Two things stood out. Only transitions onto the unemployment benefit have dropped - all other benefits are 'business as usual', including a 45% increase in transitions to sickness since 2000. So much for Labour's reforms to DPB and incapacity benefits.
This is more interesting. Look at the pre-benefit employment history and observe the remarkable homogeneity of the data. Doesn't matter which benefit, the (average) individual transiting onto it has a patchy work history.
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Labour likes having people on benefits because beneficiaries are beholden to the state and provide a justification for the theft that is taxation. They also provide a justification for bigger bureaucracies, full of bureaucrats who are beholden to the state.
http://kiwipolemicist.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/why-has-government-use-of-floor-space-increased-by-42-in-five-years/
According to those figures 10% of the total beneficiaries where "transitions onto 'unknown' benefit type" how can you have 10% (approx 17,500)people in transition?
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