[2] Individuals who refused to participate in the scheme faced sanctions usually involving full withdrawal of benefits.
[3] A study of a pilot of the "Help to Work" scheme carried out by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research reached the following conclusion: The good news: Help to Work reduced benefit receipt and increased employment among participants.
The not so good news (but no surprise to those of us who know the literature): not by very much, and overall outcomes were still pretty bad.
[4] Richard Godwin writing in the Evening Standard criticised the scheme as "slavery by another name".
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