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Welfare Reform Bill

I probably did not deal specifically with that. It depends on someone’s journey into the "work for your benefit" regime, but that will be provided by an external provider, so there will be a point at which the individual moves from a Flexible New Deal programme to the external provider. That will be the relationship. It will be the external provider’s role to work with the individual to organise the "work for your benefit" scheme and everything that flows from it, but the individual will still be entitled, as I said, to claim jobseeker’s allowance. They are still in the claimant count. Nothing changes there. The jobseeker’s agreement is a crucial part of the process, because compliance with that agreement is a condition of being able to claim the benefit.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
711 c87GC 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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