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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/pm-to-unveil-welfare-reform-plans.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="David Cameron will warn that people can no longer be trusted to claim only the benefits they need" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-pm-to-unveil-welfare-reform-plans.jpg" alt="David Cameron will warn that people can no longer be trusted to claim only the benefits they need"/></a></p>
<p>David Cameron will warn that people can no longer be trusted to claim only the benefits they need as he unveils radical welfare reforms</p>
<p>A &#8220;standardised&#8221; system of sickness and unemployment handouts was sustainable after the war because people felt &#8220;shame&#8221; when they abused it, according to the Prime Minister.</p>
<p>But perverse incentives introduced over the years have undermined aspiration and &#8220;collective responsibility&#8221;, and left the taxpayer with a multi-billion pound burden.</p>
<p>Mr Cameron is to launch the Welfare Reform Bill at an event in London with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.</p>
<p>The proposals include replacing most existing benefits with a universal credit &#8211; designed to ensure people are always better off when they are employed, and close the loophole where some couples receive more living apart.</p>
<p>Those who refuse to take up job offers face losing their handouts for up to three years, and there will be tougher sanctions for fraud.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister will also announce moves to tackle the UK&#8217;s &#8220;sicknote culture&#8221;, pointing out that 300,000 people leave work and claim sickness benefits every year.</p>
<p>The Government&#8217;s national director for health and work, Dame Carol Black, and David Frost of the British Chambers of Commerce are to lead a review of the problem.</p>
<p>Setting out his argument for shaking up welfare, Mr Cameron is expected to say the system was originally based on a &#8220;collective culture of responsibility&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;More than today, people&#8217;s self-image was not just about their personal status or success,&#8221; he will insist.</p>
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