Comment on ‘We have to bring the benefits bill down’: Healey signals return to welfare reform
Buckshot@programming.dev 2 weeks agoYeah, i agree. You can cut the benefits bill by reducing payments and making lives worse, or you lift people up so they no longer need them. This seems like an attempt at the latter and I hope it works.
mildseason@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
People will always need welfare. The article says they giving an £100 million boost to apprenticeship schemes. Nothing about higher wages. The previous government wanted to cut welfare by £5 billion.
This is a bad decision. Everyone is still obsessed with growth. We cannot grow the economy to fix our issues, it doesn’t work like that anymore.
I’m all for lifting people up but forcing people to work by cutting their support does not acheive that.