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Jul1
Abolish the Jobseekers Agreement
Categories: Welfare Reform, dwp; Feedback: 2 Comments
Keywords: Equality, Jobseekers Act 1995, Jobseekers agreement, jobseekers allowance, jsa, Welfare Reform
As from today the New Deal Scandal network will be also promoting the abolishment of the Jobseekers Agreement (JSAg), an proposed act of Welfare Reform View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jul17
Jobseekers Act 1995 (as amended)
Categories: Welfare Reform, dwp, uk government; Feedback: 4 Comments
Keywords: Jobseekers Act 1995, jobseekers allowance
If you are seeking work and claiming Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) you would have heard about the Jobseekers Act 1995 however you are probably more familiar with it being written and acknowledged as the Jobseekers Act 1995 (as amended).
What does this mean? Read on for a brief explanation on the law that applies to you. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jul15
Jobseekers Allowance Scandal
Categories: New Deal, Welfare Reform, dwp, uk government; Feedback: 19 Comments
Keywords: dwp, Jobseeker Agreement, jobseekers allowance, jsa, low income, poverty, unemployment benefit
Jobseekers Allowance: the Scandal (A MUST READ FOR ALL JOBSEEKERS)
How many scandals can there possibly be?! Its becoming crazy now…
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Jul14
Jobseekers Future: inverted
Categories: Welfare Reform, dwp, human rights, uk government; Feedback: 3 Comments
Keywords: benefit sanctions, jobcentre plus, jobseekers, Unemployment Police
What is with the unemployment system?
“Assaults” on staff are to be dealt with by benefit sanctions and not by police.
Awkward customers are to be removed from the Jobcentre Plus office by police after being held by security.
Assaults are crimes, it is a police matter. Exceeding your time slot or talking back to staff isn’t!
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Jun30
New Deal ends in half of Great Britain
Categories: New Deal, Welfare Reform, dwp, flexible new deal; Feedback: 2 Comments
Keywords: flexible new deal, fnd, labour, New Deal, new deal fraud
Since Monday, in half the country there will be no new referrals to New Deal. This could be due to implementing the Flexible New Deal or due to revelations of New Deal fraud we recently reported, as the Flexible New Deal (if contracts are signed on time) are not due to begin until October allowing a 13 week programme to commence this week.
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Jul21
New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform: network snippet
Categories: Action 4 Employment, New Deal, Welfare Reform, Working Links, YMCA Training, dwp, human rights, new deal fraud, uk government; Feedback: Be the first to comment
Keywords: a4e, a4e fraud, Action 4 Employment, Dencora House, Department for Work and Pensions, dwp, flexible new deal, jobcentre plus, Jobseekers Act 1995, jobseekers allowance, New Deal, new deal fraud, Working Links, YMCA Training
Just a brief overall of recent content on ”New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform” and “Ipswich Unemployed Action” blogs. This might be easier to some then using Wordpress pages as some sticky posts make normal ones difficult to see sometimes. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jul29
New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform: network snippet
Categories: Action 4 Employment, New Deal, Welfare Reform, YMCA Training, dwp, emma harrison, human rights, uk government; Feedback: Be the first to comment
Keywords: a4e, a4e fraud, Action 4 Employment, Dencora House, Department for Work and Pensions, dwp, flexible new deal, Housing Benefit, jobcentre plus, Jobseekers Act 1995, jobseekers allowance, New Deal, new deal fraud, Working Links, YMCA Training
Just a brief overall of recent content on ”New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform” blog. This might be easier to some then using WordPress pages as some sticky posts make normal ones difficult to see sometimes. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jun30
New Deal should be subjected to a Serious Fraud Office inquiry
Categories: Action 4 Employment, New Deal, Welfare Reform, Working Links, YMCA Training, dwp, flexible new deal; Feedback: 2 Comments
Keywords: a4e, Action 4 Employment, flexible new deal, MP expenses, New Deal, Pertemps, Reeds in Partnership, serious fraud office, taxpayers money, Working Links
All New Deal training providers, past and present should be subject to an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. The fraud investigation can’t be conducted by the Department for Work and Pensions as they also fall under the suspicion of fraudulent activity and other acts of unlawful misconduct and requires an outside independent investigation. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Aug4
New Jobcentre Plus Chief Executive is pro compulsory national volunteering
Categories: Welfare Reform, dwp, human rights, uk government; Feedback: 9 Comments
Keywords: Darra Singh OBE, dwp, jobcentre plus, Lesley Strathie, Mel Groves, National Service
New Deal Scandal can reveal that the new Jobcentre Plus CEO, Darra Singh OBE, was one of the masterminds behind a new National Service system where in particular young unemployed people are to be forced to “volunteer” or lose their benefits. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Oct25
Save the Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance
Categories: Benefit Busters, Welfare Reform, dwp, human rights, uk government; Feedback: Be the first to comment
Keywords: Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance
SAVE DLA AND ALL DISABILITY BENEFITS
Tony GreensteinHaving already abolished Incapacity Benefit, New Labour has now made it clear that it wants to scrap ALL disability benefits. On July 14th New Labour published a Green Paper, Shaping the Future of Care. Reading through the spin, the message is clear. Disability Living Allowance is ‘inefficient’ ‘poorly targeted’ [because it’s not means tested!] and therefore has to go towards paying for a new national care service.
