Rejected petition People on benefits should work for their community to earn the benefits they receive.

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Everyone needs to work to earn for a living, so why people on benefits can live for free and not worry about getting a job or doing what the rest of us does? work?

Everyone who uses the system for longer than 12 months, should be employed by local councils to help their communities by cleaning streets, picking up rubbish, looking after parks and any other general work. This would force them to learn what it means to work, to look for jobs if they not satisfied with what they do and will help local communities with the service they would provide.

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Date submitted 16 August 2011
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