The number of households in the UK with no one over the age of 16 working has increased by 240,000 during the past year to 3.3 million, official figures showed today.
The Office for National Statistics also reported that the number of working-age people in so-called workless households jumped by 500,000 to 4.8 million in the year to June.
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