Welfare Reform Works as Coalition Govt looks to benefit 2.7m UK households

This Government is on the side of people who want to get ahead. We will focus on encouraging people to get into work and reforming the welfare system to ensure that work always pays and no one can say they are better off on benefits.

The benefits system has created a benefits culture. It doesn’t just allow people to act irresponsibly, but often actively encourages them to do so.



Whether it’s the sheer complexity and the perverse incentives of the benefits system, or the failure to penalise those who choose to live off the hard work of others or whether it’s the failure to offer the right support for people who are desperate to go back into work, we’ve created the bizarre situation where time and again the rational thing for people to do is, quite clearly, the wrong thing.

This is why the UK Government have published the Welfare Bill to tackle the benefits culture and make work pay. Under Labour, one and a half million people spent most of the last decade on out-of-work benefits and the benefits system cost every working family £3,000 each year.

This Government is doing more to reform welfare in nine months than Labour did in 13 years.