United Kingdom
The British House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee has announced an inquiry to "examine the feasibility of simplifying the UK benefit system".
Particular areas of interest are likely to include:
- the consequences of historical benefit changes and reform on the current system
- the effectiveness of the Benefits Simplification Unit, progress of the Department for Work and Pensions Simplification Plan and implications of the Freud review
- international examples, where benefit systems have been reformed and/or developed to retain relative simplicity
Read more about this topic: Welfare Benefit Simplification
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