Growing call for change.

Citizens Advice* is calling on government to change the focus of welfare policy from moving people off benefits to helping them into “secure and sustainable work”.

Now a respected social policy research group is making a similar recommendation.

In its new strategy We can solve UK poverty Joseph Rowntree Foundation says government should:

“Change the high-level incentive for employment support services so that they are focused on delivering high employment and earnings, rather than simply moving people off benefits.”

Citizens Advice Welfare Reform and Working People

Here at Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead we’re pleased such an authoritative voice is also making the case for reducing the financial insecurity that underlies so many of society’s problems.

* In Welfare Reform and Working People, part of a new research project on income security.