Around 100,000 immigrants on jobseeker‘s allowance and related benefits have worse English than the average nine-year-old, according to official statistics.
Announcing the new language requirements to MPs, the Chancellor said: ‘From now on, if claimants don’t speak English, they will have to attend language courses until they do. This is a reasonable requirement in this country.
The unemployed will have to attend a job centre every week instead of every fortnight. And jobless single parents will have to start preparing for work once their youngest child turns three.
Treasury officials said they wanted to ‘change the entire mentality’ of job centres. Claimants will have to write a CV and start looking for a job before signing on – rather than the other way round.
Mr. Osborne also confirmed a strict cap on welfare payments from April 2015 that will cover housing benefit, tax credits, disability benefits and pensioner benefits. The state pension will be excluded..
I – Word Understanding
Job seeker – persons using this website to seek employment.
Fortnight – a period of two weeks.
Claimants – a formal demand for a payment or asserting a right (such as the ownership of a property).
Strict cap – exact limit.
II – Have your say
1. Few progressive countries government treasury like Italy, France, Canada and Australia face complaints about short delay (two weeks) of unemployed benefits payment.
2. The British government project of English proficiency test is stricly for 7 days.Does it make sense?
3. United Kingdom are flooded of unbeneficial immigrants from mostly African countries. The influx of asylum seekers in Australia is growing, the refugees came from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.The international human rights agreement authorized the refugees to enter, live, and work in a country.
