Drug testing details a ‘distraction’ – Labour

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Beneficiaries who recreationally use drugs face having their benefit cut if they don't clean up and find work.

Beneficiaries who recreationally use drugs face having their benefit cut if they don't clean up and find work.

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15/10/2012 12:03:11 p.m.

kim wrote:

thats good drug test,benifit gets cut,who loses,oh thats right the kids again

1/09/2012 2:48:30 p.m.

concern wrote:

oh dam here they go again....whats really the problem is who cares you on the dole cause of no income stastics so whats the problem longest they do whats expected of them and what...so whats all the fuss....this is the real world people bugger the politics who needs them.....

30/08/2012 2:15:54 a.m.

Hone wrote:

"This is just punishing people for being poor, which is one of our main points," he said. "We're not testing the population at-large that receives government money; we're not testing people on scholarships, or state contractors. So why these people? It's obvious-- because they're poor." - Derek Newton, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida after the a similar law was made in Florida and 2% of all beneficiaries tested positive.