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What to make of Labour’s attack on the Social Fund?

Do James Purnell and Kitty Ussher read consultation documents before they get sent out? I ask because of Labour’s proposals to start charging interest rates of up to 27% on loans from the Social Fund, which currently makes interest-free loans to individuals on benefits who urgently need money to buy large items such as cookers and beds. …

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  • Roland
    @Peter - ” it is better off spending that money on infrastructure projects to give the unemployed jobs, rather than giving them benefits.” It is ...
  • Peter Martin
    @ Charlie, There's no need to get out the Ouija board. :-) Keynes wrote quite extensively on Economics but reading through his General Theory of Employme...
  • Nonconformistradical
    There's a TV program - shown recently - called 'Flood: When the Thames drowned London'. About the actual 1928 flood - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Thames_...
  • Cassie
    Well put. 'Have grace and listen to each other' would make a wonderful slogan everywhere, by the way....
  • Peter Davies
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