Having been in the welfare system at various points in my life I can easily imagine that the bureaucracy must be expensive to upkeep. There are numerous comple

Having been in the welfare system at various points in my life I can easily imagine that the bureaucracy must be expensive to upkeep. There are numerous complex rules, all of which need to be checked and double checked at regular intervals. A basic minimum income would at a stroke sweep a way a large army of box-ticking officials and end the pernicious moralising and absurd punishments for not adhering precisely to whimsical rules.