Give them welfare assistance or universal medical care.
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Torfaen is one of six areas where the Department of Work and Pensions is running what it calls "demonstration projects" ahead of the introduction of the UK government's flagship welfare reform of Universal Credit in the autumn.
Mr Cameron restated the case in favour of benefit reform as the UK government prepares to launch the first trial of the universal credit - a new system for making welfare payments - on Monday.
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They will still be pretty rich, and their welfare services will remain more generous and universal than elsewhere.
The Universal Credit is intended to make the benefits and welfare system much simpler and improve incentives to work.
Ministers are now embarking on the daunting task of simplifying a tangle of welfare entitlements and tax breaks into a single universal benefit.
At a stroke, this demolishes the long tradition of universal benefits, which was intended to secure general support for welfare.
He also said he would speak with Westminster's Welfare Reform Minister, Lord Freud, to ensure universal credit was "better tailored to Northern Ireland customers".
The bill aims to simplify the welfare system by replacing all benefits with a single universal credit from 2013 and replaces the DLA with personal independence payments (PIPs).
Speaking before the work and pensions secretary, welfare reform minister Lord Freud said that under the universal credit there would be a single point of entry into the benefits system for everyone.
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The bill simplifies the welfare system by replacing existing benefits with a single, universal credit from 2013.
The bill is designed to simplify the welfare system by replacing existing benefits with a single, universal credit from 2013.
The Welfare Reform Bill aims to simplify the welfare system by replacing existing benefits with a single, universal credit from 2013 and introduces tougher sanctions for those who refuse work.
The bill aims to simplify the welfare system by introducing replace existing benefits with a single, universal credit from 2013.
But he said the welfare-to-work programme and a plan for a Universal Benefit payments, due to start coming into effect in 2013, would succeed in getting more people into employment.
For example during the party's welfare review, should a One Nation Labour Party defend the principle of universal benefits - or would its concern for the poor cost, for example, better off pensioners their winter fuel allowance?
Mr Duncan Smith is leading an overhaul of the welfare system that will see a number of benefits replaced by a new universal credit that is designed, he says, "to make work pay at each and every hour".
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The MPs criticise the decision to change council tax benefit at a time when the entire welfare system is being overhauled - and many individual benefits consolidated into a single Universal Credit.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said before that universal benefits for the elderly might have to go, but in a recent speech on welfare the prime minister ruled out ending them within this Parliament.
Universal credit - being introduced by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith this year - aims to simplify the welfare system by replacing a number of existing working-age benefits, including the income-based jobseeker's allowance, income-related employment support allowance, housing benefit, working tax credit, child tax credit and income support.
The minister was leading a debate on the UK government's Welfare Reform Act which will replace a range of other benefits, including housing benefit, with a single universal credit.
The prime minister again promised to honour his pledge not to cut universal benefits for pensioners - such as free bus passes and winter fuel payments - effectively ringfencing this part of the welfare budget.
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