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[Date & reference] 1997-04-17 This Is Lancashire Council kick out dole plan
BURY Council is to boycott the Government's controversial "work for your dole" scheme. And local authority leaders are also telling their business partners to join them in kicking Project Work out of the borough. Bury has been chosen to pilot the scheme, which is targeted at people aged 18-50 who have been unemployed for more than two years. But council leader John Byrne said the council was not against genuine schemes which got people back to work and gave them real wages and training. "The problem is that this is ill-conceived, like the Child Support Act," he said. "The CSA was presented from the moral angle of making errant people pay, yet it was used to cut the benefit bill. "Project Work is merely trying to get people off the unemployment register."
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