Job centres Pay Employers

Ladywriter1968

I wanted to know if this is true or not?

Do the job centre pay an employer a certain amount of money when they employ a person who applied for a job at the job centre if this person has been unemployed for a certain amount of time?

I tried looking on their site but cant find this anywhere.

i_want_to_believe

The £1,000 Recruitment Subsidy paid to employers for recruiting an eligible person who has been claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance for more than six months is being withdrawn at the end of June.
The subsidy was introduced in April last year as part of the Labour government’s recession response measures. Jobcentre Plus points out that it was a temporary measure and was due to end in March 2011 anyway.
The decision to end it earlier is part of the new government’s package to cut public spending by £6.2 billion this year.
Employers can claim the subsidy for eligible people starting work by 30 June and must submit their claim to Jobcentre Plus by 20 July.


HTH

Ladywriter1968

i_want_to_believe wrote: »

The £1,000 Recruitment Subsidy paid to employers for recruiting an eligible person who has been claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance for more than six months is being withdrawn at the end of June.
The subsidy was introduced in April last year as part of the Labour government’s recession response measures. Jobcentre Plus points out that it was a temporary measure and was due to end in March 2011 anyway.
The decision to end it earlier is part of the new government’s package to cut public spending by £6.2 billion this year.
Employers can claim the subsidy for eligible people starting work by 30 June and must submit their claim to Jobcentre Plus by 20 July.


HTH

Thank you for the information, I think you have answered a few of my questions actually.

Hammyman

Ladywriter1968 wrote: »

I wanted to know if this is true or not?

Do the job centre pay an employer a certain amount of money when they employ a person who applied for a job at the job centre if this person has been unemployed for a certain amount of time?

I tried looking on their site but cant find this anywhere.

Yes. There have been several schemes on the go paying up to as much as £120 a week for a 6 month period in the past.

Ladywriter1968

Hammyman wrote: »

Yes. There have been several schemes on the go paying up to as much as £120 a week for a 6 month period in the past.

Thanks for info.

I take it this is stopping soon though from what I have already read?

Ladywriter1968

Hammyman wrote: »

Yes. There have been several schemes on the go paying up to as much as £120 a week for a 6 month period in the past.

Thanks for info.

I take it this is stopping soon though from what I have already read?