The Prime Minister is visiting Essex today to launch a nationwide scheme to help catapult the long-term unemployed back into work.
David Cameron, joined by fellow cabinet minister and Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan-Smith, will introduce the Help to Work scheme.
Number 10 will not disclose where Mr Cameron will be in the county until after his visit.
The 47-year-old said: "A key part of our long-term economic plan is to move to full employment, making sure that everyone who can work is in work.
"We are seeing record levels of employment in Britain, as more and more people find a job, but we need to look at those who are persistently stuck on benefits.
"This scheme will provide more help than ever before, getting people into work and on the road to a more secure future."
The Help to Work scheme will focus on giving Jobcentre staff a new range of options to support the hardest hit to get off benefits and into work.
Number 10 says under the scheme, Jobcentre advisers will be able to provide intensive coaching, order people to visit the adviser daily and order them to work in the community for up to six months.
It says there are currently more than 600,000 job vacancies in the UK economy at any one time.
Those who fail to participate in the scheme will face potential sanctions that could see them lose their benefits for a period of time.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said: "Everyone with the ability to work should be given the support and opportunity to do so.
"The previous system wrote too many people off, which was a huge waste of potential for those individuals as well as for their families and the country as a whole. We are now seeing record numbers of people in jobs and the largest fall in long-term unemployment since 1998.
"But there's always more to do, which is why we are introducing this new scheme to provide additional support to the very small minority of claimants who have been unemployed for a number of years. "