Disability Living Allowance is the best benefit there is. If your needs are great enough, if you cannot care and need help with bodily functions for part or all of the day (and night) you are eligible for Disability Living Allowance. There are 3 bands – lower, middle and higher. Receipt of Disability Living Allowance does not overlap with other benefits and is not counted as taxable income.
The result is that people who are the most vulnerable and sick in this society see a small increase in their standard of living. This is what New Labour hate most of all. The proposal is to use the money for ‘individual budgets’ run by private companies, whereby the disabled, in agreement with the local authority, can spend the money on care. Of course they’ll never actually see the money!!
The whole system will be discretionary and, of course, liable to cuts. Anyone with any experience of the existing system of individual budgets knows what a nightmare the whole system is.
The Green Paper talks about abolishing Attendance Allowance which is paid to those 65 and over (Attendance Allowance is the equivalent of the care component of Disability Living Allowance). Instead they intend to force the elderly to pay £20,000 to insure themselves!! The Green Paper talks about replacing not just Attendance Allowance but ‘disability benefits’ – a clear sign that it is not just Attendance Allowance which is in their sights. And the Green Paper dresses up its purpose with the usual New Labour waffle such as proclaiming that “our aspiration (is) to build a stronger, fairer Britain.”
The Attlee Government of 1945-51, which was a right-wing cold war Labour government, introduced the building blocs of the welfare state which New Labour is intent on dismantling. They introduced the 1948 National Assistance Act intended to act as a safety net for those who fell below a certain level of income. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jun10
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell MP
Categories: New Deal, Welfare Reform; Feedback: Be the first to comment
Keywords: Cabinet, Department for Work and Pensions, dwp, flexible new deal, james purnell, James Purnell MP, jcp, MP, New Deal, Secretary of State, uk government, Welfare Reform
Well, not any more…
(former) Secretary of State: James Purnell MP
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Jul10
As the entire UK goes crazy with shocking new plans of changing welfare in the country, New Deal Scandal reveals that the worse is still to come! You thought the Welfare Reform Bill was bad? Read on… View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jun8
Welfare Reform: Criticism
Categories: Welfare Reform; Feedback: 3 Comments
Keywords: benefits, dwp, esa, jcp, jobcentre, jsa, Welfare Reform
I was reading a great article on Welfare Reform (the Welfare Reform Bill 2009) however I greatly disagreed with the points made in the article so I decided to quote sections of it and comment!
The Welfare Reform Bill is to be a tough piece of legislation that will compel people in meeting with their obligations. It comes as no surprise and is long overdue. One of the first targets will be in removing 1 million people off Incapacity Benefit and into work. The entire benefits system is to be streamlined with Income Support being replaced with a leaner ‘out of work benefits’ system. The time has come by which those who “fiddle” the system should take account of what their obligations and duties are.
Removing one million people off “Incapacity Benefit”? Incapacity Benefit doesn’t exist. To the best of my knowledge the Welfare Reform Act 2007 replaced Incapacity Benefit and Income Support with an Employment and Support Allowance in 2008.
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Aug10
Work for your Benefit: aren't we getting a little bit worked up over nothing?
