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This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament

Rejected petition Benefit claimants should be made work for their money.

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The Govenrment should make benefit recipients, undertake social/community tasks to receive 'benefits', and it should be renamed the 'Social Wage'. After all 'benefits' should only be for peope who actually work.

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