Reform UK Proposes 20-Hour Community Work Rule for Benefits Claimants
Robert Jenrick said long-term unemployed claimants would work 20 hours a week on local tasks or lose benefits, as Reform UK seeks £50 billion in savings.
- On Monday, Reform UK Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick announced a plan requiring long-term benefits claimants fit for work to perform 20 hours of community service weekly, with sanctions for those who refuse.
- Jenrick stated the policy aims to stop claimants from "taking everyone else for mugs," as the party intends to cut £50 billion from the welfare bill through significant changes.
- Reform UK also proposes banning foreign nationals, including European Union citizens, from claiming most benefits, claiming this "welfare to work" scheme would save £21 billion annually by its fifth year.
- The Lib Dems, Conservatives, and Labour criticized the proposals, calling them "senseless and cruel," "fantasy," and "divisive," respectively.
- Implementing the foreign national ban would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal with the European Union, while 6.6 million working-age people currently claim out-of-work benefits.
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“Britain is now the Welfare State for the World,” said Reform’s Robert Jenrick in a barnstorming speech where he claimed the welfare bill is now a full-blown national crisis.“Britain is broken,” he said. “Our welfare system is a moral and economic catastrophe and only Reform can fix it.”The Treasury Spokesman’s speech, which was to spell out how Reform will slash the Benefits bill by £50million, was tough and unequivocal. Jenrick talked passiona…
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