Rachel Reeves to announce ‘basic skills test’ for unemployed

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary, Rachel Reeves will announce more strict welfare plan which will make the unemployed people living in U.K. lose their jobless benefits if they fail to past ‘Basic skills test’.

The shadow minister has told out of job individuals lacking any basic skills in English, maths and IT will have their benefits stripped if they refuse to take training courses, in case Labour wins the next general election.

The new reforms would witness around 300,000 people a year forced to sit tests within the first six weeks on the dole.

In her first speech as a shadow work and pensions secretary, Ms. Reeves has said: “The shocking levels of English and maths among too many jobseekers are holding them back from getting work.

“This traps too many jobseekers in a vicious cycle between low paid work and benefits.

“And IT skills among jobseekers are even worse; nearly half don’t have the basic email skills which are now essential for almost any job application”.

Under the Labour government, a basic skills test would “give the long-term unemployed a better chance of finding a job and will help us to earn our way out of the cost living crisis”.

Ms. Reeves has also rejected the claims of Conservative Party spokesperson that Labour is “copying” an already existing Conservative policy, “superior” to the one devised by the Labour.

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