£25bn welfare cuts? Hilton’s plan is absolute nonsense

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Even The Sun, the ultimate scrounger bashers, thinks Steve Hilton’s latest idea is “daft”, writes Richard Darlington, head of news at the IPPR.

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Richard Darlington is head of news at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)

Even The Sun, the ultimate scrounger bashers, thinks Steve Hilton’s latest idea is “daft”.

On page 2 today they quote a source close to Iain Duncan Smith saying the idea to cut another £25bn from the welfare bill is “absolute nonsense”, adding:

“Steve’s gone totally rogue.”

Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott says:

“This is wacky even by Hilton’s standards.”

But let’s take a moment to test the hypothesis. If you really did want to get £25bn cut from the welfare bill, how would you actually do it? Try and do-it-yourself.

Here are your options:

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See also:

• Breaking down the benefits bill 21 Mar 2012

 

Even if you entirely scrapped all out of work benefits – jobseeker’s allowance, plus income support and ESA – you’d come up £4bn short. You’d have to almost halve the state pension – not really a vote winner. Or you could entirely scrap Child Tax Credit and Child Benefit or Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit.

Like The Sun says, daft. Bye, bye Steve.

 

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41 Responses to “£25bn welfare cuts? Hilton’s plan is absolute nonsense”

  1. Foxy52

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  2. PCS North Staffs

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  3. Martin Steel

    Frm earlier: £25bn welfare cuts? Hilton’s plan is absolute nonsense, writes @IPPR’s @RDarlo: http://t.co/tjEo7IqB

  4. Richard Darlington

    Friday teaser on @leftfootfwd – Can you cut £25bn from the welfare bill? Try & do-it-yourself: http://t.co/qS6dcyjD

  5. BevR

    RT @leftfootfwd: £25bn welfare cuts? Hilton’s plan is absolute nonsense http://t.co/Q7ENOR26

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