The Future State of Welfare with John Humphrys

John Humphrys travels the country to talk to the people with the most to lose people on incapacity benefit the longterm unemployed people on housing benefit lone parents Are they prepared for the harsher future ahead He returns to the area where he was born Splott in Cardiff to show how attitudes to work and welfare have changed in his lifetime When he was growing up a man who didnt work was regarded as a pariah today one in four of the workingage population in Splott is on some form of benefit John also visits America where 15 years ago they embarked on what has been called a welfare revolution Is this more punitive model where the UK heading He looks at specific reforms the Government has in mind or has begun already