A pilot scheme has been running in parts of the country since the mid-1980s and is expected to be rolled out nationwide by 2015.
Posted: Oct 2nd, 2010
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Details have emerged from the budget for plans to train ‘dole-scroungers’ in the arts of bushcraft. The scheme, hidden within the reduced budget for the SureStart programme, will see sofa-huggers cast out into the countrified areas of Britain in search of a decent meal.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2010
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The Department for Work and Pensions has warned that the country’s benefits system is in danger of collapse as ex-MPs struggle to find employment outside Westminster and have to turn to state handouts.
Posted: May 8th, 2010
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In an unprecedented crackdown on unnecessary benefits claimants, all women currently claiming jobseeker’s allowance will soon have to demonstrate that they’re available to ‘turn tricks’ if they wish to continue receiving benefits.
Posted: Mar 6th, 2010
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‘Too many women are being discouraged from going ‘on the fiddle’ by a perception that they won’t be able to pull off as convincing a con as a man.
Posted: Jan 29th, 2010
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