Unemployed to do unpaid work or lose benefits
The unemployed will have to do unpaid full time work or lose their benefits, in a bid to reduce the amount spent on the jobless.
By Claire Carter
12:33AM BST 27 Sep 2013
Under proposals expected to be announced next week at the Conservative conference, people who have been out of work for a long time will be expected to earn their benefits by working for firms unpaid or in the community.
It has been suggested adopting a new US-style ‘work for the dole’ scheme will help to reduce Britain’s large benefits bill.
It is expected that those who fail to find jobs through the Government’s main back to work scheme - the Work Programme - will have to work for their payments, sources told the Daily Mail.
Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, told the newspaper: “It’s not acceptable for people to expect to live a life on benefits if they’re able to work.”
Sources in the Department for Work and Pensions described the reports as "pure speculation".
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