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Jobcentre Plus or minus?
— exploring the performance of Jobcentre Plus for non-jobseekers | | Author(s) | Eleni Karagiannaki |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2005 |
| Pages | 32 pp (CASEpaper 97) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Services ; Usage [services] ; Claims [services] ; Central government departments and agencies ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Since April 2002, Jobcentre Plus has been providing fully integrated benefits claiming and work placement or job-seeking activities for people of working age. Along with Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) claimants who traditionally have been the focus of work-focused policies, Jobcentre Plus targets a much wider group of clients including lone parents, disabled people and carers. Although the new organisation's work focus could be beneficial to clients who themselves have an explicit work orientation, its effect on clients for whom work is not a feasible option are far less clear. This paper explores whether changes in the delivery of the benefit system introduced by Jobcentre Plus have been beneficial for claimants who are not jobseekers, and assesses which aspects of the new organisation work well and which could be improved to the benefit of non-job-oriented clients' needs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050621206 B |
| Classmark | JH: I: QLD: QLT: PC: TM2 |
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