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they are classing workfare as full time hours. so im not wrong.if tje unemployment figures are so good how come out put is falling it dont add up]• The government claims unemployment is falling, despite minimal economic growth. In fact, the government's fiddling the unemployment figures, as usual, but by a new method: counting people on "workfare" as employed – as confirmed by Department of Work and Pensions and Office for National Statistics replies to freedom of information requests published on the Informed Consent blog. Workfare makes unemployed people work unpaid for private firms, including Conservative party donors, or else lose their benefits. The government's own research shows that it doesn't improve chances of finding paid work.

ONS figures and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development research show half the people counted as newly employed are on workfare, government training schemes, or are self-employed, mostly in part-time, low-paid jobs like gardening and cleaning, in which they may be worse off as they lose benefits. Unemployment was at 2.51m when this government came to power in May 2010. It's now at 2.53m, even on their fiddled figures.