Tory proposals would restrict how benefits are spent by people who are long-term unemployed, preventing them from using payments to buy alcohol and cigarettes.
The plans would also reduce benefits for people who are considered able to work but have been unable to maintain a job. The proposals therefore combine restrictions on spending with cuts to payments for some long-term jobless people.
The supplied details do not set out how the restrictions would operate, which benefits would be affected or when the changes could be introduced. They also do not provide further information about the proposed reductions for people able to work who have failed to hold down a job.
