Synopsis
"SUPPORT FOR SPECIFIC POLICY MEASURES
• By 80% to 13% there is agreement that “people who have been out of work for 12 months or more, who are physically and mentally capable of undertaking a job, should be required to do community work in return for their state benefits.”
• 49% of respondents back the idea that claimants who break their jobseekers agreement should lose half or more of their benefits. 21% backed the idea that they should lose all their benefits “regardless of the hardship it would cause”."
Just Deserts? Attitudes to Fairness, Poverty and Welfare Reform