At, PMQs today, David Cameron claimed: “Our work experience programme is seeing half of the young people taking part getting into work – that is the same result as the Future Jobs Fund and it cost 20 times less – that is the truth – our programme is good value for taxpayers’ money, is getting [...]
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In the June 2010 emergency budget, George Osborne announced housing benefit would be cut by 10% for people who have been on Jobseeker’s Allowance for 12 months or more. The government, however, have u-turned on this, as The Guardian reports: The government has dropped plans to impose a 10% cut in housing benefit on anyone [...]
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