And one in five of those registered with the Social Security department has been looking for work for more than a year.
The news comes as Chief Minister Ian Gorst revealed that he was considering increasing the five-year wait to qualify for open access to the job market to ten years, in order to relieve pressure on unemployed locals.
With uncertainty surrounding the online-based low-value consignment relief industry following the UK’s decision to close the loophole on which it was based, Social Security Minister Francis Le Gresley warned that things might get worse before they got better.
Full story in Monday’s JEP
