Consultation ends 22/10/08

The Department for Work and Pensions is consulting on a Welfare Green Paper that proposes that people out of work for more than two years will be required to work full-time in the community.

It also includes plans to scrap incapacity benefit, and only those "with the greatest needs" will be exempt from being expected to find work. Other measures include child maintenance payments not being taken into account when calculating how much benefit out-of-work parents should receive and requiring lone parents to find work once their youngest child reaches the age of five.

The consultation document is available to download from the Department for Work and Pensions website.