article_snippet: The number of homes in which no one has a job has fallen by more than 600,000 since 2010.
article_snippet: Official figures out yesterday also show a decline in families living wholly off state handouts.
article_snippet: Official figures show 15.9 households have no-one in work, down from almost 19 per cent in 2010 .
article_snippet: The count showed that the number of jobless households with at least one working age adult fell from 3,763,000 in the last three months of 2010 to 3,149,000 at the end of last year.
article_snippet: The 16 per cent drop was a result of unemployed people finding jobs and the economically inactive – those previously uninterested in working – moving into the labour market.
article_snippet: The number of homes where no one has ever worked, the hard core of benefit-dependent individuals and families, fell from 275,000 in the final months of 2010 to 245,000 in the same period last year.
article_snippet: There were 372,000 fewer children in jobless homes than in 2010, and the number of children in families where no one has ever worked, over 302,000 at the end of 2011, was down to 221,000 at the end of last yearlast year.
article_snippet: In total, 1.9million more people with the self-esteem and financial security that a job brings. 'the figures reveal that the number of workless households has fallen by over 600,000 under this Government.
article_snippet: Most significantly, there are 272,000 fewer households living in social housing without work. '
article_snippet: The worklessness count came on top of last week's record employment figures and a zero inflation rate likely to be good news for families at a time when incomes are beginning to rise again in the wake of the recession.
article_snippet: The jobless total is 1.86million, the lowest level since the summer of 2008.
article_snippet: The unemployment rate is 5.7 per cent compared with a European Union average of 9.8 per cent.
highlights_snippet: Official figures reveal decline in families living wholly off state handouts .
  
highlights_snippet: There are 372,000 fewer children in jobless homes than there were in 2010 .