Ms Susanne Rogers:

I have only read research from the UK. I have definitely seen reports from there on exactly what Ms O'Brien was saying. Obviously benefits are different, but once a person is on an allowance payment and looking for work - jobseeker's benefit is also reliant on the person looking for work but there is not quite as much checking in - in the UK the pressure was to take any job. There definitely has been research done on that. Once a person is into that sort of system they need to be seen to be looking to work and there is pressure to take any job. I was looking at the same sort of things, such as whether the thresholds for housing or other supports are a barrier and, as Ms O'Brien said, the move from a weekly social welfare payment to a monthly wage. It is about those kind of issues.