Tuesday 5 February 2013

Read It And Weep 4


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2013

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Forced Labour (WP/WF/WCA), Welfare, Entitlements and General

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Lord Fraud’s Debt Trap Has Been Abandoned As He Begs Local Councils For Help
 
More people have no qualifications in unemployment blackspots
 
CPAG responds to consultation on child poverty measurement
 
Another charity commits not to use workfare
 
Shocking figures reveal the growth in UK’s wealth gap
 
More claims that the work programme is cheating disabled people and the taxpayer
 
Bedroom tax ‘won’t work in Liverpool’
 
Bedroom Tax row grows as Nicola Sturgeon claims Westminster not working for Scotland
 
Scrap ‘fitness tests’ targeting sick and disabled people and bring the work back in-house say PCS Union
 
Back to Work Programme
 
Subway sack New Addington woman by text message 'after she complains over unfair pay' (CT)
 
Jersey minister plans sanctions against people leaving jobs early (BBC)

Betrayal/Collusion

Benefits fears for non-net users 

6th February 2013: HB Circular confirms proposed benefit uprating from April 2013
 
Housing Benefit Circular

Jobcentre Staff Are Not Social Workers Or Doctors Yet They Now Have More Power Over Vulnerable Lives
 
The Great Social Fund Robbery

Social Housing Bosses To Be Paid Thousands Per Meeting Whilst Tenants Face Homelessness
 
Bedroom Tax – Cameron’s bogus argument over fairness at PMQs
 
Bedroom Tax – Time for some facts about housing
 
Housing – The false private rented data published by Eric Pickles

Homeless Families Living in £3000 Per Week Hotels Due to Housing Benefit Reforms
 
Homeless Families Living in £3000 Per Week Hotels Due to Housing Benefit Reforms

Squaring Up to The Bedroom Tax: Resistance Grows Around the UK

Bedroom Tax: Work Longer To Keep Spare Room, Says Pensions Minister – BBC News

Bedroom Tax – The private landlord doesn’t do disability! An equality challenge?
 
Bedroom Tax – Radio 4 Today Programme and the Gruffalo with webbed feet and forked tongue
 
Bedroom Tax – Is it Abuse? (I dont mean abusive I mean Abuse!)
 
Bedroom Tax – How Cameron has lied to and shafted pensioners

The jobs gap – will retail be the next mining?

 
Client Declaration Forms 
 
Triage Central Ltd Client Declarations Collection
 
Ingeus respond to my complaint 
 
Tick Tock - Watch that Clock! Is it Game Over at 21 for Unemployed?
 
A new ally in the quest to change the WCA

MPs criticise Work Capability Assessment

Mark Hoban: A message isn’t scaremongering if it’s true

Scaremongering? 
 
Damning Report On DWP’s Benefit Assessment Contract With Atos Healthcare Published
 
DWP Must Get To Grips With Benefit Testing, Says Hodge

More spending cuts on the way if coalition is to meet savings targets

Cameron wants care and compassion? He'd do well to show some himself (Guardian)
 
‘Ten Reasons to Hate the Welfare Cash Card’ ~ A direct attack on equality, dignity and human freedom

DWP Doncaster Jobseekers ‘had not been using loo paper at all’ TWEETS Current A4e Director of Policy & Strategy, former Reality TV toff and Adviser to Cameron
 
Eek! Referred to A4E for Work Programme - now what!

a4e job search session
 
MPs hear evidence of Work Programme failures from charities

Karl investigates help available to Lincoln Job-Seekers on the Work Programme
 
Bedroom tax activists stage protest at LMH offices

Bedroom tax: The heart-wrenching letter from a widow that shames David Cameron

Owen Jones: The bedroom tax is just the latest assault on our poorest citizens
 
‘Bedroom Tax’: “Dumbfounded by the brutality of the Bill” and Tenants Set to Suffer say Scottish Federation of Housing Associations

Public Accounts Committee Report on the DWP AtoS Contract management of medical services
 
Fitness for work testing deemed a failure as four out of 10 claimants are wrongly ruled fit to work

DWP to blame for fitness-to-work tests fiasco Commons Public Accounts Committee MPs say
FORMER soldiers will be made homeless and some could die because of the Con-Dem Government’s brutal benefit cuts, shocked MSPs have been told
 
Judge rules against Council Tax Challenge by Single Mum plunged into abject poverty in Haringey
 
WRA S.102 Sched.11 ‘Clause 99′ has been introduced from April to ensure wrongful ‘fit-for-work’ decisions are practically impossible to challenge
 
