THE government of an independent Scotland would have to raise taxes or cut services to maintain welfare pay-ments, Iain Duncan Smith said as he defended his Universal Credit plan, which he said would make 100,000 Scots better off.
THE government of an independent Scotland would have to raise taxes or cut services to maintain welfare pay-ments, Iain Duncan Smith said as he defended his Universal Credit plan, which he said would make 100,000 Scots better off.
STARK CHOICE: Iain Duncan Smith said an independent Scotland would have to raise taxes or cut services to maintain welfare payments.
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Michael Settle UK Political Editor
As the Coalition came under fire for considering linking hikes in benefit payments to average pay rather than inflation, the Work and Pensions Secretary – in Glasgow for a welfare reform conference – defended his plan to replace a string of benefits with a single payout called Universal Credit, stressing how "only the Union could offer this sort of wholesale reform".
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