IDS: Benefits Reforms 'Make Part-Time Jobs Attractive'

The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said pilot schemes of the Government’s new universal credit suggested claimants are increasingly moving into seasonal, short-term or part-time work. Employers have long found people on benefits unwilling to accept such jobs, since they risk losing tax credits, housing benefit or other handouts for positions that may not be secure, and turned to foreign workers. But Mr Duncan Smith said universal credit, which guarantees that claimants are always better off working, even part-time, was creating a new market in ‘mini-jobs’ for the British unemployed. Read more on the Daily Mail website.