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Welfare Reform Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Freud (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Thursday, 3 November 2011. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Welfare Reform Bill.
My Lords, I will look at it, but I am not sure I need to study it very hard. As I understand it, the fear of that individual is that if they earn too much money they get taken off their benefit structure entirely. Because they are earning too much, they are outside the disability benefit structure and they must therefore get on another one and they then have a terrible problem. That does not apply under the universal credit. The worst that could happen is that the universal credit goes down in the period, reflecting the emolument, but they are better off overall. That acute fear of being left stranded goes. In that particular case, and many other like it, the desperate cliff-edge position which currently exists is not there under universal credit.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
731 c482GC 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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