1.   Among the issues considered were homelessness, unemployment, children and young people in poverty and the benefits systems.

2.   The proposed method of operation for the benefits system will cause enormous problems for families.

3.   The vital secondary legislation on the benefits system has not yet been published.

4.   There is now an overwhelming case for the Government to undertake an urgent investigation into simplifying the structure of the benefits system.

5.   We have steadily improved the coverage and generosity of the benefits system.

6.   Labour has condemned proposals to change the state benefits system which would see child benefit payments being replaced by child tax allowances.

7.   She said there was already an element of compulsion in the benefit system.

8.   This explains the compensation and benefits system, and will help those who need to make a claim.

9.   Bush also continued to attack Gore on Social Security, even as he offered a defense against new criticism of his own proposal to fix the retirement benefit system.

10.   Just last December, just last December I signed a bill to strengthen our national pension benefit guarantee system.