Justine Greening: Benefits changes must 'make work pay'

29 June 2012 Last updated at 05:41 ET Help

The welfare system does not always make it pay to work, admitted Transport Secretary Justine Greening, who said government reforms such as the Universal Credit were designed to address this.

She was responding to claims from the Question Time audience that people on benefits could enjoy a lifestyle as good as many of those at work.

Watch more on the Question Time website.

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