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A reduction in legal aid work payments was a key part of the reform package.
But to deliver them Mr Hunt wants to cut weekend work payments, rather than pay more to recruit extra doctors or to maintain top-up pay.
Mr. Smith, a career civilian employee, did his duty: He confronted KBR and warned that unless they supplied credible justification, he would levy penalties of 15percentt on future work payments while also, needless to say, blocking any performance bonuses for the company.
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Mr. Jacobs said that while his hourly rate was $300 for criminal defense work, payment for more complicated cases -- "which just about any case involving a gangster is going to be" -- is negotiated.
As expected, reactions to this work payment have been mixed.
One way of achieving the £12bn goal could be by reducing the £38bn cost of out-of-work payments to working-age families, for example by cutting entitlements to a third of the recipients, according to John Hills, director of the centre for analysis of social exclusion at the London School of Economics.
The government does not deny that in-work payments replacing tax credits will be lower for some new claimants, including those whose family circumstances change.
More importantly, the sharp cuts in tax credits and other in-work payments Osborne announced as part of his plans to save £12bn from the welfare bill are likely to cut families' incomes.
"I would particularly give a really strong warning to the Secretary of State: any attacks on unsocial hours, weekend working payments, would be strongly resisted," he said.
Mr Duncan Smith is setting up policies he says will make work more profitable than claiming unemployment, including a cap on out-of-work payments and creating a universal credit to replace several existing payments for those in low-paid work.
Government proposals to consolidate existing benefits into a single out-of-work and in-work payment will be unveiled in a white paper on Thursday.
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