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24 MILLION PEOPLE CLAIM AT LEAST ONE DWP BENEFIT - BUT A JOBCENTRE CHANGE IS COMING FOR MANY OF THEM 07:34, 30 May 2025 The Department for Work and Pensions is set to make a major Jobcentre

change for over 20 million people on benefits. 24 million people claim at least one DWP benefit - but a Jobcentre change is coming for many of them. Under a DWP shake-up, the Labour Party

government has confirmed Jobcentres will no longer force people into ‘any job’ available. Alison McGovern promises long-term career support in wake of Labour’s significant cuts to disability

benefits “I don’t blame anybody for being scared or worried about it because given what’s happened with changes to disability benefits before, I understand that,” she said. READ MORE LLOYDS

BANK BRINGS IN BIG CHANGE AND ANYONE WHO IS IN A 'COUPLE' WILL BENEFIT “One of the things that broke me was reading people say that they thought ‘no one would want them,’” she

said. “I cannot live with the idea that there’s people in this country who think that no one wants them.” “Nobody is ever going to make a film of I, Daniel Blake, but the reverse,” McGovern

said. “But what I would like is a person comes into the jobcentre who has perhaps not worked for some years and … they are given the time so that they can tell their whole story. Jobcentres

will then be able to pick up the phone to tailored specific support for that person’s barriers, then support once they are in work as well. We’ve got to see the whole person.” Article

continues below She said: “The Tories used to talk about ABC: ‘Any job, Better job, Career’. I think that if you think about the career [first] … If we can get people into an NHS job where

they’re more likely to move on and move up, then that is far better for them.” “Now, that tells me that there’s an issue,” she said. “We have to pay our debt to the Covid generation … I

worry particularly about young people, and I think there has not been enough discussion or understanding of what Covid took from young people.” “I don’t blame colleagues for listening to

their constituents who are fearful,” McGovern said. “I also look at the reality of our economy,” she said. Article continues below “And I know that the social security system is designed as

a kind of bulwark against poverty and to help us smooth life events over time. That only works well when you’ve got an economy that supports people’s living standards. “[The] social security

system can never overcome the sort of deep inadequacies that there are in our economy. What we need is to change our economy, make sure that people have got chances and choices and

opportunity ... "So I think these changes are necessary. I know that the job is much bigger than that.”