Eligibility for income support and unemployment benefit after the social security act 1989

In 1988 (“Training for Employment,” Department of Employment 1988) the government gave notice of its concern that failure to seek work, ineffective job search methods, and the wage and occupational inflexibility of the claimant unemployed were a major cause of unemployment. This article explains how the Social Security Act 1989 has sought to alter claimants' behaviour in these respects.