Laura Bambrick

It is.

So if we go ahead with this proposal, there are a couple of stated reasons for doing this.

The first one is really to simplify the system for people, because with each payment comes its own sets of rules and requirements.

So, for example, the work and family payment, you have to work a minimum number of hours to be eligible for the partial job seekers benefit.

If you work more than three days a week, you're ineligible.

So this work and family payment would simplify the system.

And in simplifying it, the idea would be that it would improve take up because the feeling is lots of people aren't taking up their entitlement anymore.

to these payments because it's so complex.

And also that it would remove anomalies.

So you can have two people working the same hours, earning the same amount of money, having the same circumstances, same number of children, but depending on what payment they're on, they're getting different amounts of money.

So it would remove those anomalies.

But the main reason, the main reason for this

is to make work pay.

So that's the big flagship reason.

And how they're going to do that is the new rules would encourage part-time workers to work more hours, but it would also remove obstacles for employers.

They'd give them more flexibility around changing shift rotas.

They wouldn't be tied to that.

You can't give somebody...

hours beyond three days.

Otherwise, they lose all of their entitlements.