Job seekers are expected to travel for three hours a day for work or face benefit sanctions under new Universal Credit rules, a Scottish MP has revealed.
Rules forcing claimants into a 90 minutes each way commute would leave people having to travel between Glasgow and Dundee on a daily basis to avoid losing benefits, David Linden MP said.
Linden, the SNP’s Work and Pensions spokesman, has slammed the Tory levelling up agenda as a “smoke and mirrors” exercise after the Department for Work and Pensions confirmed claimants are expected to take up job offers miles away from their home.
