Acoss calculates the real world impact of the cuts, including the decision to force under 25-year-old jobseekers to wait one month for benefits, to put those aged between 22 and 24 on the lower "youth allowance", the cuts to family tax benefit supplements, changes to family tax benefits more broadly and the cuts to energy supplements.
His research on older jobseekers in Japan can be found in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Social Policy.
Grimly, she advised older jobseekers not to put their dates of birth on application forms, even though age discrimination is obviously illegal.
I think the current apprenticeship subsidies are having a really positive effect on ensuring young people receive apprentice placements and would certainly welcome the programme being extended to older jobseekers as well now.
The stigma of being an older jobseeker would be removed and a range of part-work part-pension options become available.
Wow, I cannot wait to let every 25-year-old jobseeker mine my top-tier marketing connections to help them land a job.
A 21-year-old jobseeker told the Guardian last November that he had worked for Tesco for seven weeks stacking and cleaning shelves and doing the same work as other employees with little support or training.
One 21-year-old jobseeker told the Guardian last November that he had worked for Tesco for seven weeks stacking and cleaning shelves and doing the same work as other employees with little support or training.
Steve, a 53-year-old on jobseeker's allowance (JSA), knows both sides of that coin.
A plan by the prime minister to reduce the welfare cap from £26,000 to £23,000 and the removal of housing benefit from 18- to 21-year-olds on jobseeker's allowance will raise £255m a year, which will be used to fund the apprenticeships.
The number of 18 to 24-year-olds claiming jobseeker's allowance in Wales fell by 300 in October, but the figure is still 16.2% higher than the same time last year.
