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Joseph Rowntree Foundation publishes report on the impact of welfare reform on poverty and exclusion, criticising DWP for failing to assess the overall impact of its welfare reforms.

What: Joseph Rowntree Foundation publishes the report Monitoring poverty and social exclusion (2012), which criticises DWP for failing to assess the overall impact of its welfare reforms.

Why significant: The report shows that “welfare cuts so far are likely to hit low-income households more than once, through changes to both income-related and housing benefits. Changes to disability benefit could mean low-income disabled people being hit even harder.”

Citations

'Monitoring poverty and social exclusion', Aldridge, Kenway, MacInnes and Parekh, 2012