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Originally Posted by Damien
Well it also means that they won't be claiming as much benefit and they have some path back into work, it's much harder for the long term unemployed to find work than those whose spells in unemployment have been short. No policy is perfect but regardless of the perceived motivations of the last government the policy itself wasn't a bad idea and hasn't led, to my knowledge, to the problems people foresee with increasing it to be more in-line with the living wage. People being below what they need to live isn't a good system and will lead to people needing their benefits to be topped up with tax credits.
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I have to disagree to a certain extent regarding the benefit of subsidised employment. We ended up in the situation where some people not exceeding 16 hours per week are better off than others in full time employment. Some who do not work at all are better off, with more disposable income than those in work, and that can't be right.