Posting mainly for the very good first comment on this article, which queries how they might actually achieve 50,000 fewer jobseeker recipients in six years when the population will grow, many recipients are either already working and can’t get more hours, or have health conditions limiting or preventing them from working.

The answer of course is to game the KPI like a good CEO as it only measure numbers of recipients, not the actual outcomes you’d want as a result - people into secure and sustainable work.

Expect more hoops to jump through and more punitive measures to discourage people from getting support or kicking them off to juice the numbers.

Its particularly fucked up when you think about how as a system, we require unemployment to control inflation. So we’re creating unemployment and then punishing people for being subjected to it.