Poverty

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What is absolute poverty?
Poverty as a lack of resources to maintain physical efficiency to survive
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What are the three dominant discourses of poverty?
Moral underclass, redistributionist and social integrationist
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What is the post war social security system?
Unemployment support and pensions received in return for national insurance contribution
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Who’s policy was ‘making work pay’
New Labour
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What is the maximum benefit sanction for non-compliance?
Withdrawal of benefits for three years
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What does universal credit replace?
Income benefits, working tax credit, child tax credit and housing benefits
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What is the benefit cap for single people without children?
18,2000 per year
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