Do people on benefits deserve more help?
It's often been said that there's a financial disincentive to taking a job compared with a life on benefits.
That conclusion's backed by from an independent think tank set up by former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith. The Centre for Social Justice says we need to scrap the system that makes it possible to earn more on benefits than you can in work. It says spending more than £3.7bn to subsidise those on low wages in the UK would make work pay for more people.
Would that be money well spent? Should the taxpayer bear the burden, or should more pressure be put on low-paying employers? And do you think there should be more compulsion placed on the unemployed to take any job -- no matter the financial cost?
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