Definition of lifestyle choice to sit on out of work benefits

Don Paskini made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Work and Pensions

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From: Don Paskini

13 September 2010

Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

I would like to know:

1. What definition does the Department of Work and Pensions use to
determine whether someone has "made the lifestyle choice" to "sit
on out-of-work benefits"?

2. Who is responsible for deciding whether or not someone has made
the lifestyle choice to sit on out-of-work benefits?

3. How many people are currently "making the lifestyle choice to
sit on out-of-work benefits"?

4. How long does the Department estimate it will take to ensure
that the money will not be there to fund this "lifestyle choice"?

Yours faithfully,

Don Paskini

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13 September 2010

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From: DWP Adelphi Freedom-of-Information-Request
Department for Work and Pensions

29 September 2010


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Dear Don Paskini

Please see attached response to your FoI request.

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Mr Taylor left an annotation ( 2 October 2010)

The DWP have not supplied the information requested other than to state the government have been "trapping people in worklessness" (sic)

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