More than 200,000 people on the government's controversial Work Programme have
returned to the Job Centre to find employment, according to official
figures.
The scheme, which is part of a number of welfare to work reforms the government has introduced aimed at getting unemployed people into sustained work, uses private and public companies to find work for benefit claimants who have been unemployed for at least one year.
But the Department for Work and Pensions revealed 219,000 individuals – of the 1.41 million people who have been referred to the scheme - have returned to Jobcentre Plus after completing 104 weeks on the programme between June 2011 and the end of September 2013.
ibtimes
The scheme, which is part of a number of welfare to work reforms the government has introduced aimed at getting unemployed people into sustained work, uses private and public companies to find work for benefit claimants who have been unemployed for at least one year.
But the Department for Work and Pensions revealed 219,000 individuals – of the 1.41 million people who have been referred to the scheme - have returned to Jobcentre Plus after completing 104 weeks on the programme between June 2011 and the end of September 2013.
ibtimes
