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Chance to Work Guarantee is aimed at reducing barriers to 2.4 million currently claiming benefits and is a key part of Back to Work plans

With stricter conditionality and sanctions, the new plan looks set to limit people’s access to benefits more than it improves their hopes of getting a job

Benefits claimants who fail to look for work will lose Universal Credit as part of a crackdown to tackle a “wrong economically and wrong morally” waste of potential.

Sarah has tried many times to find a job that is right for her. The 20-year-old, who lives with her father in Birmingham, has worked as a cleaner at a GP practice, a carer for the elderly and has done housekeeping and kitchen roles at a hotel.

Labour’s “soft touch” approach to benefits sanctions would cost taxpayers billions of pounds, the Conservatives have claimed.

Mel Stride said Labour’s ‘reckless’ plans will leave fit-for-work claimants dodging employment at £2bn expense to the public purse

The Chancellor is expected to announce a cut to inheritance tax in Wednesday's autumn statement as he puts a squeeze on benefits

The UK aims to tackle long-term unemployment with its newly launched Back to Work Plan.

Jeremy Hunt has warned benefit claimants who are fit to work but dont get a job will face strict sanctions in a major new crackdown on shirkers.