"Hardcore heroin and crack cocaine users could be jailed if they refuse to get treatment while receiving unemployment benefit.Jobless addicts who try to dodge the rules by hiding their habit will instead be deemed welfare cheats obtaining state handouts by deception.
They could be ordered to repay any cash received and in the worst cases charged with fraud, which carries a prison term.
Ministers are also considering switching anyone who is out of work because of drug use from sickness benefit to a new treatment allowance - in an attempt to shame them into finding a job."
Wow! Real action where needed! - It is all so exciting but for two minor factors which the government has failed to mention:
1] If brought in - it will NOT be enforced! [Remember the ASBO panacea?]
2] The European Human Rights legislation will be brought into play at any point where this attempt shows the faintest danger of registering a success.
LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036853/Get-clean-lose-benefits-junkies-told.html
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