Sentences with phrase «benefit claimants»

Nearly half of benefit claimants hit by the cap on welfare payments are now doing more to find work, according to a poll.

The government is offering a cash reward for the safe return of two computer discs containing the personal details of 25 million child benefit claimants.

At present it appears to be for benefit claimants, the unemployed, immigrants and those who who are state employed.

$ 15 multiplied (x) by the total number of unique statutory accident benefit claimants in the calendar year before the year in which the application is made.

And so begins an attempt to link the actions of a few with benefit claimants as a whole.

In a bid to reduce unemployment further, the government is working with 250 businesses in Local Employment Partnerships, which will aim to get benefit claimants off welfare and into work.

The poorer someone is, the more likely they are to spend, so taking money from public sector workers and benefits claimants hurts demand.

The number of benefit claimants did reduce, but not by much.

This means that only one licence is needed for all facilities, branches or locations operated by a service provider that provide specified goods or services to statutory accident benefit claimants.

The prime minister today set out plans for a new crackdown on benefit claimants as part of a government bid to boost the skilled workforce.

Asked by ITV News Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship what consequences a housing benefit claimant who over claimed for the same of amount of expenses Culture Secretary Maria Miller claimed for should face, he said:

Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are awards that can be made by local authorities to Housing Benefit claimants who are experiencing financial difficulty with housing costs.

ESA: incapacity benefits reassessment (ceased)-- Statistics on the reassessment of incapacity benefits claimants for ESA.

In fact, there is a significant proportion of disability benefit claimants who should be on unemployment benefit, and therefore the figure of the jobless is substantially higher if not for the shunting of these people onto the sickness register mainly because of the higher levels of benefit.

Experian and other credit monitoring companies will be enlisted to see if benefit claimants are spending large amounts of money on, for example, foreign holidays.

All the main parties have been guilty in recent years of negative mythologising about benefit claimants so let's hope all of Westminster wakes up to the fact that a change may be occurring.

Peers have rejected the government's plans to prevent benefit claimants receiving more than # 26,000 a year, handing the coalition's welfare reforms another big setback.

Ms Flint continued: «Work is the best route out of poverty and with over 250 companies working with us, more long - term benefit claimants can fill some of the 680,000 job vacancies.

Birmingham Hodge Hill, the seat held by Byrne, who is the shadow work and pensions secretary, has the second highest number of unemployment benefit claimants with 7,234.

Neighbourhood statistics data: ward and super output area / data zone — Data on DWP benefit claimants within small geographical areas.

CHannel 4 have joined Ukip and the Tories in turning immigrants and benefit claimants into modern day witches.

Its politics are also more left - wing than England's, with a centre left government of the European social democrat style - but again, the idea that Scots are uniformly, or even mostly, sympathetic towards benefits claimants and the such like is unsupported by evidence.

Mr Duncan Smith will tell MPs this week that while all new benefit claimants will have to abide by the new rules from April 2011, the changes will not come into force for existing claimants until January 2012.

Plans to make unemployed benefit claimants work harder to find a job will be unveiled by Labour «s policy review chief, Liam Byrne, on Monday.

The already intense pressure on a shrinking network of jobcentres will increase further in 2019 when the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will begin moving millions of existing benefit claimants onto Universal Credit.

Owing to a reduction in clay and coal excavation works in the area, and canal trade, this seat has the highest unemployment rates of the three Stoke seats; this seat has 6.2 % of workless registered unemployment benefit claimants, compared to a national average of 3.8 % and regional average of 4.7 %.

Neighbourhood statistics data: ward and super output area / data zone — Numbers of DWP benefit claimants within small geographical areas.

Mr Gray resigned when the news broke that HMRC had lost two computer discs with the confidential details of 25 million child benefit claimants in the post.

Meanwhile — despite much evidence to the contrary — the Conservatives still seem to think that voters approve of the victimisation of benefit claimants over cracking down on aggressive tax avoidance.

If you listen to the Tories, Labour is today voting against welfare cuts and in favour of paying benefit claimants more than public sector workers.

One proposal put forward was to make Incapacity Benefit claimants reassert their entitlement every three years.

In an already deprived area — unemployment is above the national and London average, and Northumberland Park has the third - highest benefit claimant rate in the capital — the legacy of that summer lasted long after the TV cameras had moved on.

«Given its track record, the department needs to get its act together quickly if it is to deliver a system that vulnerable benefit claimants can rely on.»

«Despite all the scaremongering, research now shows that of those housing benefit claimants affected by the cap, a third said they would now be looking for a job,» work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith wrote in a letter to the Daily Mail.

The few like Ben Bradshaw need to stop whining about being caught milking the many - and start paying back, as overpaid benefit claimants would have to.

Not long after our interview comes to an end, Ben Bradley, the 28 - year - old Tory MP appointed vice chair for youth, comes under fire for a 2012 blog post in which he suggested benefit claimants should have vasectomies.

Over a third of benefit claimants felt that there was nothing wrong with choosing to stay on benefits rather than looking for work and that claiming benefits should be an option over having to work.

With 1.5 million incapacity benefit claimants waiting to be assessed using the work capability assessment in the next few years and tens of thousands of people already on ESA and set to be reviewed annually, these changes will be of great concern to many voters — if they find out about them before polling day.

Embracing austerity, demonising benefit claimants, scapegoating immigrants: This was Labour's «opposition'to the cruellest of Tory governments.

The strongest language on welfare came from Corbyn, who called on Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, to resign following the publication of figures from his department showing thousands of benefit claimants died within weeks of being declared fit to work.

«We will be taking a tougher approach to conditionality [for benefit claimants].

Just this week we had Iain Duncan Smith in the Mail and the Express referring to one million workshy benefit claimants, when in reality, one third have been certified as medically unable to work for the time being (although this may change in the future) and another third are single parents looking after children of school age.

As laid out in this year's Budget, the proposal for a cap on the total cost of the welfare bill was set to both bash benefit claimants (which voters like) and be responsible with the public money (which voters expect).

Revealing Iain Duncan Smith's enthusiasm for putting obese benefit claimants on a liquid diet says a lot about the motivation of the man running the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesperson Danny Alexander blamed government plans to penalise benefit claimants avoiding work for the current problems, however.

Mr Miliband suggested the coalition's policies were more likely to divide Britain, dividing north and south, the public and private sectors and those in work against benefit claimants.

«We know there is a small group of benefit claimants without the major physical or health barriers to work associated with incapacity benefit - who live in areas where there is no shortage of vacancies, particularly for low - skilled jobs but who nonetheless remain on benefits for long periods of time,» he said.

Sparing the budgets of other Whitehall departments by hitting welfare harder may play well with voters who think benefit claimants are scroungers.