Categories: New Deal, Welfare Reform; Feedback: 2 Comments
Keywords: dwp, ETF, flexible new deal, New Deal, vso, work for your benefit, workfare
So Welfare Reforms plans are out and so is Flexible New Deal… they plan to make us work for below that National Minimum Wage; but surely aren’t we getting worked up about nothing? View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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- The Work Programme FrameworkAs taken from a DWP document: The Work Programme Framework Introduction to the Work Programme The Coalition Agreement, published on 12 May 2010, set out a number of major welfare to work reforms, including a core integrated welfare to work programme and a number of measures designed to support people to find employment. These measures [...] […]
- The Big Issue: helping the homeless or a scam?As co-founder of the Big Issue, John Bird, has recently made a big statement about slashing benefits, and today I make a big statement about the Big Issue. This isn’t a retaliation remark at all, as a human being he can have his own opinion but after a discussion on sister site Ipswich Unemployed Action, [...] […]
- The Future (Please Read)The Work Programme is approaching (still some time to go mind you) and will replace New Deal and Flexible New Deal. This is a post to specify what changes I propose throughout the “network”. Flexible New Deal / New Deal related sites All these will be retired. Whether or not they will disappear off the [...] […]
- Cant get a job? Immigrants rule UK JobsIt has been revealed that in some areas of the UK, immigrants make up to almost 7 in 10 jobs. If you cannot secure a job, perhaps that is why! Place Percentage (of jobs by immigrants) Rough ratio Newham (“London 2012″), London 69.5 7 in 10 people Brent, London 57.7 3 in 5 people Westminster, [...] […]
- A4e and the Data Protection Act violationA4e have managed to lose 24,000 peoples details. This not under New Deal, Flexible New Deal or any other welfare contract that they have but the Community Legal Advice Centre contract. This shows deep concern about how they do not care about peoples personal information – so if you have A4e as a provider or another [...] […]
- Work for Your Benefit (WfYB) provider announced tomorrowDWP says the successful Work for Your Benefit provider will be announced on 21st June 2010 when the contract is awarded. That is tomorrow. […]
- Welfare to Work: Overpaid, Overcrowded and Out of touch!Flexible New Deal providers are greatly overpaid, overcrowded and out of touch with reality. The 5 year contracts:- terminated to solely 18 months; where providers were paid top heavy service fees, resulted in rather unrequired investment almost upfront to deliver the contracts over the longer period. As the contract is now being scrapped this has [...] […]
- Jobcentre Plus staff Vs Unemployed ProfessionalsAs published in todays Sun newspaper… a report in comparisons between public sector organisations (such as DWP’s Jobcentre Plus) and private businesses… Sector Private Public Total Employed 22,000,000 7,000,000 Pay (Average) £19,932 £22,417 (30% better off an hour) Pensions 15% of public sector workers gain in better pensions Hours worked 23% more hours work […]
- Barack Obama: stupid anti-British racistIt was hailed a miracle! The USA having their first black president (although solely a puppet and only half black), light at the end of the tunnel for a very racist country to start again as a fair society and hope to end the severe rich-poor divide in the country we all know as corporate [...] […]
- Former Labour MP Nick Palmer signs onNick Palmer, a former Labour MP for Broxstowe, who spent 13 years in Parliament and speaks 6 languages, has a PhD in maths and loves topping up his huge former MP salary and MP expenses doing surveys at approx £50 per time, is reported to be signing on for Jobseekers Allowance.Nick Palmer, 60, who also [...] […]
- Coalition Programme for GovernmentWhy have they just merged a couple of party manifestos? I want more information on the specific issues, not a few bullet points! We need a protest and a new election… don’t want these *****s in charge for next 5 years! Snippets 19. JOBS AND WELFARE The Government believes that we need to encourage responsibility [...] […]
- New Deal Complaint unofficial fansite on facebookA google search has made me aware of a facebook group…. Name: “Newdeal” should NOT be mandatory Category: Business – Employment & Work Description: I have recently been made to go on the government “Newdeal” scheme, and can only say I was disgusted by this supposed training course, everyone I spoke to had a complaint. [...] […]
- Jobcentre Plus: Nude Webcam PerformersJobcentre Plus are advertising for nude webcam performers @ £100 per day. Male and Female candidates must have a computer and broadband connection and be available working at home. These “nationwide” adverts are targeted. I had searched all jobs in Ipswich and Colchester – when I tried Felixstowe this job was available – but wasn’t [...] […]
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