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A year has gone by since the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) published any new data on the New Deal 50 Plus welfare-to-work programme. Up till April 2003 nearly 100,000 unemployed people over 50, who had volunteered to participate, had been helped into work by the programme. Some 12% of these had chosen to become self-employed but nevertheless still qualified for an Employment Credit of £60 a week for a year - along with anyone else on the scheme - whose job was paying less than £15,000. Evaluations of New Deal 50+ showed that a very high percentage (circa 80%) of those helped by the programme remained in work even after their Employment Credit finished at the end of 12 months. Indeed in this ‘sustainability’ aspect it was one of the most successful of any of the New Deal schemes. Information on job starts and take up of the Training Grant – another of the scheme’s components – was published regularly. Then last April the Employment Credit was changed to a Working Tax Credit, the value of which was based on household income – not just on the salary the job taken paid. TAEN, and other organisations, warned this was a retrograde step and would adversely impact the success of the programme. Were we right ? It seems so, but as no statistics have been published since the change, no one – except the DWP/Jobcentre Plus - knows for sure and by how much the numbers of unemployed 50+ year olds being helped into work by ND50+ has fallen away. The chances are that in this instance, no news is not good news….. |
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