About 300,000 British people without jobs or on very low wages are not claiming benefits they are entitled to, according to a report from the Resolution Foundation.
They are disproportionately likely to be older women or young men, who are missing out on at least £73 a week and potentially far more. Many appear not to claim benefits because they have other means of support – for example living with a partner in work or with parents – the report warns that some people, particularly women, are put off by a benefits system viewed as complex and overly punitive.
The study says that while the bulk of the group not claiming benefits they are entitled to have no work at all, a significant minority do work, but for sufficiently few hours that they could still claim jobseeker’s allowance or, where it is in use, universal credit, which replaces a series of existing benefits.
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