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Policy Exchange calls for thirty-five hour working week for job seekers and return to contributory welfare system

Conditions on benefit claimants should be increased so that they have to spend more time each week looking for a job, says a new report from leading think tank Policy Exchange. The study recommends that current work search requirements should be expanded to make sure that claimants can stay in - or get into - the habits of a normal working lifestyle. According to research from the Department for Work and Pensions, the average jobseeker currently spends just one hour a day looking for work.

The report - No rights without responsibility: rebalancing the welfare state - also proposes ways to start reintroducing the contributory principle into the benefit system. This would mean those who have paid in National Insurance Contributions for longer would get treated more generously than those who have not.

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