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09/01/2008
Long Term Jobless To Lose Benefits: Tories
A new national plan by Tories to get those on the Dole back to work could see many unemployed people stripped of benefit if they refuse to prove themselves not to be 'work-shy' by doing voluntary work.
The new, hardline Tory plans were unveiled under their proposed 'Work for Welfare' crackdown which will hit anyone who has been unemployed for a combined total of two years, even if it was broken up by periods in work.
The Conservatives plan will target claimants abusing the system by taking a job for a few weeks before returning to benefits - thereby avoiding existing sanctions.
Separately, benefits will also be temporarily removed from people who refuse "reasonable" job offers and everyone on Incapacity Benefit will be forced to undergo an in-depth assessment.
But these proposals have already been attacked by the Westminster Work and Pensions Secretary, Peter Hain, for failing to offer skills training, as the Labour Government does.
He commented: "They are unfundable, unworkable and unfair."
(BMcC/JM)
The new, hardline Tory plans were unveiled under their proposed 'Work for Welfare' crackdown which will hit anyone who has been unemployed for a combined total of two years, even if it was broken up by periods in work.
The Conservatives plan will target claimants abusing the system by taking a job for a few weeks before returning to benefits - thereby avoiding existing sanctions.
Separately, benefits will also be temporarily removed from people who refuse "reasonable" job offers and everyone on Incapacity Benefit will be forced to undergo an in-depth assessment.
But these proposals have already been attacked by the Westminster Work and Pensions Secretary, Peter Hain, for failing to offer skills training, as the Labour Government does.
He commented: "They are unfundable, unworkable and unfair."
(BMcC/JM)
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