U.K. Minister Denounces Destructive Effects of Welfare
They're figuring this out now?
The welfare system is "promoting destructive behaviour" by encouraging poorer families to have more children and denying them the incentive to get a job, the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith will warn.
Iain Duncan Smith will say that the current payment of benefits is supporting "dysfunctional behaviour" and that for some families "the notion of taking a job is a mug's game".
In his first major speech since publicly agreeing to draw up another £10 billion of benefits savings, the Work and Pensions Secretary will insist that the system must return to the principles of William Beveridge, the founder of the modern welfare state.
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