Reform UK today vowed to make long-term welfare claimants do 20 hours a week of community work – such as cleaning up high streets – in order to keep their benefits.
Robert Jenrick, the party’s Treasury spokesman, unveiled plans to make benefit recipients part of ‘alarm clock Britain’ under a ‘welfare to work’ scheme.
Under the proposals, those who have been out of work for more than 12 months but are deemed fit to work will be made to undertake tasks organised by their local council.
This will include work to clean up high streets and parks, to staff libraries and community centres,
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