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Plaskitt: High job numbers helped by more people coming off benefits - but we cannot ignore unemployment

Published: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:50:40

The number of people claiming out-of-work benefits continues to fall. The numbers on Lone Parent benefit and incapacity benefits have fallen by more than 70,000 over the last year up to February 2008, according to figures out today (13 August 2008).

Alongside this, figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that the number of people in employment grew in the last quarter (April to June 2008 compared to January to March), and that over the year there were 384,000 more people with jobs.
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