UK's Hunt says his budget will get more people into work

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British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said he would use this week's budget plan to remove barriers, including high childcare costs, that are stopping people from working and causing a major problem for employers after the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit.

There are more than 1 million job vacancies in Britain, while one in five working-age people is either out of a job or not seeking one. The government said it hopes the announcements this week will get hundreds of thousands of people into work.

Hunt also plans to allow disabled people and those with long-term health conditions to work without removing their supplementary financial support, the Treasury said. Hunt rejected suggestions that the government should significantly loosen its post-Brexit immigration rules to ease the labour market squeeze, saying it wanted controlled legal migration over "filling every vacancy in our businesses with uncontrolled migration."

 

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Apart from it doesn't seem to address the fact that people on median incomes and not on universal credit will still not be able to afford childcare. I know people on £35k a year who are delaying having kids because of costs.

Hope those jobs are available, or is this just hit on the most vulnerable as per Tory usual . Payback for the Furlough Scam 🥱

“Get”? - “Force”, more like!

Really getting people in work is great but I’m sure they wouldn’t be able to buy food at the rate the prices keep going up!!

great! for slave wage or living wage?

Hunt, pictured leaving the BBC after handing dow the Tory’s latest diktat.

By increasing poverty.

by reducing state payments to the unemployed

The Uk is falling apart

There are no more people available… moronic policy from a failure of a government ToryBritain

Why has he got a whip.

Mike Hunt?

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