Labour Could Link Housing To Employment

The Labour Party is looking to overhaul its welfare policies to link benefit payments and access to social housing to the contribution people make to society.  The party is looking at a system under which claimants receive higher benefit payments if they have been employed for longer, and have therefore paid more in national insurance.  The contributory principle, under which people pay into the system and then receive benefits when they are in need, was at the centre of the Beveridge report, which inspired the formation of social security after the Second World War.  Read more on Inside Housing.