checks for those on Disability Living Allowance etc…In this weeks Sunday Telegraph the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith announced that he would bring forward proposals to make the workforce more mobile.
Firstly, in order to tackcle the effects of the ‘Benefits Trap’ he plans to address the problems caused by the harsh withdrawal of benefits once someone secures a job. IDS wants to remove this disincentive.
Secondly, – and the most headline grabbing is- “In Britain we have workforces that are locked to areas and the result of that is we have over five and a half million people of working age who simply don’t do a job,”
Iain Duncan Smith’s plans will focus on incentives rather than compulsion
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Thirdly, IDS also announced that he would like to move elderly couples whose children had left home and who no longer needed a two or three bedroom house into smaller residence to make way for couples with young children.
See our report last week
Is this an opportunity for providers?
I am not sure that this policy will see the full light of day! but just in case it does; this may be an opportunity for providers working in and with the Housing sector to begin looking at how they could provide support and assistance in this area.
