The Department for Work and Pensions welfare reform green paper, No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility, also proposed allowing child maintenance payments to be overlooked when calculating a parents entitlement to benefit.
The green paper outlines plans to abolish incapacity benefits and income support. They would be replaced by employment and support allowance (ESA), for people who can’t work for medical reasons, and jobseekers’ allowance (JSA) for everyone who is able to work.
In addition to lone parents being expected to look for work, the paper also proposes that partners of benefit recipients should “take active steps to look for work once their youngest child is seven years old”.
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