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The "Pay to Stay" measure, which will form part of the Chancellor's attempts to slash the Government's welfare bill by £12bn, will scrap benefits for some 350,000 people who live in housing association and local authority properties.
Both reflect a disillusion with the scrapping of the education maintenance allowance, the tripling of university tuition fees, the proposal to scrap benefits for those under 21, and attitudes to young people summed up by former Tory cabinet minister Lord Tebbit's view that young unemployed people should be made to pull ragwort from roadsides in return for state support.
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A family with two children and a single earner on average pay faces an effective marginal tax rate of 61%, one of the highest figures in the OECD.It is not, the prime minister explains, an easy problem to solve, because the two simple solutions ending means-testing for benefits or scrapping benefits altogether both have severe disadvantages.
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The 2017 manifesto has policies that could help people in these situations: they have promised to scrap the benefits sanction regime and the bedroom tax, outlaw zero hour contracts, reinstate housing benefit for under-21s and re-shape Universal Credit.
The row over the impact of the cap on working families has heightened pressure on Mr Cameron to commit to scrap universal benefits for pensioners.
Finland is looking to scrap individual welfare benefits and replace them with a universal basic income available to all Finns, regardless of how much they earn.
For ministers shuttling this week from one studio interview to the next, the decision to scrap child benefit altogether for households where at least one person is earning £60,000 or more whilst simultaneously capping benefit increases by 1% is a twin symbol of fair play.
Leaked DWP papers showed options included scrapping several benefits and taxing disability benefits.
Greens Propose to pay everyone a citizen's income, scrapping all benefits and replacing them with a guaranteed basic income for all.
Labour can perhaps console itself that just 28% of northern voters express support for one Conservative idea - to scrap housing benefit altogether for under 25s.
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