Only one in seven households (6,000) under the #BenefitCap found #work - still claiming 8,000 #IainDuncanSmith? Despite 10 Downing Street & David Cameron crowing about the success of its cap, only one in seven families found work over the first year it operated. 42,000 had their #benefits cut but fewer than 6,000 escaped by getting jobs, while 7,000 reduced their claims, raising the prospect of #poverty being more likely than work. Iain Duncan Smith, who introduced the idea, has claimed that forcing people off welfare and into work is a key reason for implementing the cap. These latest figures have exposed his misleading views again, overestimating the number moving into #employment in a desperate attempt to pretend his policys effectiveness. Smith claimed last year that 8,000 people found jobs as a result of being capped, earning a rap from the Office for National Statistics which said the link was not proven. He attempted to justify this, telling BBC Radio 4s The Today Programme on 15th July 2013: You cannot absolutely prove those two things are connected – you cannot disprove what I said. I believe this to be right. I believe we are already seeing people going back to work who were not going back to work until this group were capped.
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 11:35:17 +0000
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