IAIN Duncan Smith has set out new plans for getting the long term unemployed back into work.
The Woodford Green MP, and former Tory leader, has called for the benefits system to be made simpler and for it to be easier for people to earn more from work than they do on the dole.
The ideas - which were published in a report by think tank The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) - advocate limiting the number of benefits on offer to two from the current 51, and subsidising people in low paid jobs to stay in work.
Mr Duncan Smith, who set up the CSJ, said the £2.7bn plan was designed to rebuild the "work habit" among the long term jobless - and believes it could get 600,000 extra households back into employment.
The report was welcomed by Tory leader David Cameron, but has not yet been accepted as official party policy.
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