Ruth Patrick on a real life experiment about conditionality & unemployment benefits:

'At the height of the pandemic, the government temporarily paused welfare conditionality, meaning that no one was at risk from a benefit sanction for failing to look for work. During this time, claimants continued to seek work at just the same level as when conditionality was in place, powerful evidence that intensive conditionality is an unnecessary evil'!

#workers #unemployment

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Any hope of ‘getting Britain working again’ must not demonise people on welfare

At the height of the pandemic, the government temporarily paused welfare conditionality, but claimants continued to seek work at just the same level as when conditionality was in place.

^{The Conversation}