campaign against welfare cuts and poverty

[Toast Rider]

I once had it from the horses mouth when they `cut me off`(no housing benefit or JSA) for being naughty.

She was the manager of Llandrindod Wells Job Centre in mid Wales. She was flabbergasted that I was being persecuted in this way(unheard of at the time ... about 2004) for educating the unemployed about A4E and there connections with the ongoing Palestinian genocide as well as pointing out the obvious slavery elements of work for your welfare.

When I asked her about the Job Centre staff and what is it exactly that they are employed to do, whilst pointing out that I had seen many people desperate for help given disinformation by staff, she said

"They are employed to prevent people getting benefits they are entitled to"

I got threatened with sanctions on the Work Programme years back. Wouldn't give them a copy of my CV (offered to show it to them). Was told they had to have it to ring employers and aply for jobs on my behalf. Their head office later told me that's not their policy. Just bullshit all round; they wanted it to score some hits and have the adviser make a name for himself, the cunt.

 

[treelover]

Probably the most significant meeting on disability and benefits in many many years, initiated by John MCardle Black Triangle Campaign , coordinated by John McDonell, five shadow ministers in attendance, and most of the long term anti-welfare reform campaigners/activists(those who could get there) They are meeting again in five weeks.

Hope for major social security ‘brutality’ campaign after ‘breakthrough’ Labour meeting

 

[treelover]

Another theme was the need to hold Conservative politicians such as Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling to account for the decisions they made within DWP in 2010 that many believe led to the deaths of claimants of out-of-work disability benefits.

Some of the issues are going to be quite radical if confronted.

 

[chainsawjob]

FOI request from disability campaigner forces DWP to give statistics for deaths of ESA claimants:

DWP forced to admit more than 111,000 benefit deaths

 

[chainsawjob]

DWP has 80% target (KPI) for upholding the original decision at Mandatory Reconsideration stage (unsurprisingly).

DWP 'has secret target to reject 80 per cent of benefit appeals'

 

[crossthebreeze]

Liked for the efforts of campaigners and journalists to obtain the information - not the actual statistics which are horrendous.

 

[treelover]

Welfare spending for UK's poorest shrinks by £37bn
Figures compiled after decade of austerity and obtained by Frank Field show most striking cuts are in disability benefits

Patrick Butler Social policy editor


Field said the cuts were behind increases in food bank use and destitution. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Spending on welfare benefits for the UK’s poorest families will have shrunk by nearly a quarter after a decade of austerity, according to new figures highlighting the plunge in living standards experienced by the worst-off.

By 2021, £37bn less will be spent on working-age social security compared with 2010, despite rising prices and living costs, according to estimates produced by the House of Commons library.

Welfare spending for UK's poorest shrinks by £37bn

 

[existentialist]

Welfare spending for UK's poorest shrinks by £37bn
Figures compiled after decade of austerity and obtained by Frank Field show most striking cuts are in disability benefits

Patrick Butler Social policy editor


Field said the cuts were behind increases in food bank use and destitution. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Spending on welfare benefits for the UK’s poorest families will have shrunk by nearly a quarter after a decade of austerity, according to new figures highlighting the plunge in living standards experienced by the worst-off.

By 2021, £37bn less will be spent on working-age social security compared with 2010, despite rising prices and living costs, according to estimates produced by the House of Commons library.

Welfare spending for UK's poorest shrinks by £37bn

Scumbags. Because they pretend that nothing has changed.

 

[treelover]

Greenwood says Labour would scrap Tories' benefits sanctions regime
Margaret Greenwood, the shadow work and pensions secretary, told the Labour conference in her speech this afternoon that Labour would scrap the Tories’s benefits sanctions regime (the set of rules that lead to claimants losing benefits if they fail to comply with conditions, such as attending interviews or looking for work). She told delegates:

We know that the majority of people want to work. But we know too that the sanctions regime is failing.

That is why the next Labour government will scrap the Tories’ punitive sanctions regime in its entirety.

We will rebuild our social security system from the principles on which it was founded. Supporting people rather than policing them and alleviating poverty rather than exacerbating it.

She also said Labour would halt the roll out of universal credit to allow its “many flaws” be fixed.

Guardian Politics lIve

 

[Pickman's model]

Guardian Politics lIve

but what do you think?

