From axing a deaf person's benefits for not taking a job in a telephone call centre to redefining poverty, what's been the worst welfare reform?
What is the worst welfare reform?
- Work Capability Assessments
- 86
- Bedroom Tax
- 13
- Benefit sanctions
- 44
- Redefining child poverty
- 26
- Scrapping housing benefit for young people
- 19
Work is the best route out of poverty, both Tony Blair and David Cameron have proclaimed. But, coincidentally, it's also the best way to reduce the welfare budget.
For at least the last five years welfare reform has been the single biggest factor affecting Britain's lower social classes, blamed for trapping people into a cycle of inescapable poverty, especially the vulnerable, the disabled and the unemployed.
What, in your view, has been the worst benefit reform?
