campaign against welfare cuts and poverty

[Frankie Jack]

Edited..

Firstly I want to join in squealing with glee with private sector landlords for the important role they have played in the economy as a whole.

You have been of huge value during these recent turbulent times. Taking over 590,000 extra tenants on Housing Benefit, an increase of over 50% – which we are helping you trouser wads and wads of lovely wonga.

 

[8115]

I love the way he mentions a housinng benefit cap of £400/ week when in reality for the vast number of people it's a lot lower than that.

 

[BigTom]

Edited..

Exactly what I was thinking .. oh private landlords, thank you so much for taking loads of our money, a totally secure source on income in these troubled times.
what a cock.

 

[BigTom]

I love the way he mentions a housinng benefit cap of £400/ week when in reality for the vast number of people it's a lot lower than that.

For single people, once UC comes in, the total benefit cap will be £350/wk, the single room rate round here is something like £55/wk maximum for anyone under 35 iirc.. has he just selected the highest possible cap or something? the 4+ bedroom rate in London?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

For single people, once UC comes in, the total benefit cap will be £350/wk, the single room rate round here is something like £55/wk maximum for anyone under 35 iirc.. has he just selected the highest possible cap or something? the 4+ bedroom rate in London?

Dunno, probably the rate that will most appeal to Daily Mail readers

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Just got Benefits and Work email

Has this been posted yet?

WORK PROGRAMME RIP-OFF
Approximately 30,000 employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants in the work-related activity group are being referred to the work programme for ‘personalised and intensive support’ in relation to returning to work

ESA claimants with a three or six month work capability assessment (WCA) prognosis and who have previously received support from the Pathways to Work scheme are to be forced onto the work programme ‘if it is appropriate to do so’.

The decision to make additional referrals has been taken because of lower than expected numbers of ESA claimants being referred to the scheme. Work programme providers make much greater profits from getting sick and disabled claimants back into work than they do from JSA claimants.

However, Channel 4 News claim to have obtained figures that show that Work Programme providers A4E have got only 4% of claimants referred to them into work. This is fewer than would be expected to have found work without any help at all. In spite of this, A4E are alleged to have received £46 million in taxpayers cash for their efforts.

 

[Greebo]

Just got Benefits and Work email

Has this been posted yet?

WTF?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Which reminds me, my subscription runs out on Friday. Renewal only £9.45

 

[Frankie Jack]

I've gone through all the DWP payments to A4e since April 2010. The total is £259,445,333.09. This includes the measly £46m since the Work Program started
Anyone with some time to spend and as tediously bored as I get can check them out and add them up HERE.

 

[weepiper]

The cynical among us might think that if they weren't paying all that money to A4E they could afford to keep paying people their ESA instead.

 

[Frankie Jack]

Quick .xls grab

DWP payments to A4E

Apr-10 11,901,295.25
May-10 16,089,254.23
Jun-10 15,803,223.30
Jul-10 2,832,202.48
Aug-10 16,941,996.96
Sep-10 13,690,811.16
Oct-10 10,512,970.65
Nov-10 8,041,447.29
Dec-10 12,701,312.96
Jan-11 12,334,252.95
Feb-11 11,321,953.46
Mar-11 13,738,727.32
145,909,448.01

Apr-11 8,012,349.38
May-11 11,220,511.00
Jun-11 12,006,211.00
Jul-11 11,073,100.73
Aug-11 8,487,248.00
Sep-11 6,011,692.00
Oct-11 6,612,388.16
Nov-11 4,695,334.00
Dec-11 3,785,070.00
Jan-12 8,515,330.37
Feb-12 5,550,404.00
85,969,638.64

Mar-12 5,528,598.00
Apr-12 3,655,017.00
May-12 4,752,385.44
Jun-12 4,785,243.00
Jul-12 4,414,395.00
Aug-12 4,430,608.00

27,566,246.44

All Totals 259,445,333.09

All the other WPs are creaming off just as much.

 

[Frankie Jack]

The cynical among us might think that if they weren't paying all that money to A4E they could afford to keep paying people their ESA instead.

This Workfare scam is costing £5bn weeps.. 1/4 of the cuts so far and 1/2 of the next round.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Disgusting

 

[BigTom]

This Workfare scam is costing £5bn weeps.. 1/4 of the cuts so far and 1/2 of the next round.

That's just the work programme, £1bn/year although I think that's going to increase as they are referring more people. It's by far the largest scheme but the others also cost money.. the youth contract is quite a bit of money iirc but I can't be arsed to look it up.

 

[Frankie Jack]

Just wait till April when many of the Tory brutalities are gonna come into force....

Oh and know that feeling Tom. I start out finding info with great intentions and usually end up under a duvet watching a cartoon to take my mind off the shit I find.

 

[BigTom]

Firstly I want to congratulate private sector landlords for the important role they have played in the economy as a whole.

You have been of huge value during these recent turbulent times. Taking over 590,000 extra tenants on Housing Benefit, an increase of over 50% – for which we are extremely grateful.

sorry this has been brewing in my head overnight and I need to rant and get it out..

what the fuck is this, that we are grateful to private landlords for taking on HB claimants, like this is some sort of charitable endeavour from the landlords, that they are worse off.. they are in it for the money and are getting as much from HB claimants as they would for a non-claimant only it's totally secure. The only way that this makes sense is if you think claimants are scum, they will be far worse tenants in some way than non-claimants. We all know freud is a total fucking dick already but I guess I've never actually listened/read anything much he's said. this sentence makes me want to cause him physical pain. fuck the private landlords ripping us off with sky high rents, I'm not grateful to those motherfuckers, without them the HB bill would be something like 1/3rd lower (based on lower social housing rents), though they'd still be cutting it even so. but can't they see what their policies have done? sold off the social housing now the increased welfare bill is used as a reason to get rid of HB, not to build more social housing. fuckers.
I thought that was going to be more sweary. so I'll just add fuck the cunting dickface Freud.

