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"We would also like housing benefit removed from the universal credit cap and to get rid of benefit cuts for under-occupancy," says Brown.
Iain Duncan Smith was confronted at the work and pensions select committee with claims that job centre staff are being handed targets to reduce the number of claimants by moving them off the register or ensuring that they have their benefit removed.
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His jobcentre adviser didn't explain he had to make weekly, computerised job searches, so he was sanctioned and his benefits removed.
At the time of writing, just short of 100,000 people who signed the e-petition calling for "any persons convicted of criminal acts during the London riots" to have "all financial benefits removed" think so.
Under the work experience scheme, hundreds of thousands of largely young jobseekers will work in charities and private businesses for 30 hours a week, for eight weeks, without pay, and can have their benefits removed if they withdraw.
Last week, the Guardian revealed that a single mother of two said she was threatened with having her benefits removed if she didn't complete the "my strengths" character survey.
The discount clothing store TK Maxx has said it no longer supports the Department of Work and Pensions' work experience schemes in which jobseekers can have their benefits removed if they do not work unpaid for up to 30 hours a week.
The petition — which appeared under the poorly spelled headline: "Convicted London Rioters Should Loose All Benefits" — stated: Any persons convicted of criminal acts during the current London riots should have all financial benefits removed.
Meanwhile, Argos and Superdrug said they were suspending their involvement pending talks with ministers from the Department for Work and Pensions to ensure that the scheme, which has been personally championed by senior coalition figures, is voluntary and that jobseekers would no longer fear having their benefits removed if they pulled out of placements after the first week.
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