Welfare Facts Blog Series

This series of blogs by Roger Kerr (rogerkerr.wordpress.com) brings together reports, facts and findings from around the world on welfare reform.

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Welfare Facts Series

 #1: Three out of four UK benefit claimants found fit for work, 1 June 2011
Evidence of the need for reform of Britain’s £192 billion per annum welfare system continues to flow in, with applicants for the new Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) now having to submit.....


 #2: Benefit fraud on the rise, 24 June 2011
Three separate welfare stories caught my eye this week, all on benefit fraud.  The Bay of Plenty Times reported that more than $1 million of benefit fraud was committed by 41 Western Bay people.....

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Blogs on welfare from around the country

Child poverty - what is left unsaid, Lindsay Mitchell, 23 September 2011
 
Unemployment and the youth minimum wage, Eric Crampton, 23 September 2011