Public sector ‘steps’ up to provide work placements (LS)

Work Programme Employment Advisor 
 
Benefits changes spark cuts at Castle & Minster Credit Union

This obsession with outsourcing public services has created a shadow state (Guardian)

DWP insists universal credit plans are 'on track' 
 
Draft Universal Credit Regulations 2013 - Commons Library Standard Note
 
Delegated Legislation Committee - Draft Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2013
 
Welfare reform maze leaving claimants ‘in limbo’ (Scotsman)
 
Mystory

Welfare Reform Creates ‘Very Sick System’ – BBC Democracy Live (BBC)

Britain’s young strivers have no hope for the future

UK youth face bleak job prospects in 2013
 
DWP Launches Scheme In Bid To Aid Budding Disabled Entrepreneurs
 
This Is What Efficiency Savings Look Like: Elderly Woman Dies After Being Left Without Food, Medication, Water or Care
 
Bedroom Tax – Cameron and toy boys at PMQs
 
Bedroom Tax – The disabled myth is counterproductive
 
Freedom lives on! Early February round-up
 
IMPORTANT! An URGENT Call for YOUR Evidence for Legal Action to Challenge DLA-to-PIP regulations ~ Jane Young wants to hear from YOU

FOLLOW-UP BRIEFING BY MO STEWART: HOUSE OF COMMONS BACKBENCH BUSINESS DEBATE ‘ATOS HEALTHCARE & THE WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT’
 
Watch: UK welfare reforms “completely heartless” witnesses today told the Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee today
 
Work and Pensions Committee announces forthcoming evidence session on the Work Programme: experience of different user groups

More claims that the work programme is failing disabled people (BBC)

Boom in over-50s opting to be their own boss (Telegraph)

Self-employment accounts for 'growth' in jobs

The Government's Work Programme Needs Some Work (HP)

With Friends Like The Guardian Benefit Claimants Don’t Need Enemies
 
Skivers v strivers: the benefits debate explained | Animation (Guardian)

The Benefits Debate Explained. Is It Really Skivers v Strivers?

Strivers v skivers: the benefits debate in numbers
 
A4e audit (FOIR)

Let's have a proper debate

Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Kids Company (DWP)
 
Charities delivering services for the Work Programme are 'poorly supported'
 
Local government’s hidden talents

Interview questions: are you over-qualified for this job?

Are you overqualified for this job?

Census Report Reveals Bad Health Hotspots In Poorer Areas

Benefit Claimant Targeted By PayDay Loan Scam

Rip-Off Agents ‘Fuel Housing Crisis’

Rip-off agents 'fuel housing crisis'
 
The Work Programme
 
Town Hall protest over council’s £10m cuts to adult social care
 
Government's welfare reforms are all an act
 
NCVO collaborates with Serco

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Universal Credit

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Universal Credit pilot study
 
Families offered help to budget for universal credit
 
Universal Credit

Universal Credit
 
Landlord calls for more advice on universal credit
 
Universal Credit (Wales)
 
Universal Credit and support to vulnerable claimants
 
5 February 2013 – Vulnerable claimants will get support they need under Universal Credit, Ministers tell select committee

Universal Credit: Government not seeking to define 'vulnerability'
 
Universal Credit implementation: meeting the needs of vulnerable claimants
 
Views sought on impact of Universal Credit

Universal Credit: 'Carefully selected' tenants struggling to cope with direct payments
 
Universal Credit implementation: Government response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee (DWP)

Universal Credit implementation: meeting the needs of vulnerable claimants — Government response to the Committee’s Report 

Government attacked over continued failure to define 'vulnerable' in Universal Credit plans

Vulnerable claimants to get Universal Credit help - minister

What is universal credit?
 
Universal Credit information event

Universal credit will “seriously backfire” in Wales – Welsh MP

MPs debate Universal Credit (Wales)
 
Universal Credit Changes
 
Wise up: to Universal Credit
 
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM TO THE UNIVERSAL CREDIT REGULATIONS 2013

Why transitional protection offers far from Universal assurance for Universal Credit claimants

Vulnerable claimants to get Universal Credit help - minister
 
Universal Credit - frequently asked questions
 
Universal credit FAQs
 
Universal Credit, China's moon ambitions and in-car internet speeds
 
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Universal Jobmatch

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Funeployment 7 - Universal Job Match 
 
Universal Jobmatch Key Facts for Benefit Claimant

Nigel

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