Taking such big cuts in income is difficult, as Paul Warren, from the Community trade union, who sits on the SSI taskforce, explains.
Jared Bernstein, then chief economist to vice president Joe Biden and the intellectual force behind Barack Obama's Middle Class Taskforce, was explaining the crisis unfolding among middle income Americans.
Martin Lewis, the personal finance expert who led a taskforce to help explain the new tuition loan scheme, attacked the decision to backdate the change to 2012, announced by the chancellor as part of his spending review.
A member of the taskforce provided an illustration of this happening where a manager had gathered his employees together and passionately explained, the background, the reasons for and opportunities of the service charter.
One of the members of the taskforce who had spent a lot of time and energy on personally informing patients about the service charter explained: 'It is personally explained to new patients what a service charter is, what our promises are, why we are doing this, what the patient can do when we do not deliver and that we offer small compensation in these cases'.
Gen Paul Kennedy, commander of US Marine Taskforce, explained to the BBC's Jonathan Head the military's role in distributing aid to those in need across the country.
The study taskforce mailed invitations to all hospital superintendents explaining the purpose of the survey.
Explaining his decision to leave the taskforce, which was introduced in 2013, Bernstein said: "I've resigned for two reasons.
The Arab Taskforce for Obesity and Physical Activity will conduct a series of workshops in Arab countries to explain the strategy and particular areas of application, depending on the specific social, economic, and political situation of each country.
"I was holding down three jobs [he has only just stepped down as national clinical director for children and chair of the Department of Health's children's taskforce], then setting up the nuts and bolts of the post," he explains.
The paper's actual April fool is in fact the resolutely unfunny "Government to appoint 'Lights Tsar' to get Britain switching off", which explains how "ministers are stepping up efforts to cut Britain's energy usage ahead of a looming power crunch, with the creation of a taskforce charged with switching off the country's lights".
