More on work

[andrewducker]

Stolen from missedith01:

A new report from Save the Children:

"... found children whose parents yo-yo between work and unemployment often live in worse conditions than those whose parents are constantly out of work.

Parents in short-term work could find themselves worse off because they suffered a dramatic fall in income - and a delay in benefits - once that job ended.

In a small number of cases families would actually have been less impoverished had the parents not tried to find jobs, the figures suggest."

Well, that's certainly my experience. Also, Sue Middleton, the report's author, said:

"... if the UK wanted to have a flexible labour market, then it also needed a flexible benefits system."