Single state benefit proposal bodes well for protection industy

It also includes proposals to force those benefit claimants currently out of work for health reasons back into employment. The 21st century welfare paper includes a proposal to scrap all the present out of work benefits and tax credits and replace them with a universal credit. This would bode well for a suggestion, put forward by Edmund Tirbutt at the Protection Review conference and reported by COVER, for greater industry involvement with Government. Tirbutt's scheme included the need for a single state benefit with a top-up income protection option administered as a public-privat...