 

[treelover]

 

[teqniq]

What the actual fuck?

Tory conference: Charity’s silence on universal credit deaths, hours after minister announces £51m funding

...A DWP spokeswoman confirmed today (Thursday) that the funding of £39 million was for just one year, “with a review at the end”.

But she also appeared to confirm that the contracts signed by the charities includes a clause preventing them from attracting “adverse publicity” to the department or to McVey herself, as in contracts signed by some of the disability charities who have signed up to deliver services as part of DWP’s new Work and Health Programme.

Such a clause is likely to say that Citizens Advice must “pay the utmost regard to the standing and reputation” of McVey and must promise not to do anything that harms the public’s confidence in her or DWP.

Asked whether the contracts do include such a clause, a DWP spokeswoman said this afternoon: “Such paragraphs are typical in DWP grants....

 

[existentialist]

What the actual fuck?

Tory conference: Charity’s silence on universal credit deaths, hours after minister announces £51m funding

And, just to be perfectly clear about it, the charity is "Citizens Advice".

I would have hoped they'd have had more of a sense of moral purpose. I'm going to feel a lot less comfortable about advising clients to get advice from them about their dealings with DWP now - and can't help thinking that £51m was a pretty cheap price to pull the teeth of an organisation better placed than most to rip DWP a new one.

 

[treelover]

What the actual fuck?

Tory conference: Charity’s silence on universal credit deaths, hours after minister announces £51m funding

I was suspecting this, many charities are already co-opted by running services, etc, i think CA has been gagged before.,

John McDonnell says universal credit needs to be scrapped

Good news, though, John Mc comes out robustly against Universal credit, wish Corbyn would be as vocal about it.

 

[Pickman's model]

I was suspecting this, many charities are already co-opted by running services, etc, i think CA has been gagged before.,

John McDonnell says universal credit needs to be scrapped

Good news, though, John Mc comes out robustly against Universal credit, wish Corbyn would be as vocal about it.

Yeh always knocking Corbyn, nó matter what he says



Vocal enough for you?

 

[existentialist]

Yeh always knocking Corbyn, nó matter what he says



Vocal enough for you?

He can't hear it over the sound of wringing hands.

 

[treelover]

Anyway, good strategic move, Labour can say how is austerity ending when people are losing so much on U/C?, Labour can and will end austerity, he can say.

 

[Pickman's model]

Anyway, good strategic move, Labour can say how is austerity ending when people are losing so much on U/C?, Labour can and will end austerity, he can say.

Catch yourself on

 

[existentialist]

Catch yourself on

I think the Labour Party is most fortunate to have such a skilled and able adviser in the shape of our very own treelover. One almost wonders how, with such adept assistance, they have struggled in the polls for so long.

 

[treelover]

what on earth is wrong with that, grow up, plenty of posters postulate political strategy on this site, some more than others, i stick to what i know about.

 

[existentialist]

what on earth is wrong with that, grow up, plenty of posters postulate political strategy on this site, some more than others, i stick to what i know about.

Did I say that there was anything wrong with it? That wasn't the point I was making at all.

 

[Pickman's model]

what on earth is wrong with that, grow up, plenty of posters postulate political strategy on this site, some more than others, i stick to what i know about.

((((treelover)))) that's the saddest thing I've read in a long long time

existentialist

 

[RedStag]

the best idea would be to get rid of working tax credits - in this way the working poor will be independent and the State will be able to stop subsidising low paying employers

 

[Pickman's model]

the best idea would be to get rid of working tax credits - in this way the working poor will be independent and the State will be able to stop subsidising low paying employers

no, the best idea would be to end low pay

next

 

[RedStag]

ending low pay means creating unemployment, do you really want that?

 

[existentialist]

ending low pay means creating unemployment, do you really want that?

 

[NoXion]

ending low pay means creating unemployment

I don't believe that is the case.

 

[teqniq]

Charities working with universal credit claimants required to 'sign contracts to protect Esther McVey's reputation'

 

[RedStag]

Corbyn - he'll just let in millions more immigrants to lower wages and destroy any chance of people having somewhere to live - where's he going to house all these folk or pay for it?

 

[Libertad]

Corbyn - he'll just let in millions more immigrants to lower wages and destroy any chance of people having somewhere to live - where's he going to house all these folk or pay for it?

Your house.