But Tory welfare policy has not, until recently, taken seriously the possibility that many of the long-term unemployed were not looking for work, and so did not deserve benefit.
Yet these very people will soon have to make difficult judgements about whether people have complied sufficiently with the new regime of work-focused interviews and action plans to deserve benefit payments.
We deserve benefits like that".
Now we appear to have the "deserving benefits claimant" and "undeserving benefits claimant".
Companies such as Atos and Capita are paid to carry out what are, frankly, pretty degrading government tests on sick and disabled people to see if they really do deserve benefits.
Persuading campus officials that postdocs deserve benefits and equitable treatment can seem an insurmountable task.
Everyone deserves benefits".
That chimes with welfare chauvinism more broadly across society the old argument of who deserves benefits and who does not an issue that, equally, has come to the fore more recently.
That chimes with welfare chauvinism more broadly across society – the old argument of who deserves benefits and who does not – an issue that, equally, has come to the fore more recently.
And so racial views were not about characteristics or individual traits of black people or immigrants or what have you, but rather about how much they deserve benefits, if they should work harder and not blame society for their troubles, if they're being discriminated against.
He clearly felt, not unreasonably, that he deserved the benefit of the doubt.
