Ministers have been urged to clamp down on a scheme that gives benefits claimants taxpayer-funded laptops, bikes and tools when they secure new jobs.
Under the generous programme, some unemployed people are even being put up in Airbnbs at the public’s expense to help them back into the world of work.
Others have been handed gardening tools, tattooing equipment and train tickets costing hundreds of pounds by Jobcentre ‘work coaches’.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) insists checks are in place to ensure the expensive purchases made under the Flexible Support Fund – which cost taxpayers £68million in 2023-24 – are being
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