Tag Archives: jobseeker’s allowance

Thousands of disabled people to be forced into unpaid work

27/03/2011 – 12:20 pm

Thousands of disabled people are set to be forced to do unpaid work in order to continue receiving their out-of-work benefits, despite the government’s own benefits advice body saying the scheme should not go ahead.
The government introduced new rules this week which will give Jobcentre Plus advisers the power to force claimants of jobseeker’s allowance [...]

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Welfare reform bill: Government could be set for two U-turns

22/02/2011 – 10:23 am

The government could be set for major climb-downs over two of its most controversial cuts to benefits claimed by disabled people.
As the government launched its new welfare reform bill, work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith confirmed that plans to cut housing benefit by 10 per cent for anyone claiming jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) for more [...]

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