The Welfare System

Welfare system is started by department of Work and Pensions agencies all over the country,  they have made the strategies and aimed at:

• people who receive benefit
• people who need help to get work
• disabled people
• older people
• people who get the State Pension.

The Department for Work and Pensions is very significant for the government, they are responsible for giving the benefits to workers and it is the most expensive system. For instance, the women at 60 or the men at 65 that they could get relatively low state retirement pensions. 

The welfare system also bring some benefits to particular people, for example, according to directgov (2010) ,"There are two separate amounts, with a higher amount for your eldest (or only) child. You get £20.30 a week for your eldest child and £13.40 a week for each of your other children."

Reference:

 Directgov.com (2010) What is Child Benefit?. Available at: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/ChildBenefitandChildTrustFund/Childbenefits/Gettingstarted/ChildBenefitandwhoqualifies/DG_073770 (Accessed: 21/05/11).

DWP.gov.uk (2011) Homepage. Available at: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/. (Accessed: 21/05/11).