Single parents will have to seek work to get benefits once their youngest child is seven from 2010, in new proposals announced by Peter Hain, the work and pensions secretary, last Wednesday (18 July). Currently, single parents do not have to seek work until their youngest child is 16, with the age due to fall to 12 from October 2008. The government also announced that claimants out of work for more than 12 months will have to undertake community work or lose benefit.
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