1.6M 'INVISIBLE' JOBLESS; EXCLUSIVE.Byline: By BOB ROBERTS BRITAIN has almost 1.6 million "invisible unemployed", a report said last night. The official number of less than a million on the dole is a massive underestimate of the number without work - the real level is nearer 2.6 million, it said. Official figures will today show the number claiming Job Seekers Allowance is around 900,000. But the report by Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a university in Sheffield, England. It is based on three campuses, the main one is in Sheffield city centre, and the other two (Psalter Lane and Collegiate Crescent) are close to Ecclesall Road in southwest Sheffield. said another 650,000 do not qualify for the benefit. And 1,010,000 are on Incapacity Benefit This is a United Kingdom state benefit intended for those below the State Pension age who cannot work because of illness or disability. The benefit is administered by Jobcentre Plus (an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions). . They used to be been registered as out of work. The report called for Gordon Brown to reduce real joblessness. Prof Steve Fothergill, who led the study, said: "He needs to be aware many parts of the North, Scotland and Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. have a long way to go to match the booming South." |
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