Welfare Reform Bill
5:30 pm
Professor Gregg: Indeed. It is almost testament to the inaction over the last God knows how long. The other point that is worth making is that there is the learning process, which I have just described, but there is also a cost process. That is partly why that group is being pushed into the AME-DEL territory where you try to align cost to the potential receipt of savings, which is why that kind of group makes most sense there. Longer term, this is in the territory of moving all the boundaries that divide client groups by duration or IB versus lone parent. We are moving in a direction of the single working age benefit with a single, overarching system, but we are trying to focus the right support on the right individuals. At the moment I am talking about it in big groups, which is not necessarily the end game. The end game is much more trying to allocate people on their own individual circumstances. But the first stage, just for clarity and ease of delivery, is to do it in clearly separated groups with clearly separated pathfinders.