Sentences with phrase «jobseeker allowance»

"Jobseeker allowance" refers to financial support provided by the government to people who are actively looking for employment but currently do not have a job. Full definition
Its spokesmen are able to boast that some 75 % of people claiming jobseekers allowance who come through its doors are off benefit again within six months.
The number of people claiming jobseekers allowance now stands at 1.6 million, up 3,000 since the last figures.
Only around half of claimants leaving jobseekers allowance are still in work eight months later, a third are claiming again.
A small but significant number of repeat claimants had worked out that the way to stay on benefit was simply to apply for jobseekers allowance as a new claimant.
Maybe if workless households could do that too they wouldn't have to claim jobseekers allowance either.
In addition, these job losses alone would cost the Treasury around # 900m in additional jobseekers allowance and other benefits.
Earlier in the day, party officials unveiled a package of welfare reforms, which included taking people off incapacity benefit and onto jobseekers allowance if they failed to satisfy a thorough series of tests.
Again, the policy is not so different from the type of initiative once pursued by Iain Duncan Smith, who gave JobCentre Plus the authority to cut jobseeker allowance of those who refuse treatment for drug addiction.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) recorded a 0.2 % drop in unemployment down to eight per cent in the last three months, with those claiming jobseekers allowance down 5,900 to 1.59 million.
66 % supported withdrawing jobseekers allowance from people who turn down job offers or interviews
Rachel Reeves said the jobs guarantee will force under - 25s who have been out of a year into a minimum wage job, but will only do the same for over 25s after two years on jobseekers allowance.
The number of people claiming Jobseekers allowance has also increased by more than 96,000 in the past year to 950,900, and the inactivity rate is down 0.4 per cent to 21.1 per cent, the lowest since May 1992.
The warning came as Iain Duncan Smith champions the rollout of the «claimant commitment», a key part of the coalition's welfare reforms which forces those on jobseekers allowance to treat looking for work as a «full - time job».
People must speak or be learning English to claim jobseekers allowance, under government plans announced today.
If mandelson does nt believe in equality of outcome at all, then does he support the NHS, jobseekers allowance, minimum wage, sure start, state pensions, national parks, winter fuel allowance?
Benefits for anyone currently receiving incapacity benefit who fails a new work test will be cut by # 25 a week by moving them to jobseekers allowance.
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