Rules on unemployment benefits tightened to end 'signing on' culture | Politics | The G... - 2 views
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Rules on unemployment benefits tightened to end 'signing on' culture
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Jobless will have to take 'basic steps' towards finding work before they can claim, as part of government push on welfare
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The government is to hail the end of the "signing on" culture when it announces that unemployed people will have to take "basic steps" towards finding work before they can claim benefits.
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This new policy, outlined from the UK government's recent budget announcement aims to get young people out of the so called welfare culture and into employment. From around the end of the Second World War there has been a rapid increase in people leaving education and signing onto unemployment benefits. With these tougher measures the government hopes to prepare these people for work and curb the relative 7 - 8% unemployment rate. However the government has faced severe criticism, notably for their lack of efforts to get university graduates into jobs since raising university fees here from £3000 per year to £9000 when they came to power in 2010.