Companies responsible for the government's controversial employment scheme have neglected disabled jobseekers to focus on easier-to-help claimants, a report revealed today.

The public accounts committee analysed the performance of work programme providers and established that a whopping 90 per cent of employment and support allowance claimants across the country were yet to find work.

Committee chair Margaret Hodge said: "Evidence shows that differential payments have not stopped contractors from focusing on easier-to-help individuals and parking harder-to-help claimants, often those with a range of disabilities including mental health challenges.