Welfare State

Christopher Chantrill (2012)

1- How many families are dependent on benefits and what are the reasons for this ?

According to The Guardian (2013) they stated "The welfare state is a big part of British family life, with 20.3 million families receiving one some kind of benefit (64% of all families), about 8.7 million of them pensioners." There are many reasons for why families are independent on benefits for example, unemployment, high tax and sickness.

2- What is the opinion of the government? 

The opinion of the government is to change taxes like reducing them and cut housing benefits.  

3- What changes/reforms have they made and how do they justify these ?

They have made many changes like producing council tax, cut welfare bills and introduce benefit claimant for jobs. They justified this so that the people will end up restructuring their culture.

Bibliography

Chantrill, C. (2012) Women of the Walfare state.Available at:http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2012/05/women-of-the-welfare-state/ (Accessed: 29 May 2013).
The Guardian (2013) Benefits in Britain: separating the facts from the fiction  Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/06/welfare-britain-facts-myths (Accessed: 29May 2013).