This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Long-term unemployed be made to do community work for their benefits
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Long-term unemployed be made to do community work for their benefits!
The UK currently has five million people on out-of-work benefits, with it recorded last year that three million working-age people had been receiving those benefits for two years or more. Government statistics further showed that 1.4million people have been on an out-of-work benefit for nine or more of the past ten years. The numbers mean that the UK has one of the highest rates of workless households in Europe; with 1.9m children living in homes where no-one has a job.
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