One in four off benefits for three months on Work Programme
10 July 2012
Government data on the first year of the payment-by-results welfare-to-work Work Programme shows that 24% of participants who joined the scheme in June 2011 have already completed at least three successive months off benefits.
Tue, 10 Jul 2012
Government data on the first year of the payment-by-results welfare-to-work Work Programme shows that 24% of participants who joined the scheme in June 2011 have already completed at least three successive months off benefits.
In total, 48% had had a break from their benefits claim, out of a total of 519,000 people who have received support from the programme in its first eight months.Under the Work Programme, private providers and voluntary organisations are paid according to results, with a job outcome payment being made after 13 or 26 weeks in employment, with further payments being made for sustained employment after that. Full official statistics will be published for the first time in the autumn.
Employment minister Chris Grayling said: “These figures are the first indication that the Work Programme has had a promising start in what’s been a very difficult labour market.”
Yesterday’s data also shows that since the launch Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s Youth Contract in April, 17,100 18- to 24-year-olds started in a job.
Government data on the first year of the payment-by-results welfare-to-work Work Programme shows that 24% of participants who joined the scheme in June 2011 have already completed at least three successive months off benefits.
In total, 48% had had a break from their benefits claim, out of a total of 519,000 people who have received support from the programme in its first eight months.Under the Work Programme, private providers and voluntary organisations are paid according to results, with a job outcome payment being made after 13 or 26 weeks in employment, with further payments being made for sustained employment after that. Full official statistics will be published for the first time in the autumn.
Employment minister Chris Grayling said: “These figures are the first indication that the Work Programme has had a promising start in what’s been a very difficult labour market.”
Yesterday’s data also shows that since the launch Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s Youth Contract in April, 17,100 18- to 24-year-olds started in a job.
