Benefit caps might make parents take more responsibility
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With regard to the caps on benefits in the Budget, nobody wants child poverty in the UK and imperfect as it is, nobody has come up with a better system to address this than to give benefits to parents.
But given that individuals with jobs often can’t afford to buy or rent in the area in which they work, at some point we have to start making those raising families without planning to be employed in the longer term move to cheaper neighbourhoods.
I welcome these caps - they are not so swingeing that people will be forced into the worst housing in the toughest neighbourhoods.
And how do you incentivise people to aspire to do better for their families by the fruits of their labour if you let them live in million-pound properties paid for by the state?
ANDREW OLIVER
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