Job seekers could have welfare stopped under ‘onerous’ new points-based system, advocates warn

Mutual obligations system will require people to complete an expanded range of activities to keep their payments * Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Welfare advocates have warned job seekers may have their payments suspended under a new points-based mutual obligations system because of “unnecessarily onerous” requirements. The “points-based activation system”, to be introduced from 1 July, replaces the rigid 20 job applications a month requirement that has frustrated job seekers and employers for many years. Continue reading...
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