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Aug13
No prosecutions for New Deal Fraud
Categories: New Deal, dwp, new deal fraud, uk government; Feedback: 1 Comment
Keywords: a4e, Action 4 Employment, Department for Work and Pensions, dwp, dwp corruption, flexible new deal, fraud, maatwerk, New Deal, new deal fraud, new deal scandal, uk government, Working Links, YMCA Training
New Deal Scandal can reveal that the Department for Work and Pensions has no intention for making any prosecutions for prime contractors deliberately defrauding the system. The Department for Work and Pensions currently has no plans of stopping Flexible New Deal contracts being awarded to prime contractors who have previously defrauded the system on numerous occassions for the New Deal contracts. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Aug12
New Deal Fraud: 4 outstanding fraud investigations
Categories: New Deal, dwp, new deal fraud, uk government; Feedback: Be the first to comment
Keywords: dwp, fraud, Jim Knight, John McDonnell, New Deal, new deal fraud, new deal scandal, Pathways to Work
New Deal Scandal can reveal that as of the end of July 2009 there are 4 ongoing fraud investigations regarding New Deal and 1 regarding Pathways to Work. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jul6
New Deal fraud: the techniques used to rip off the taxpayer
Categories: Action 4 Employment, New Deal, Working Links, YMCA Training, dwp, new deal fraud; Feedback: 3 Comments
Keywords: dismissal, exiting, false declaration, fraud, leeching, misguidance fraud, misrepresentation fraud, new deal fraud, new deal scandal, penciling fraud, pre-signing fraud, time sheet fraud, windowing
Many New Deal providers are using a whole range of fraudulent techniques to receive money unlawfully from the Government. The Government generally isn’t interested in knowing about these techniques, they only recognise the fraud that is forging employer signatures. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jun28
A4e to lose Flexible New Deal contract for fraud: other training providers also under investigation
Categories: Action 4 Employment, New Deal, Working Links, dwp, flexible new deal; Feedback: 9 Comments
Keywords: a4e, Action 4 Employment, dwp, flexible new deal, fraud, government fraud, jobcentre plus, maatwerk, New Deal, unemployment
The Department for Work and Pensions has been investigating Action 4 Employment and at least 2 other undisclosed training providers for fraud over the last 13 months – this comes after Maatwerk had their contract terminated for fraud.
This means that even though they weren’t restricted or blacklisted from bidding for Flexible New Deal contracts: they will now lose the Flexible New Deal contracts after at least 20 cases of fraud have been discovered in May 2008 at A4e in Hull where two staff members falsified forms meant for the employer and also forged signatures on the forms in order to receive job outcome bonuses from DWP.
Action 4 Employment was also involved in a temporary job recruitment agency scam – thus forcing New Deal participants into temporary work which resulted in more job outcome bonuses from DWP.
Another New Deal provider has been forced to repay £48,000 for fraud – the name of the provider hasn’t been disclosed.
The DWP was happy to pay Pertemps PDG over 2 million when a report clearly stated fraud – in this instance no concerns other than as a report were raised.
Also, so far all fraud cases were consisting of forged signatures on forms and such like – the DWP have not yet picked up on timesheet abuses (paid to be there for x hours, as shown on timesheets, but participants are there for significantly less i.e. 10 hours instead of 30), dismissal abuses (dismissing participants for false or trivial reasons to receive full 13 weeks amount without them being there for even half that time), guaranteed jobs bonuses abuse (some participants have received a job offer before having to do the course starting 2-6 weeks after the course starts, providers still get job outcome payments intended as a bonus if they get the participant work, even if they had nothing to do with it) and future job outcome bonuses abuse (getting participants to enter an agreement where the provider has “permission” to contact any future employer after the course has ended to get job outcome bonus even though you got the job after the course unaided by them) to name a few.
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