Or will they seek deficit spending as they did on the unemployment benefit extension bill?
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The government is offering to pay them a lump-sum unemployment benefit if they go home.
The snag is that fewer than 2, 000 people in Reading are claiming unemployment benefit.
Two-thirds of those on the company's programme are on job seekers' allowance basic unemployment benefit.
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They received part of their unemployment benefit, with the remaining nine shillings being sent to their families.
In this and the neighbouring council ward, the number of people on unemployment benefit is not much above 4%.
It is plain to see that permanently stagnant labor markets are making Social Security disability the new unemployment benefit.
It found they were being encouraged off unemployment benefit, so they can claim more money from working tax credits.
The alliance would pay for this in part by cutting unemployment benefit, from about 80% of previous income to 65%.
If the unemployed refused to search for a job, or to take the compulsory one, their unemployment benefit was halted.
But with 5.5% of the city's population claiming unemployment benefit, well above the national average of 3.8%, more jobs are needed.
The number of people claiming unemployment benefit fell by 7, 000 in May.
Take cuts in unemployment benefit, which spur the jobless to find work.
He wants to cut unemployment benefit to 12 months from the current 32, and to reduce welfare benefits paid to the long-term unemployed.
The number of people claiming unemployment benefit fell by 4, 900 last month to 942, 100, although the number of jobless people not claiming benefits rose.
Another 2.7% is the cyclical deficit, which should disappear of its own accord as the economy recovers boosting tax revenues and reducing unemployment benefit payments.
Welfare and unemployment benefit costs will no doubt rise as well.
As a result, it now greatly exceeds those on unemployment benefit.
They have not built up a decent cushion of unemployment benefit.
Scotland's youth unemployment rate has increased over the year by 1.3% to 23.7%, although the number of 18 to 24-year-olds claiming unemployment benefit has fallen by 3, 700.
The number of 18 to 24-year-olds claiming unemployment benefit for more than a year continued to rise - from 1, 500 in September 2011 to 4, 700 last month.
That is why we need more radical welfare reform, getting more disabled people, more lone parents, more on unemployment benefit, into work, not to destroy the welfare state.
There, deep cuts in unemployment benefit and sickness pay have been made, while limited labour-market reforms have helped push down unemployment to little more than half German levels.
Arlene Foster said 8% of under-25s were claiming unemployment benefit.
Shortening the period of entitlement to unemployment benefit, for instance, would only bring it back to the position in 1985, hardly as radical a move as it first appears.
Extensions to unemployment benefit and a job-boosting cut to the payroll tax are both set to expire at the end of this year, unless they are renewed by Congress.
Other planned measures would do even more to loosen Italy's arthritic labour market: a new, more broadly applicable unemployment benefit and measures to encourage apprenticeships rather than intermittent short-term contracts.
The need for such a boost was underlined this week by figures showing that the number of people claiming unemployment benefit increased by 75, 700 between October and November, taking the total above 1m.
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The Iron Lady, Mrs Thatcher, was widely seen to have smashed this cosy consensus, but in fact left the National Health Service, the unemployment benefit, and many other welfare provisions, if not unscathed, still standing.
True, as Labour points out, some of the fall in measured unemployment reflects a decline in benefit claims due to the tough eligibility rules of the new Jobseeker's Allowance, introduced last year in place of the old Unemployment Benefit.
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