Unemployment

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Unemployment
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Work Programme

• The Work Programme is delivered for Jobcentre
  Plus by specialist organisations, called
  providers.
• Your provider will give you all the support you
  need to find and stay in work, even if
• you change benefits
• you get a job
• The Work Programme may include you taking part in
  activities to help you find work like
• work experience
• training and further support

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Job Seekers Allowance

• If youre getting Jobseekers Allowance, you may
  have to take part in the Work Programme after
• nine months - if youre aged 18 to 24
• 12 months - if youre 25 or over
• Who can get Jobseeker's Allowance?
• To get Jobseeker's Allowance you must be
• available for, capable of and actively seeking
  work
• aged 18 or over but below State Pension age
• working less than 16 hours per week on average,
  depending on the amount of your wage in Great
  Britain

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Age Amount

• Aged 16 24 53.45
• Aged 25 or over 67.50
• Type of person Amount
• Single people, aged under 2553.45
• Single people, aged 25 or over67.50
• Couples and civil partnerships (both aged 18 or
  over)105.95
• Lone parent (aged under 18)53.45
• Lone parent (aged 18 or over)67.50

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Youth Unemployment

• UK unemployment rose by 129,000 in the three
  months to September to 2.62 million, as youth
  unemployment rose above a million.
• The unemployment rate for 16 to 24-year-olds
  stands at more than double the rate for the wider
  population, at 21.9.