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The Department for Work and Pensions has "decided to scrap" a major Universal Credit rule. The DWP is ditching a rule that requires unemployed benefit claimants to spend 35 hours a week searching for work.

The Labour Party government "has signalled it will end the ‘rigid focus’ on the 35-hour a week job search requirements for out of work benefit claimants", the DWP has announced.

It comes after a Work and Pensions Committee report called on it to scrap blanket benefit requirements. The DWP and Labour have spoken out in response to the Committee’s Get Britain Working: Reforming Jobcentres report.

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The DWP said it was testing a more personalised system through its Pathfinder scheme, as

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