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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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David Bentley & Danny Rigg

New DWP health rules for Universal Credit claimants who are too ill to work

The DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) is tightening Universal Credit rules as part of a plan to get half a million people "back into work faster than ever before".

Under the Way to Work campaign, Universal Credit claimants will have to widen their job search from their preferred sector in the fourth week of their claim.

Currently, people have to do this from the three month mark.

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