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SW employment rate remains high despite increase in claimant count

More than 435k people claiming Universal Credit in the West Country but 2.73m are individuals still have a job

Warehouse jobs are available according to the DWP

The employment rate in the South West is at a “near record high” of 76.5% even though the number of people claiming benefits continues to rise, new figures reveal.

The Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) statistics show that 2.73million people are in work in the South West, with an employment rate higher than the 海角视频’s 75.3%.

That is 20,000 higher than the figure given by the Government in September.

The unemployment rate for the region, 4.1% equalling 17,000 people, is also lower than that of the nation as a whole, which stands at 4.8% and has gone up by 0.3% in a month.

But the figure dates from October, before the end of the Job Retention “furlough” Scheme, which closed on October 31 but was then extended until March 2021.

And the DWP revealed the number of people claiming Universal Credit (UC) in the West Country was 435,448 in October, a rise of 4,155. The figure is more than double the number of claimants a year ago

In Plymouth the figure had grown from 26,643 to 26,947. The figure in pre-lockdown March was 16,050.

Exeter’s claimant count rose from 8,641 to 8,736 in October. In Cornwall the number claiming UC increased from 48,382 to 48,591. Torbay saw the claimant count rise from 13,566 to 13,707.