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BENEFIT SYSTEM + SOCIAL SECURITY + UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS + MINIMUM WAGE
Benefit system * social security * unemployment benefits * minimum wage * benefit fraud * social system * child allowance * disability * sickness and invalidity allowance * long term unemployed
We live in a world where some people work hard and pay taxes, some people are unable to help themselves because of where they live or due to illness and some people are happy to sponge off society and take whatever is given to them.
We would to reward people who work hard, support those who cannot help themselves and toughen up on those who simply sponge off the system.
BENEFIT SYSTEM AND REWARDS
We believe that the benefits system should be directed at the people who need it rather than those who just want to milk the system. Tighter controls, simplified procedures, higher payments to the genuinely sick and needy with penalties to encourage the long term unemployed back to work.
This would be paid for by
increasing taxes
with the increased section of the payments being refunded less tax as a single payment every ten years to tax payers who have not made any claim during the previous ten years.
A taxpayer who could look forward to receiving a windfall from the government of several thousand pounds every ten years would be less likely to want to claim benefits unless they genuinely needed to.
SICKNESS AND INVALIDITY ALLOWANCES
The increase in revenue from the additional tax and reduced claims could then be diverted to pay decent sickness and invalidity allowances to people who genuinely needed to claim benefits. These would be means tested and also subject to government medicals to prevent GP's having the responsibility to sign people off as sick. Anyone wishing to claim sickness and invalidity allowance would have to be referred to a Government medical officer.
We would also introduce legislation to ensure that all mortgages and loans above half a years income of the respective borrower came with inbuilt life assurance, critical illness and sickness and health insurance as standard. These insurance policies would be transferable to new mortgages and replacement loans.
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
Unemployment benefits would be payable for a maximum of six months at a full qualifying rate; at 75% for a further 3 months; at 50% for the last 3 months and then cease. Special dispensation allowance would be available for areas that were considered black spots.
If employment wasn't found within the first 3 months of unemployment, candidates would be expected to attend government retraining courses.
There would be no job seekers allowance and no unemployment benefit for school leavers.
MINIMUM WAGE
Minimum wages need to be high enough to encourage people and school leavers into work and not make it more profitable to remain on benefits. Companies would receive tax incentives for employing anyone for longer than three years who had previously been unemployed or on invalidity benefit.
BENEFIT FRAUD
A
national identity card
that tracked if people were working and where they lived would make it harder to defraud the system. Courts would have the power to confiscate goods and property as well as give prison sentences that fitted society and not just the crime to any defrauding or aiding and abetting anyone found guilty of benefit fraud.
CHILD ALLOWANCE
Child allowance would only be payable for the first child born to a women. It is ridiculous to financially encourage childbirth in a world that is overpopulated or where mothers have numerous children conceived by a number of fathers.
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