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Family Credit can enable most households to be better off in employment, but it can be marginal, and lack of information and delays in benefit-receipt, often deter people from taking advantage of it.

The Guarantee Group are those aged between 18-25 and unemployed for between six months and a year. The Aim Group are those aged 18-50 and unemployed for more than two years. Source for figures ET leavers survey Oct 1989-Sept 1990 reported by Unemployment Unit (1991 ).

All these schemes have been the victims of a steady decline in the real value of benefits of participation.

The remainder are in educational establishments.

Target groups are called the Guarantee Group of claimants aged 18-25 and unemployed for between six months and a year and the Aim Group of claimants over 18 who have been unemployed for two years.

See Unemployment Unit Working Brief , August 1991, page 3-4, for evidence of the formulation of this position .

See Loy (1990) for details of this approach.