The latest unemployment figures show the jobless total below the two-million mark for the first time since 2008.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said unemployment fell by 154,000 in the three months to August to 1.97 million, with the jobless rate falling by more than expected to 6% - its lowest level since October 2008.
But the figures also highlighted continuing concerns about wage growth - measured at just 0.7% on an annual basis between June and August.
It meant that earnings were still failing to keep pace with inflation despite annual living cost increases being calculated on Tuesday at just 1.2%.
The ONS statistics also showed that growth in employment had slowed to its weakest pace since May 2013 though it took the total in work to a new UK record of 30.7 million.
The fall in the number of people claiming unemployment benefits in September was the smallest since April last year, down 18,600 month on month.
There are fears the UK's economic recovery risks being damaged by renewed weakness globally - with some economists forecasting a new recession in the UK's biggest market, the eurozone.
Unemployment has fallen by 538,000 over the past year, the biggest annual reduction since records began in 1972.
Prime Minister David Cameron reacted to the figures by tweeting: "The biggest-ever fall in unemployment in history, taking it below two million, is great news. Our plan is working, but there's still much more to do."
The statistics showed progress on the crisis in youth unemployment - which covers 16 to 24-year-olds - easing by 88,000 over the quarter to 733,000.
There were 162,000 unemployed 16-and-17-year-olds, down by 11,000 on the previous three months.
But the number classed as economically inactive increased by 113,000 in the latest quarter to more than nine million - a figure that risks damaging the Government's attempts to bring down the UK's welfare bill.
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