He says that the States should be ashamed of a report which says that benefit rates are ‘stacked greatly in favour of guarding against welfare dependency to the detriment of protecting against social exclusion’.
‘Social Protection in Jersey: A Comparative Study’, commissioned by the Employment and Social Security Committee, was published on Friday.
It compares welfare statistics from Jersey with those of European nations and concludes that while poor people in Jersey are better off than those in the UK the rate of poverty is similar to the European average.
The report, written by University of Nottingham doctoral student Stella Hart, also states that Jersey spends less of its GDP on social protection and welfare than anywhere else in Europe.
