Despite the suspension of conditionality, benefit claimants are already looking for work. 30/06/2020
Edmiston, Daniel ; Baumberg Geiger, ben ; Scullion, Lisa ; Ingold, Jo ; Summers, Kate
London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE - London
2020
epidemic disease ; employment ; job searching ; social protection
Employment
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/conditionality-covid19/
English
"The unique challenges that COVID-19 presents have meant a ‘pause' in overt work-related requirements. Despite this, and the dire job prospects facing many, the majority of the new COVID-19 cohort of benefit claimants who do not have a job are actively looking for work, find Daniel Edmiston, Ben Baumberg Geiger, Lisa Scullion, Jo Ingold and Kate Summers. This questions many of the assumptions that underpin our increasingly conditional social security system and should encourage policymakers to rethink what income and employment support might look like as we move beyond this pandemic."
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