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In-work conditionality may prove to be the bridge too far for Tory welfare "reform".

By May, in-work conditionality will have been imposed on 15,000 low-paid workers in a handful of trial areas across the UK.

In-work conditionality will be defined by an earnings threshold, the equivalent of a 35-hour week on the national minimum wage (currently £212.80).

In-work conditionality means claimants who are working up to 35 hours a week – and who may never have been on the dole in their life – are forced to attend jobcentre interviews on a weekly or fortnightly basis.

For the first time people in part-time work will be sanctioned with benefit stoppages if they don't prove they are looking for more hours: "in-work conditionality" is the phrase.

However, a number of submissions to a parliamentary inquiry into in-work conditionality say jobcentres, which are facing staffing cuts, will have neither the capacity or the expertise to provide meaningful one-to-one career support and coaching to an influx of hundreds of thousands of working UC claimants.

The fines, part of a little-known "in-work conditionality" programme introduced by the then work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, have been called "political dynamite" by academics, who warn that it may undermine unemployed people taking low-paid jobs.

Although Duncan Smith's replacement at the DWP, Stephen Crabb, did not mention in-work conditionality by name in his first major speech this week, he described the initiative positively as "a human being in the jobcentre staying with you as you move into work and progress, coaching you, mentoring you, supporting you".

The thinktank also warned that in-work conditionality, whereby low-paid working UC claimants would be expected to prove to DWP officials they were seeking to earn more by working longer hours or taking a second job, as a condition of receiving the benefit, would be controversial.

"As a union, we don't agree with in-work conditionality and the sanctions regime at all," continued the spokesperson.

A PCS spokesperson said: "It's difficult to say what proportion of DWP staff would be affected by in-work conditionality, where pay is historically low.