1. Who should receive the working-age “welfare”? FES3 TRAN HA TRAN ANH
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Who should receive the working-age “welfare”?
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2. TABLE OF CONTENT Introduction Context Causes Effects Solutions
Conclusion
References

3. Introduction
Working-age “welfare” is the benefits (money) which is weekly supplied by the UK government with people who is in working-age including Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Incapacity Benefit (IB) or Income Support (IS), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), and Disability Benefits (DLA). (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2010)

4. Context
According to The Guardian (2013), 20.3 million families are obtaining some kind of welfare (64% of all families), of those people, 8.7 million are pensioners in the UK.
Lots of people who are in working-age not only have not worked but also received the 'benefit' from out-of –work.
Introduce new welfare system which is called Universal Credit.

5. Causes
The Global financial Crisis increases the number of unemployment (The Guardian, 2011).
People takes advantages of the current system by not looking for work (The Guardian, 2013).

6. Effects The new ‘welfare’ system will:
Tackle the causes of poverty (The Center for Social Justice, 2013)
Affect the development of children in poor families (Zaslow, 1994).
The size of families where no one had ever worked almost doubled from 184,000 in 1997 to 352,000 in 2010.

7. Solutions Introducing Universal Credit
Introducing Personal Independence Payment
Introducing a cap on the amount of benefits working age people can receive
Reassessing incapacity benefits recipients for Employment and Support Allowance
Improving the Work Capability Assessment
Making sure housing support is fair and affordable
(The Department for Work and Pensions, 2013)

8. Conclusion
Objective and subjective causes  positive and negative effects
Who should receive the working-age “welfare”?

9. References
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2010), Working-age ‘welfare’: who gets it, why, and what it costs, viewed 1 July 2013, <
South Lanarkshire Council (2012), Benefits are changing with welfare reform – What is working age, viewed 5 July 2013, <
The Guardian (2011), Global financial crisis: five key stages , view 7 July 2013, <
The Guardian (2013), Benefits in Britain: separating the facts from the fiction, view 6 July 2013, <
The Poverty Site (2011), Working-age out-of-work benefits recipients, viewed 1 July 2013, <
The Telegraph (2011), UK employment by age: Which groups are losing more jobs?, viewed 1 July 2013, <
The Telegraph (2012), Overhaul the benefits system, says David Cameron, view 8 July 2013, <