Benefits plan 'could cause poverty'
Updated on 21 November 2008
A senior government advisor has warned tough new measures to get the jobless into work or face benefit cuts could leave people worse off.
Sir Richard Tilt, chairman of the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC), wants ministers to reconsider plans to force lone parents, disabled people and the long-term jobless to seek work in the face of rising unemployment in the UK, reports claim.
Sir Richard said the welfare-to-work drive could increase hardship in lone parent families and should be delayed by one or two years, the BBC reported.
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