This TUC report Is Social Security Spending Really Out Of Control? compares social security spending over the course of this parliament with the government’s original forecast in 2010, as well as taking a longer term look at welfare spending over the last three decades.
The report examines the main areas of social security spending - which is set to be £9.2bn a year more than originally forecast by 2014-15 – and finds that rising in-work poverty, caused by real wage falls and the concentration of new jobs in low paying industries, is the main cause of over-spending.
Download Is social security spending really out of control? report [PDF]
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