Search results for ‘jobseekers allowance’
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FactCheck: Why leaked A4E data suggests Work Programme isn’t working
The background The government launched the Work Programme in June last year, calling it the biggest welfare-to-work initiative in UK history. Is it working? With more than 2.5 million people unemployed, there’s a huge amount riding on that question. And the government now says it wants to export the same kind of model – outsourcing…
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£46m payout for A4e – despite missing Work Programme targets
A4e received £46m from the taxpayer in the first year of the government’s flagship Work Programme – despite failing to meet minimum targets for getting the long-term unemployed into work.
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FactCheck: IDS’s work and benefits claims put to the test
Iain Duncan Smith believes his benefits cap is already driving people into work. FactCheck hasn’t found much evidence to suggest that to be the case.
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FactCheck: Is the Work Programme worse than nothing?
Even if the government did absolutely nothing to help them, a certain percentage of people would find work off their own bat. The Work Programme can only be said to be “working” – or having any effect at all – if providers are doing better than this “non-intervention” rate.
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Unemployment falls for third month in a row
The number of people out of work drops again, despite the recession and the crisis in the eurozone, but claims for unemployment benefit rise.
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FactCheck: Has youth unemployment really gone up 900 per cent?
“The idea is that Labour used to cook the books by giving tens of thousands of young people a temporary government-subsidised job through the Future Jobs Fund.”
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FactCheck: minister wrong on immigration
Immigration Minister Damian Green has claimed that tens of thousands of people who come to the UK for marriage and are eligible for benefits claim them. FactCheck tries to find them.
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Job creation alone ‘will not solve unemployment’
The UK creates over five million jobs every year, but only boosting demand for labour will get the unemployed into jobs, economist Jonathan Portes tells the Channel 4 Jobs Report.
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Regional jobs blog: Liverpool
Carole Crosby Liverpool Chamber of Commerce deputy chief executive, tells Channel 4 News that companies are expecting to recruit within the next three months – and why a government enterprise scheme has been such a success.
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Government backs down on work experience sanctions
The government announces changes to its policy of docking young people’s benefits if they leave work experience placements after the first week.
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‘No benefits if you don’t work for free at Maplins’
Channel 4 News finds another young person with a letter revealing his local Jobcentre threatened to stop his benefits if he refused unpaid work.
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FactCheck: Work experience or slave labour?
“Much like the French Foreign Legion, the scheme is “entirely voluntary” to enter, but there may be an element of compulsion later on if you decide to leave.”
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Tesco offers paid placements after ‘exploitation’ claims
As more companies reconsider the government’s unpaid work experience scheme, Tesco decides to offer paid placements – and advises ministers to remove the sanctions for participants who drop out.
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Ad for job with no pay a mistake says Tesco
The supermarket chain Tesco has said a job it advertised for a night shift worker with no wages was a “mistake” after a deluge of criticism.
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FactCheck Q&A: How many migrants are on the dole?
“Some of the 371,000 might have made substantial contributions to the exchequer through tax and National Insurance deductions for many years, and only claimed benefits for a short time.”