Work, welfare and debt in precarious times

James, Deborah ORCID: 0000-0002-4274-197X (2025) Work, welfare and debt in precarious times. British Politics and Policy at LSE (17 Oct 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The conditions the state places on those receiving welfare are often too rigid to reflect the malleable circumstances of recipients’ work and private lives. Deborah James describes how people can end up in enormous amounts of debt to the state when it – many times wrongly – decides welfare beneficiaries violated some of those rigid conditions. “Clawing back” what is rightfully theirs can be an agonising process battling the state and other debt collectors.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Anthropology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2025 13:24
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2025 13:24
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130211

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