Oh really.
UP to half of all single mothers do not want to work and simply will not take jobs, a report has found.
The analysis said Labour will never achieve its goal of persuading large numbers of lone parents to abandon a life on benefits because a huge proportion of them simply refuse to do so.
And why should they bother to? They are already employed by the government via the taxpayer (the majority of which are men). Plus they can be with their children.
The study, produced by the Department for Work and Pensions, suggests much of the £3.4billion spent on attempts to encourage lone mothers to find jobs over the past ten years has been wasted.
Four out of ten lone mothers, the report added, say they do want to take jobs ‘but only at some point in the future’.
New Labour’s efforts to reduce poverty have centred on single parents since Tony Blair won the 1997 election.
What that means is, Communist Labour has encouraged benefits for single parents, which frequently outweigh benefits for couples, essentially bribing parents (mainly women) to become single for the additional tax credits.
As Chancellor, Gordon Brown devised the tax credits benefit system which currently pumps £16billion a year into the pockets of lower-paid working people and which is heavily biased towards helping single mothers.
Of course it is. The majority of single parents are single mothers, mainly because the law favours passing the children to the mother, regardless of whether the father is more suitable or not. Which studies suggest he probably would be.
But remember the corporate government is interested in breaking up the family, not promoting it. Families represent social power centers, and communism abhors any form of people power.
Some £3.4billion has gone on the New Deal for Lone Parents, a welfare-to-work scheme meant to help single mothers into jobs.
However, recent figures showed that only around a fifth of those joining the New Deal find work that lasts more than a few weeks.
The new analysis, carried out for the DWP by Andrew Thomas of Insite Research and Consulting, examined ‘work focused interviews’ which are a key part of the New Deal package.
Mothers must attend an interview if they wish to continue claiming the main benefit for the workless, income support.
Freedom eh? You are a slave to the State if you are wholly dependent on benefits. And yes, this is the way the government wants it. Remember what I keep on saying. Feminism helps to destroy the family by turning women against men, men are ostracised from their children, the corporate government steps in with benefits, and with female friendly laws (Equal Opportunies/ Affirmative Action anyone?) and the females ally themselves with the government, as they are now the provider.
Men no longer have their families to protect and care for. Their work ethic drops, crime and drug taking go up, single mother children grow up never knowing a strong family and the problems are compounded. You get social chaos, a weak society is one that is easy to control and manipulate.
The report said that although some mothers who are looking or willing to look for work derive some benefit from the interviews, most see going to one as a routine part of claiming benefits.
In spite of ‘additional support premiums, incentives, transitional benefits, information on childcare and other elements that have been added piecemeal to the programme over the past five years,’ the report found little progress had been made.
Interviews ’still appear to be unable to make significant headway against the firm decision of many to choose not to work’.
They’re just jumping through the hoops necessary to claim benefits.
Ministers are understood to have discussed over the summer a system which would withdraw benefits from lone mothers who refuse to work.
But Mr Brown told the TUC conference earlier this month that the main change in Government policy would be to offer single parents even more incentives and extra benefits.
These will include £40 a week in taxpayer-subsidised pay – £60 a week in London – for the first year in work, £400 in training allowances, and a rule to allow single mothers to continue receiving state out-of-work benefits for their first six weeks in a job.
Yay, more benefits for single mothers!
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