UK Jobcentres 'Tricking' People Out Of Benefits To Cut Costs, Spending £3 Million A Day On Libya

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3rd April 2011

The Banks get bailed with trillions of tax payers money while giving themselves record bonuses, and the UK spends over £3 million a day on invading Libya in the name of a "Humanitarian mission" while striping the Unemployed of there "human rights" at home in the UK. Hypocrisy to the fullest.. when will people so "No more, enough is enough"?

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Soaring number of sanctions against unemployed amid claims that DWP staff are being told to trip people up with paperwork

The Guardian has been told that unemployed people are being tricked into breaching the rules so that benefits can be held back Link to this video

Rising numbers of vulnerable jobseekers are being tricked into losing benefits amid growing pressure to meet welfare targets, a Jobcentre Plus adviser has told the Guardian.

A whistleblower said staff at his jobcentre were given targets of three people a week to refer for sanctions, where benefits are removed for up to six months. He said it was part of a "culture change" since last summer that had led to competition between advisers, teams and regional offices.

"Suddenly you're not helping somebody into sustainable employment, which is what you're employed to do," he said. "You're looking for ways to trick your customers into 'not looking for work'. You come up with many ways. I've seen dyslexic customers given written job searches, and when they don't produce them -- what a surprise -- they're sanctioned. The only target that anyone seems to care about is stopping people's money.

"'Saving the public purse' is the catchphrase that is used in our office ... It is drummed home all the time -- you're saving the public purse. Feel good about stopping someone's money, you've just saved your own pocket. Its a joke."

The claims came as the big businesses handed contracts to get the long term jobless into worktoday said the government should privatise jobcentres so that their firms could work with people who have been jobless for less than a year.

Statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show the total number of cases where people have lost their benefits has soared since the beginning of 2010 to 75,000 in October, the latest month available. The figures also reveal the number of claimants with registered disabilities being cut off has more than doubled to almost 20,000 over the same period.

This follows a change in the rules in April last year where sanctions were extended to claimants who were late for jobcentre interviews and other less serious offences.

When a claimant is sanctioned their jobseeker's allowance is stopped. They then have to apply for hardship payments, which are usually about half the allowance, or just over £30 a week. John, in Wigan, has been sanctioned for six months and says he has to rely on food parcels and must sleep on his friend's couch. "It's left me in a state of depression. I've lost weight, I'm tired ... I feel like I've been attacked for no reason."

The whistleblower blamed the targets. "We were told suddenly that [finding someone to sanction] once a week wasn't good enough, we were far behind other offices, and we went to a meeting where they compared us with other offices, and said we now have to do three a week to catch up. Most staff go into work and they're thinking about it from moment one -- who am I going to stop this week?"

The DWP denies there are specific targets, but the Guardian has seen email evidence of referral targets in one office, and the issue of targets has been raised by employees on online forums.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/apr/01/jobcentres-tricking-people-ben...

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[wakeup2nwo]

Please share this video with all your contacts! Thanks in advance :)

[wideafukinwake]

...and now they are going to make disabled people get re-assessed.. wtf.. your either disabled or not.. this is what happens when the law allows an un elected conservative government into power to make the poor pay and aflicted for a debt that firstly wasnt theirs and was caused by rich bankers!! and now we can magically afford to pay for another occupation of a foreign country. ffs target the rich not the poor and meek.. we as human beings are failing each other. its so very tragic!

[bamboo2u2]

£95 bn a year remains unpaid in corporate taxes by large UK businesses ... yet no attempts are made to recover this money ... Reason ... MP's are probably sitting on the boards of these companys ... Bankers hold 2 fingers up to the British public whilst paying themselves billions in bonuses ...

This country is run by corrupt people who only see the working man as a product ... They look to make a profit from us as they would any product they sell ... The time has come to take to the streets !

[iBeep2009]

just get workign tax credits instead fo jsa - register as a big issue seller....

[iBeep2009]

Go self employed as a big issue seller and claim £75 a week for standing on a pitch adn not selling anything - romanians do! They cant sanction you and youre 10 a week better off - all you have to do is sign on at the Big Issue office, book 16 hours on a pitch, then register as self employed for self assessed tax at hmrc online - no more signing on - dont even have to sell a single big issue either just do worklike activity for 16 hours a week.

[iBeep2009]

Anyone have a copy of 'Gravy Training' - bbc panorama 1994 - about the tories Training and Enterprise scheme, where employers got £50 a week for a trainee if there was a full time job at the end of it - then changed their minds, got a new trainee.

Its archived at the British Film Institute but cant find it on you tube or the BBc archive

[bizzledizzle2010]

@krobinsonization spot on m8, 

[star3t]

@Drumthunder99 I have a letter to get out of that work progamme and if they sanction your benefitt after you can Bill them.

[Drumthunder99]

@bamboo2u2 As per the invention of new deal a4e and now the lovely WORKPROGRAMME.

[krobinsonization]

I find it so hard to understand that the public havent woken up to these lying, thieving, lazy crooks in Westminster. Many should be in prison given the theft of expenses, others have blazenly lied to the public (vote on the EEC membership? not as long as they can get cushy jobs there). The UK should be heading to an Arab type uprising. Why isnt it? There is not a leader who can galvanize the public, or perhaps the population is so overwhelmed with welfare cases, they are afraid to protest.

[kopynd1]

25yrs self employed construction, finding work is so hard, I am no longer fit enough, I suggest bring down the retirement age to 60, give the younger generation a chance in life, after all not everyone lives long enough to claim there pension,

[bomberbruno1]

these b@stards sanctioned me this week.. worked all my life "builder" no work anywhere and these cunts do anything to stop your benifit.. modern day slavery is here!!!

[supplementcouponcode]

@supplementcouponcode

i meant so called "scroungers"