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One of the tweets asked how many children there were, but there wasn't a reply, so might be something to do with that? Are councils allowed to use hotels for emergency accommodation? It'd seem strange not to put people up in a travelodge type hotel which would be cheaper even if you are needing 3 or 4 rooms.. or perhaps there are no hotels within the area that the council are required to house them?

I agree it's mad amounts of money that I can't really comprehend how it's got that high, I bet it's logical once you see the detail, not something I know anything about though..
I bet it's a story that's being repeated - housing benefit cuts -> eviction -> expensive rehousing -> rise in cost for taxpayer ... but because the higher cost comes out of the council budget, IDS doesn't care because he's still cutting his budget at DWP.
 
Demos: welfare reform has cost disabled people and their carers £500 million so far
Demos has found that since its inception 14 months ago welfare reform has cost disabled people and their carers £500 million. These findings are part of the 'Disability in Austerity' project Demos has undertaken with support from Scope.
Read more here.


For info, I get a wretched weekly update from the Welfare to Work gangsters. It depresses me, but I managed to screw up the courage to open it today, and saw the above.
 
UrbaneFox said:
<snip>For info, I get a wretched weekly update from the Welfare to Work gangsters. It depresses me, but I managed to screw up the courage to open it today, and saw the above.
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Thanks for that, I'll check it after I've grabbed a drink.
 
Yet again the Tories fire in like fuckwits destabalising EVERY fucking thing.. and no mater how many of us say noooooo.. the cunts do anyway.. A lot of us were o fucked off when the condems took power.. it's seriously worse than we imagined... :confused:
 
CPI too generous to those on benefits - according to Cameron:

This year we increased benefits by 5.2 per cent.
That was in line with the inflation rate last September.
But it was almost twice as much as the average wage increase.
Given that so many working people are struggling to make ends meet…
…we have to ask whether this is the right approach.
It might be better to link benefits to prices unless wages have slowed – in which case they could be linked to wages.
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Workfare is in court tomorrow and wednesday, judicial reviews for Sector Based Work Academies and Community Action Programme.

9:30am at the Royal Courts, WC2A 2LL if anyone can make it for a demo & to show support for the two plaintiffs.. http://www.facebook.com/events/489041871122439/

I think this is just a case of putting forward skeleton arguments and the judge deciding it should go on for a full hearing, but I'm not sure.
 
A4e managed to get 3.5% of people into work in the first 10 months of the workprogramme...

http://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-a4e-finds-jobs-for-3-5-per-cent-of-job-seekers

Data obtained exclusively by Channel 4 News shows that the welfare to work company A4e secured sustainable jobs for just 3.5 per cent of its job-seekers under the government's flagship Work Programme.


The data, which both the company and the government have refused to release, reveals a company failing to meet the minimum targets set for it by the government in the first year of the Work Programme.
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Surely the end must be nigh for A4e.. I wonder how other providers are doing in comparison?
 
Also, we're doing a one-day conference in Birmingham on Tues 10th July

http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?p=1192

Not just workfare, there's a session on universal credit and a more general claimants rights session. The one being run by consent.me.uk should be really good for claimants, a practical workshop on your rights.
 
Are nine out of ten spending cuts still to come?


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http://fullfact.org/factchecks/nine_out_of_ten_88_94_spending_cuts_still_to_come-27489
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/30/david-cameron-work-firms-benefits

Richard Whittell from Corporate Watch said the Work Programme appeared to be focused on slashing benefit rather than putting people into work. "These figures give the lie to the government's claims its welfare reforms are about helping people into work," he said.

"By the time it's finished, more people will have been sanctioned by the Work Programme than properly employed through it. Every month thousands of people are having their only source of income stopped and being pushed into hardship. Companies like Serco, Working Links and G4S may not be very good at finding people suitable work, but they're dab hands at punishing them." The private firms say they make their referrals to job centres in line with government guidelines.
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More benefit sanctions! That's what's needed :facepalm:

here's the corporate watch article: http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=4371

500,000 sanctions placed in 2011, half a million people going without money for food for at least 2 weeks.
 
'The number of cases has risen from 139,000 benefit cuts under Labour in 2009 to more than 500,000 in 2011.'


Thats a massive amount, corporate power really is dominant when it comes to those who have none.Lets be clear, the power of a private company or an individual to effectively take away that a persons livelihood is akin to the casual labour of the 30's or even the Beadle in the workhouse, Dickens would certainly recognise these circumstances

There has been an effective state campaign to demonise and undermine some of the most vulnerable people in the Uk as well as people recently made redundant, ir is redolent of the anti-shirker campaigns of the old Eastern Bloc regimes..

There really should be more opposition to this from the labour movement, etc such as it is...
 
Lazy jobseekers to lose benefits for up to three years

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...-cash-to-pay-for-roads-fail-to-get-going.html

One of the comments was interesting though:


LAZY JOBSEEKERS.this is pure propaganda.we dont say ALL MPs are cheating on expenses,therefore it is fair to assume that,NOT ALL jobseekers are lazy.last wednesday i was invited to give my opinion,concerning benefit reforms,to the GLOUCESTER CITIZEN.i quoted facts and figures,broadcast on BBC R4 YOU AND YOURS,which pointed out that one of the companies ,employed by the government to remove benefits from the likes of the disabled,was itself under investigation and was set to gain £13`500 per victim removed off benefits.the CITIZEN removed my comments and told me i had broken the rules and suspended me from the sight,instructing me not to discuss this with anyone.some hope.if you read the comments in the CITIZEN ,you will see that pro government posts are allowed to remain,FREE PRESS,only if you agree to put their view it would seem.by the way the CITIZEN ,has just been voted best western newspaper,i wonder why.all jobseekers are not lazy,many have lost their jobs because of government/bankers policies and the government are making the likes of the disabled,scapegoats. money was soon found for a phoney royal celebration,which lasted a few days,but our loss of services libraries,elderly care,youthclubs etc,will last forever.we are all being manipulated ,as my point concerning the CITIZEN proves,but i wont be censored,i have the right to speak under MAGNA CARTA SECTION 61 ,which states that everyone has the right to speak and lawfully protest.not in gloucester it seems.
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I can't remember if there's an ATOS Kills thread somewhere for me to bump with this, so I'll put it here:

Birmingham dad with heart condition found fit for work by ATOS, dies from heart attack soon after.

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/...fter-being-ruled-fit-for-work-97319-31317519/

A BIRMINGHAM dad died from a serious heart condition – weeks after Government assessors stopped his benefits and ruled he was fit for work.

Paul Turner, 52, from Erdington, was ordered to find a job in February following a medical review with doctors.

But he died on April 2 from ischaemic heart disease – caused, his family claim, by the stress of losing his benefits.
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I've a bookmark full of links to those who have died during or after WCAs. I'll sort them all out today. Been avoiding doing it as it's just so painfully sad, depressing and rage inducing.
 
Frankie Jack said:
I've a bookmark full of links to those who have died during or after WCAs. I'll sort them all out today. Been avoiding doing it as it's just so painfully sad, depressing and rage inducing.
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I think a new thread should be started for it as all these stories get buried under all the crap in here. I think you should also have stories of people who have been found fit to work.

A lot of people aren't seeing stories like the Mickleburgh one (who's still alive) and Karen Sherlock who died.
 
I agree minnie. Just working through the links I have. Putting them onto a wordpress page so I can get them in some semblance of order.
 
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