According to the Institute of Fiscal Studies, ConDem benefit reforms will help 2.5 million households at the expense of 1.4 million other families – many of whom will be lone-parents.
The government’s "universal credit" is set to replace a range of benefits and tax credits on the premise that finding work should not affect state support. Yet today’s IFS report says that lone parents and families with savings of more than £16,000 will be worse off.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan-Smith had told the Commons that there would be “no losers” as a result of simplified rules set to kick in from 2013. The IFS findings are expected to prompt another war or words between the independent think tank and coalition ministers who have already attacked housing and child benefits.
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