Posts Tagged ‘claimants’
UK unemployment continues to slow
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today revealed that UK unemployment fell slightly in the three months to December to 2.46 million.
However, the unemployment rate remains the same at 7.8%, according to the ONS.
In the meantime, the number of Britons claiming jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) rose by 23,500 in January to 1.64 million – the [...]
TUC: Official figures show long-term unemployment soars
According to the TUC, the number of people spending their second consecutive Christmas claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance has almost doubled.
Using their calculations from official claimant count data, figures show the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s allowance for more than a year rose to 201,015 in November 2009, from 103,930 in December 2008.
Furthermore, the TUC said almost [...]