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2.8 mn people seek job-related benefit claims spike in UK; up by 25% in May

The claimant count includes both those people who are employed with low income or hours and those who are actually unemployed

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The statistics agency also revealed that in the three months to April, total pay fell in real terms for the first time since January 2018.

Reuters
The number of people in the UK claiming job-related benefits increased by a monthly 23.3 per cent in May to 2.8 million, according to official data released Tuesday.
The level of the claimant count as measured by Britain's Office for National Statistics is also 125.9 per cent higher than in March, the month in which the country was put into lockdown as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The claimant count includes both those people who are employed with low income or hours and those who are actually unemployed.
Further indications of the lockdown's impact on the British labor market came with the

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