Benefit shake-up would slash jobless and child poverty, says new CSJ report

Plans to move 600,000 households off welfare and into work will be unveiled today (September 16) in a major new report from the think-tank set up by the former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith.
The 370-page report from the Centre for Social Justice , the most far-reaching review of the welfare system in 60 years, estimates that the shake-up will boost the incomes of the lowest paid by nearly £5 billion.
It also calculates that its radical recasting of state support for the jobless and low-paid – built around measures to make work pay and increasing support for working couples - will lift more than 200,000 children out of poverty.
But although there will be some short-term costs to the taxpayer, these will be offset by savings elsewhere. And in the medium term, the welfare overhaul will save the state money.
Download the report at http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=37