A new pilot scheme will see mobile job centres popping up outside mosques in order to get more people into work.
The vans will also be appearing outside football matches and in retail parks to provide support to get adults into work.
It comes as DWP figures have revealed almost one third of people in the town in Greater Manchester are currently economically inactive.
The mobile Jobcentres, which will complement current brick and mortar sites, will be staffed by work coaches who will provide support with job searching and training opportunities.
The mobile job centres will be based around areas where unemployment is high
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Employment Minister Alison McGovern said: “Under our major employment reforms, we want to see everyone, in every corner of the country, become better off. This mobile Jobcentre is a perfect example of an inclusive and accessible DWP solution that ensures no one misses out on the job support they deserve.
“Getting more people back into work is a key part of our Plan for Change to deliver economic growth, create better opportunities and put more money into the pockets of working people.”
The service was first trialled at a Bolton Wanderers Football Club game last weekend to try and reach fans on match day.
It will be targeting Flintshire, Denbighshire and Wrexham, as well as Bolton, where unemployment is particularly high.
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It comes after Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said last week that there was “genuinely a problem” with people from the “Covid generation” saying they cannot face a proper day’s work.
She told ITV News that while 49 per cent of disability and sickness benefit claimants insist they could never work again, she believed that “more of these people could work.”
The Cabinet minister said that Britain will be spending an additional £20billion on sickness and disability benefits in five years’ time unless cuts were made.
However, reforms to cut £3bn from the welfare bill by postponing a crackdown that would have made it more difficult to claim benefits for mental health conditions were shelved .
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said last week that there was “genuinely a problem” with people from the “Covid generation” saying they cannot face a proper day’s work
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Ministers are focused on decreasing the number of working-age individuals who are jobless as a way to lower the benefits bill.
Government figures indicate that there has been a significant increase in the number of people out of work due to long-term sickness, with the current figure standing at 2.8 million, up from two million before the pandemic.