Response - Reducing Dependency, Increasing opportunity: Options for the Future of Welfare to Work
By: Thomas Crawshaw
Published: June 2007
Response - Reducing Dependency, Increasing Opportunity: Options for the Future of Welfare to Work
Shelter believes that the Government's welfare to work agenda must focus strongly on the potential of Housing Benefit Reform to overcome work disincentives and to provide extra support for the 'in work' poor. We have highlighted in our submission a number of areas which we believe deserve close consideration:
Housing Benefit tapers and tax credits
Interaction with Working Tax Credit
Earnings disregard
Changes of circumstance
Single Room Rent and benefit shortfalls
Temporary accommodation and Working Future pilot