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Confessions of a middle-class jobseeker

12 April 2025

9:00 AM

12 April 2025

9:00 AM

Having been made redundant from a job in the City, I could have afforded not to sign on at all. But since my P45 showed I had paid well over £40,000 in income tax last year, I didn’t feel desperately guilty about clawing back £90 a week in New Style Jobseeker’s Allowance.

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