set out a clear vision for a simplified system and asks that it should consider the case for radical reform. They note the role played by the Pensions Commission in assessing the options for UK pensions and propose the establishment of a Welfare Commission that can undertake a full examination of the possibility for fundamental change.