Despite the suspension of conditionality, benefit claimants are already looking for work

Edmiston, Daniel, Geiger, Ben, Scullion, Lisa, Ingold, Jo and Summers, Kate ORCID: 0000-0001-9964-0259 (2020) Despite the suspension of conditionality, benefit claimants are already looking for work. British Politics and Policy at LSE (29 Jun 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE Methodology
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2020 14:03
Last Modified:	01 Apr 2024 07:54
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105476

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