Giving more benefits to poor families
will not address child poverty because too many irresponsible parents
will spend it on alcohol or drugs, Iain Duncan Smith has warned.
The Work and Pensions Secretary said parental addiction – not family income – had emerged as the main factor in determining a child’s life chances.
He insisted that the last government’s strategy of spending more than £170billion in additional welfare payments had failed comprehensively.
Mr Duncan Smith said giving the family ‘an extra pound in benefits’ can even push them further into difficulty if the cash is used to fuel a parent’s dependency on alcohol or drugs.
In a speech today, he will suggest broader ways of calculating child poverty – including whether or not parents are in work, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt, gambling and poor health.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271018/Why-higher-benefits-wont-solve-child-poverty-Duncan-Smith-says-addict-parents-waste-cash-drink-drugs.html#ixzz2JY2D7dQB
The Work and Pensions Secretary said parental addiction – not family income – had emerged as the main factor in determining a child’s life chances.
He insisted that the last government’s strategy of spending more than £170billion in additional welfare payments had failed comprehensively.
Mr Duncan Smith said giving the family ‘an extra pound in benefits’ can even push them further into difficulty if the cash is used to fuel a parent’s dependency on alcohol or drugs.
In a speech today, he will suggest broader ways of calculating child poverty – including whether or not parents are in work, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt, gambling and poor health.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271018/Why-higher-benefits-wont-solve-child-poverty-Duncan-Smith-says-addict-parents-waste-cash-drink-drugs.html#ixzz2JY2D7dQB
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