Benefits system 'encourages lying'  Britain's benefits system
encourages claimants to lie and cheat to secure payments, a
former welfare minister will claim.  Labour's Frank Field, who
has worked as a poverty adviser to the coalition, will warn
paying out based on need brings out the "worst side of human
nature".  Mr Field, who was told to "think the unthinkable"
while serving as welfare minister under Tony Blair only to
quickly leave government after clashes with colleagues over the
results, will call on his party to back radical reforms that
would mean the state paid claimants based mainly on their
contributions.  "As we now have a welfare state based on meeting
need, this encourages individuals, not unreasonably, to try to
ensure that they qualify under this guise. It therefore pays to
lie about one's earnings, to cheat, or to be inactive," he will
tell the Institute of Economic Affairs.  "The worst side of
human nature is encouraged, the best is penalised.  "The next
Labour government must commit itself t