Welfare System Reforms Are Fair, Says Iain Duncan Smith

Changes to the UK's welfare system are fair, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has insisted, as some of the new measures came into effect. Mr Duncan Smith said it was about restructuring the culture so "people find work always pays".  "The reality is that successive governments have come in and when they've had a problem they've cut welfare bills and then later on they've ballooned again," he told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. "What I'm trying to do... is to change the process so that we end up restructuring the culture so that people find that work always pays. It doesn't right now." When asked if he could live on £53 a week, in response to a question posed by a working benefits claimant, Mr Duncan Smith said: "If I had to I would." Read more on the BBC website.