We are delighted to announce the launch of our brand new online lottery scheme with funds raised going directly to the Leeds United Foundation, the grass roots sports charity who work tirelessly to deliver high level
programmes across our region
for children, young
people, adults, disabled at - risk, the
unemployed and the elderly.
Some of the biggest firms running the government's welfare - to - work scheme have been penalised
for poor performance after it was revealed almost eight out of 10
unemployed people on the
programme for two years had failed to get a proper job.
That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute
for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work
programme or the slipped timetable
for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work
for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term
unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions
for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.
This includes ending funding new jobs
for young
people under the future jobs fund, and removing recruitment subsidies to employers who took on
unemployed young
people from the six - month offer
programme.