Welfare plan 'may cause poverty'
21 Nov 2008 10:56 GMT

Ministers should rethink or delay plans to force lone parents, disabled people and the long-term jobless to seek work, a senior government adviser has said.

Sir Richard Tilt said reforms in Wales, England and Scotland could "push people into poverty" as unemployment rises.

Under the plans lone parents will have to look for work once their youngest child is 12 or face losing benefits.

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