ALMOST all benefit claimants will be forced either to look for a job or prepare for work if they want to continue to receive state handouts, under a shake-up of the welfare state.**If you claim "Jobseekers Allowance" you have to look for a job and provide evidence of that when you sign, although one problem that I don't see Mr Purnell doing is offering support services in the first few weeks of being out of work.
One thing I found when I was "signing on" was that the so called "job clubs" and the like only kicked in after you had been out of work for some time.
By which point I had akready managed to find a job myself.
Single mothers of children as young as one and people registered unfit for work will be compelled to go on training courses and work experience or risk cuts to their benefits.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, James Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, said: “Virtually everyone will be doing something in return for their benefits.”
The welfare reform white paper, to be published this week, is set to provoke anger from rebel Labour MPs and campaign groups who believe such measures are unfair in a period of rising unemployment.
**It might also be worthy of note here that Frank Field proposed very similar measures when Blair was at the helm and the net result was he was removed from his job by Blair and nothing was done.
And so it go's on, tough on benefits and tough on the causes of benefits. All very Cool Britannia and all stuff that we have heard so many times before.
Lots of threats and tough talk, although what with employers laying off I do note that Mr Purnell says nothing of what work they will all be getting after their re-start interviews.
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