The more work welfare people do, goes the theory, the more respected they will be.
But it could be used for child care, job training and other supports for working welfare recipients.
Cutting in-work tax credits would sink the supposed pro-work welfare reforms, which leaves support for housing and disabled people looking like the principal targets.
He said EU migrants working in Britain with a couple of children at home are currently able to get effectively £8,000 a year of in-work welfare.
"With the back-to-work welfare reforms, more and more children need the educational services while their mothers are at their jobs".
When we hear the chancellor on the cost of housing benefit, in-work welfare benefits and child benefit, this week, remember the tax gap.
This meant that during difficult times Londoners needed to rely heavily on in-work welfare support and housing benefit, which continued to be scaled back by national government.
The results also imply that raising the costs of out-of-work welfare might also promote labour force participation.
In the public sector, work welfare practices account for a higher proportion of HRM systems (relatively) than that of firms, so the benefit policies themselves are almost equal to employees in the public sector.
The poor, for example, are moochers who refuse to work, welfare queens, and rarely living as "traditional families," so they deserve a few more kicks in the gut.
