Docking welfare payments is not incentive to work, report claims

Government-backed employment project found benefit cuts that push claimants further into poverty also create barriers to finding work Cuts to benefit entitlements make it less likely unemployed people will find a job, a government-backed employment project has found, undermining politicians' claims that docking welfare payments acts as an incentive to work. A scheme run by Oxford city council and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) found that the odds of long-term jobless claimants findin...