Unemployment falls in East Lancashire

11:27am Wednesday 20th June 2012 in Business

UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen in East Lancashire in the past month, bucking the national trend, new figures released this morning revealed.

There are now 355 fewer people claiming job seeker’s allowance in the area. In total 13,213 are claiming the benefit.

In Blackburn with Darwen there are 4,172 people unemployed, down by eight on the previous month.

In Burnley the figure is 2,853 in May, down from 2,924 the previous month.

The biggest fall was in Hyndburn where 165 fewer people claimed unemployment benefit in May, down from 2,071.

There were also falls in Pendle, down by 56 to 2,136, Rossendale, down by 22 to 485, and Ribble Valley, down 22 to 485.

Comments(9)

b12simon says...
11:35am Wed 20 Jun 12

It's a drop in the bucket but hopefully part of a trend ...

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GAC says...
11:45am Wed 20 Jun 12

so whats the actual fall in people out of work ?? not just being booted off of jobseekers on to somoething else ?

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porky06 says...
11:53am Wed 20 Jun 12

could 355 people have died in that time?

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swizz says...
12:09pm Wed 20 Jun 12

Schools and colleges will be finishing for thousands soon. My Son has tried but has had no joy in either getting an apprenticeship or job and his final day at college is this Friday. I think we'll see a huge rise soon.

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madari says...
12:40pm Wed 20 Jun 12

porky06 wrote:
could 355 people have died in that time?
Madari the snake charmer says:

Or retired on state pension???

They know how to massage the figures and mislead joe Public!!

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JayEss says...
12:52pm Wed 20 Jun 12

swizz wrote:
Schools and colleges will be finishing for thousands soon. My Son has tried but has had no joy in either getting an apprenticeship or job and his final day at college is this Friday. I think we'll see a huge rise soon.
THIS ^

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frank says...
1:27pm Wed 20 Jun 12

the numbers have only gone down because poeple have grown old and died trying to find work. ;)

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Good call says...
10:53pm Wed 20 Jun 12

Meanwhile.......
"Senior jobcentre executives have warned staff of the risk of benefit claimants attempting suicide as controversial changes to sickness benefits are being pushed through"

http://m.guardian.co
.uk/society/2012/jun
/20/jobcentre-superv
isors-suicide-risk-b
enefit-claimants?cat
=society&type=articl
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shytalk says...
8:21am Fri 22 Jun 12

unemployment down,people claiming benefits up..Someones telling porkies. Either that or there are a lot of people being forced into slave labour by the jobcentre on workfare...What do you think?

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