The arguments around the benefits always revolve around one concept: fairness.
There are immortal questions – who deserves and not?
It raises sharp opinions as well as among the most severe local political decisions that the government must make.
There is a direct result if it is not immediate of a Westminster decision about money in the pockets of millions of people, including many who have little or – and perhaps – try to deal with physical or mental health issues.
I was told that last week or so, the Ministry of Labor and pensions were skipped with the recipients of concern – the meaning of beneficiaries of the benefits and their families from being affected, without knowing the details of what the government planned.
He asks a question for both government and journalists.
How responsible for the threads of ministers ’plans to go out for more than a week, without being the full picture, is clear, given the focus of anxiety, it was possible to excite among those who feel dependent on the luxury they receive?
The government wants to determine its argument for several days and want journalists to know what they are already planning.
But the clear result is a wave of anxiety, and it may justify some of them, some no.
To date, after advertising, the complexity of people’s life faces a complex benefits system, which is now changing again.
It may take some time before people know how they could be affected and even longer before they are already.
The government’s plans argue that it is completely in line with the traditions of work.
They point out the beginnings of the union movement plans and the advantages of contributing, as people widely prepared what they paid.
They argue that the creeping normalization of distress for some, including many who believe that it can succeed and benefit from the work, is what he seeks to take here.
They hope to insist on protecting those who suffer from the most severe health conditions, who are never able to work, can persuade more advantages and process of pushing others to work.
It is an argument that they know that it needs to be made, because others in the labor movement feel that this is inconsistent with everything they represent.
Some other things are worth reference.
One of the main reasons that there is a lot that we do not know about the government’s plans is that the evaluation of the effect has not yet been published.
How many people are expected to get less benefits? Who are they? Where are they? What are their circumstances?
The ministers insist that they must wait until the consultant’s spring statement within one week to address this matter because the independent budget office places its numbers at that time, and all this is besieged in that.
But this adds to the feeling of uncertainty.
What has become clear is that hundreds of thousands of people will be affected by these changes, and the largest component of the tax motivated changes will come from changing eligibility to pay personal independence.
Another thing worth reference: None of this will already reduce the benefits bill – will continue to rise, albeit at the same speed it could have been done.
What raises another question: Is the interest system sustainable after these changes, or can this government or future conclude more necessary discounts?