 

[weepiper]

See what I mean? Raging. Bunch of cunts.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Lord it up Fraud

Give it time cunt..!!

At a national level, what he says is reasonably accurate. Only nationally, though. Regionally, the south-east and south-west have seen an acceleration in private renters "changing down" that seems to already be hitting the buffers of available cheaper housing stock and having the effect of "pricing out" private renters on HB.
As you say, give it time and the figures will show that Freud has talked shite, but by then he won't give a fuck, and the homeless and poorly housed will aready have been shat on.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Investigate 'misleading' Atos bid for disability tests contract, urges Labour

Four organisations named in tendering document say they object to suggestion they planned to co-operate with firm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/nov/01/atos-disability-tests-contract-labour

 

[Frankie Jack]

Income management for the poor

No doubt this will be rolled out nationwide before long.

From April 1st 2013 Liverpool City Council will replace the crisis loans and community care grants with the Citizen Support Scheme (CSS). It is not just a meaningless re-branding exercise; it has serious ramifications for people all over the country.
The scheme’s key differences to those of the existing arrangements are the abolishment of cash payments. The will be replaced with ‘food vouchers’ and utility ‘pre-pay cards’. The council laughingly describe this as a switch to, ‘holistic care’.
Currently people in receipt of crisis loans and community care grants are free to spend their money as they see fit. The new (CSS) will replace claimant autonomy with restrictive, and possibly, methods of payment that the state can monitor, how, where, and when it is used.

 

[weepiper]

Seriously I think my head is going to pop.

 

[Frankie Jack]

Seriously I think my head is going to pop.

It's only my constant facepalms that are holding my head together.. I'm shit scared to headdesk incase it goes off big time.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Explanatory Memorandum for the Social Security Advisory Committee
Universal Credit Regulations 2012
For the meeting of the Social Security Advisory Committee on Wednesday 13 June 2012

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/uc-draft-regs-2012-memorandum.pdf

 

[Treacle Toes]

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ESA50 with descriptors
Price per Unit (piece): £2.49
Ask a question about this product
This form not only shows the descriptors and points for each descriptor but an explanation of how to explain how your problems meet each descriptor.

Read more at http://www.benefitanswers.co.uk/Non-Means-Tested-Benefit-Fact-Sheets/ESA50-with-descriptors/flypage.tpl.html?pop=0#Q9tzAaztGDJCrkQW.99​

http://www.benefitanswers.co.uk/Non...ESA50-with-descriptors/flypage.tpl.html?pop=0

I have a copy of this if anyone needs it and doesn't wants to pay. PM me your email address and I will
send it.

 

[Cupid Stunt]

BBC News reporting that the Foodbank, The Tressell Trust has seen demand for its food parcels(three days supply only) double in the last year. Its known that the DWP is now sending people they refuse for a crisis loan to thém and that Smith specifically released funds from the DWP to aid the charity, surprise...

Link below to Docu on that foodbank, the reporter gets scammed by a scumbag taking food from the mouths of the genuine needy, he gets revealed, see him squirm the little shit, though to be fair he obviously has problems but he claimed £500 worth of food and later the bank were turning people away because they had run dry.
A scary look at the very near future for the underclasses in this (soon to be third world) country.

I have a 20yo son and my heart bleeds for his future, he is already building a bitter hatred for the government (without my help) by the way he is treated by the system already.
Glad i'll be dead soon (heart problems) and won't have to see the shit he will have to go
through, fuck 'em all, cunts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nqcbm/Britains_Hidden_Hungry/

 

[Frankie Jack]

Atos doctors and nurses raise concerns over signing of Official Secrets Act

One doctor, who joined the firm last summer, said: “I could not have been more surprised when I was told that everybody had to sign the Official Secrets Act.
“There’s something very sinister, cloak and dagger, about it.”
The doctor added that there were already strict rules about disclosure of patient details, saying: “You would have thought we would be covered by our professional codes of conduct.”
A second doctor said: “There’s no justification for a healthcare practitioner assessing a person suffering from back pain or depression to sign this kind of document.”
Atos said they have contracts with other public bodies, including the MoD, which require their employees working with those organisations to sign the Official Secrets Act.
They have one security policy across the company and this was why doctors working with the Department for Work and Pensions are also included.
The DWP said they weren’t aware that Atos employees were being made to sign the Act.
Labour MP Tom Greatrex said: “This is an extraordinary development.
“When Atos are in receipt of millions of taxpayers’ money, it is unacceptable for a culture of secrecy and cover-up to prevail.”

 

[Treacle Toes]

Does anyone want to join the Anti-Bedroom tax group on FB?

They have loads of useful info uploaded as files in this group and seem like a helpful group of people.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/antibedroomtax/

 

[Treacle Toes]

Bedroom tax will put people on streets while homes go empty


http://mikesivier.wordpress.com/201...l-put-people-on-streets-while-homes-go-empty/

 

[Treacle Toes]

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[Greebo]

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