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Universal Credit sign on a door of a job centre plus in east London
BENEFIT reforms in the past decades have pushed more people into part-time, low-paid jobs with little prospect of future high wages, new research has found.
Universal credit (UC), the Tories’ flagship reform, appears to have helped claimants return to work more quickly, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
But imposing job-search conditions on out-of-work lone parents has pushed them into mostly part-time jobs paying an average of just £8,000 a year, the think tank said.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society