Benefit cap ‘harming vulnerable families’
Highly vulnerable households risk being harmed by the Government’s “populist” benefit cap, the woman appointed by David Cameron to get families back into work warned.
Entrepreneur Emma Harrison was tasked by the Prime Minister in December 2010 to lead efforts to return hundreds of individuals from troubled families to employment.
But the founder of employment contractor A4E, cautioned that the proposed £26,000 annual limit could be too crude a tool.
While she accepted the need for reform, she added that she was concerned parents of severely disabled children could lose out.
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