It is part of new plans to get people back to work, which will also see an extra £2.5bn spent on career support.
Meanwhile, Labour pledged to invest an extra £1.1bn to cut NHS waiting lists to help get people back to work.
Meanwhile, Labour pledged to invest an extra £1.1bn to cut NHS waiting lists to help get people back to work.
It said there were 300,000 people who had been registered as unemployed for over a year in the three months to July.
Meanwhile, the number “inactive” due to long-term sickness or disability had risen by almost half a million since the pandemic to a record 2.6 million.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said that many of these people wanted to work and that “with almost a million vacancies in the jobs market the opportunities are there”.
“These changes mean there’s help and support for everyone [to find work] – but for those who refuse it, there are consequences too,” he added.
“Anyone choosing to coast on the hard work of taxpayers will lose their benefits.”
Meanwhile, Labour pledged to invest an extra £1.1bn to cut NHS waiting lists to help get people back to work.
It is part of new plans to get people back to work, which will also see an extra £2.5bn spent on career support.
It said there were 300,000 people who had been registered as unemployed for over a year in the three months to July.
Meanwhile, Labour pledged to invest an extra £1.1bn to cut NHS waiting lists to help get people back to work.
Meanwhile, Labour pledged to invest an extra £1.1bn to cut NHS waiting lists to help get people back to work.
It said there were 300,000 people who had been registered as unemployed for over a year in the three months to July.
Meanwhile, the number “inactive” due to long-term sickness or disability had risen by almost half a million since the pandemic to a record 2.6 million.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said that many of these people wanted to work and that “with almost a million vacancies in the jobs market the opportunities are there”.
“These changes mean there’s help and support for everyone [to find work] – but for those who refuse it, there are consequences too,” he added.
“Anyone choosing to coast on the hard work of taxpayers will lose their benefits.”
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