People receiving unemployment benefit on its own are receiving only slightly more than would tip them into destitution, a report has warned.
The welfare system is “almost unrecognisable” to that created after the Second World War following William Beveridge’s seminal report, the Resolution Foundation said.
The think tank said that, while working-age social security spending has more than doubled since the creation of the modern welfare state, income support has consistently fallen further behind average earnings.People receive very low levels of basic income support, with a “porous safety net” which favours lower-income families above single adults by helping with extra costs […]
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