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Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high?

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By Ben Baumberg Geiger
| Substack
“Record 6.5 million Britons on jobless benefits” ran the Telegraph headline a few weeks ago, an apparent 80% rise since 2018 - a claim that is now doing the rounds among journalists and politicians, including Nigel Farage (as you can hear on the BBC Radio 4 More or Less programme that came out this morning, where I was talking about all this).
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Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom: Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable?

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By Ben Baumberg Geiger, Lisa Scullion, Daniel Edmiston, Robert de Vries
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction Although ‘individual rights to social benefits have always and everywhere been conditional in some ways’ (Clasen and Clegg 2011, 171–172), high-income countries have considerably expanded the use of behavioural conditionality within social protection since the 1980s (Knotz 2020; Immervoll and Knotz 2018).
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'Get Britain Working', and the challenge of welfare messaging

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By Ben Baumberg Geiger
| Substack
Yesterday the Government unveiled the ‘Get Britain Working’ White Paper, a series of reforms that directly builds on their manifesto commitments to increase the employment rate to 80%.
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