Work for your Benefit

This is website was originally designed for Labour's Work for Your Benefit (WfYB) scheme. This workfare pilot was scrapped by the Conservatives who have designed their own multiple workfare schemes including the Work Programme and Mandatory Work Activity.

We are still going to use the "work for your benefit" title because its the work for your benefit schemes made under the Jobseekers Act 1995 in Section 17A which is in force. The Work Programme Network has launched this website specifically because of Section 17A.

This is of vital importance because a jobseeker isn't legally obligated to work for their benefits at all.

If you plan to ignore the advice on refusal of the workfare schemes and attend the Work Programme or Mandatory Work Activity, and you wish to blog about your experiences we will be able to allow you to use a domain for it and will happily host the site too. Simply contact us on the below link outlining your proposal.

If lawfully set to attend a workfare scheme, Jobcentre Plus cannot force a claimant of Jobseekers Allowance to engage in performing labour for their Jobseekers Allowance benefit payments. If a jobseeker chooses to observe (thus not failing to attend or refusing the scheme entirely) he or she cannot be punished for not earning his or hers benefit as it isn't a condition of claiming Jobseekers Allowance to do so.