campaign against welfare cuts and poverty

[treelover]

Britain’s ‘generation rent’ breaks its silence
http://newint.org/blog/2013/04/24/letting-agents-protests/

any reports...

 

[stuff_it]

Disabled should work for less than Min wage apparently...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...-less-than-minimum-wage-Tory-MP-suggests.html

 

[UhOhSeven]

Jesus H Christ in a chicken basket.

Not even the Daily Bellylaugh seems willing to take him seriously, so we have at least a modicum of hope.

 

[treelover]

Disabled should work for less than Min wage apparently...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...-less-than-minimum-wage-Tory-MP-suggests.html

I was going to post that, its doing the rounds, then I saw the date

still very very relevant...

 

[stuff_it]

I was going to post that, its doing the rounds, then I saw the date

still very very relevant...

I don't for one second think they could get away with it in the near future but it's a good guide to their sort of attitudes.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Lord Freud basically admits that the whole thing is badly thought out, incomplete, and a horlicks. In this letter distributed to Supported Housing providers this morning.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Is Lord Freud any relation?

 

[Idris2002]

Is Lord Freud any relation?

I believe he is, yes.

Unconsciously, anyway.

 

[treelover]

Lord Freud basically admits that the whole thing is badly thought out, incomplete, and a horlicks. In this letter distributed to Supported Housing providers this morning.

haven't read the PDF, what is 'badly thought out'?

 

[stuff_it]

Jobseekers forced to take bogus psychometric tests.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/30/jobseekers-bogus-psychometric-tests-unemployed

 

[Frances Lengel]

Jobseekers forced to take bogus psychometric tests.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/30/jobseekers-bogus-psychometric-tests-unemployed

Jesus. I created a thing of beauty when I went for a shit earlier on - I made a figurine of Mrs Thatcher out of the main turd.

 

[existentialist]

Jobseekers forced to take bogus psychometric tests.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/30/jobseekers-bogus-psychometric-tests-unemployed

I don't doubt the truth of this, but if the DWP really are administering bogus, unvalidated tests like this, regardless of compulsion, it's an outrage. I can't put my finger on it, but two words - deceptive and abusive - spring to mind, neither of which should ever be part of government policy.

 

[el-ahrairah]

haven't read the PDF, what is 'badly thought out'?

read the pdf, it's really short. it was a letter received by a number of landlords today.

 

[treelover]

I don't doubt the truth of this, but if the DWP really are administering bogus, unvalidated tests like this, regardless of compulsion, it's an outrage. I can't put my finger on it, but two words - deceptive and abusive - spring to mind, neither of which should ever be part of government policy.

wasn't it an urban poster who discovered this originally, on the Void blog?

 

[ViolentPanda]

I don't doubt the truth of this, but if the DWP really are administering bogus,unvalidated tests like this, regardless of compulsion, it's an outrage. I can't put my finger on it, but two words - deceptive and abusive - spring to mind, neither of which should ever be part of government policy.

It's certainly unethical, and a perversion of behavioural economics as I understand it (i.e. as a mode of deriving insight into economic behaviour with regard to consumption choices.
Not that I'm surprised by a government unit nigh-on-inventing a scientific basis for exercising their ideological beliefs by refering back to their understanding or interpretation of (in this case) a sub-discipline of the psychology of economics, far from it.

 

[treelover]

In a surprise move, shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne indicated his party now backed the introduction of the new universal credit system, designed to ensure it always pays for people on benefits to go back to work or accept extra hours.
Labour voted against the scheme when it was debated by Parliament last year. But yesterday Mr Byrne said the universal credit system was a ‘fine idea’, albeit one with some details still to be ironed out.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316612/Universal-Credit-shake-make-sure-work-pays-gets-underway-Labour-finally-admits-sensible-idea.html#ixzz2S2gaOdOj

Labour now back Universal Credit...

 

[stuff_it]

Labour now back Universal Credit...

On the other hand look what the Torons sneaked through on a busy news week:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/c...s/parliament-2010/the-role-of-jobcentre-plus/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-22220882

 

[ViolentPanda]

Labour now back Universal Credit...

Hardly surprising, is it? We all knew Byrne was cast from the same mold as Purnell, so he probably shot his load in his Calvins when Balls and Miliband gave him the nod on this. Neoliberal fuckwads.

 

[treelover]

http://atosvictimsgroup.co.uk/2013/...d-money-from-atos-to-sponsor-awards-ceremony/

https://www.facebook.com/EMAP.NT

Couldn't make it up, ATOS are sponsoring The Nursing Times Awards Ceremony.

 

[treelover]

Nursing Times would like to officially confirm that ATOS is not a sponsor for this year’s Nursing Times Awards 2013.

Weird, ATOS claim they are sponsoring NT's Awards, NT's says it isn't

what is does show is the power of social media to challenge the corporates when they do wrong, and its is largely inclusive.

 

[treelover]

http://wearespartacus.org.uk/bedroom-tax/bedroom-tax-call-for-evidence/


Spartacus, the disability benefits action research group which did the brilliant report on the last brutal Welfare Bill, is calling for evidence on the Bedroom tax and its affects on disabled and sick claimants..

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[Treacle Toes]

Workshy map of Britain revealed: Thousands of incapacity benefit claimants found to be capable of working

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319355/Workshy-map-Britain-revealed-Thousands-incapacity-benefit-claimants-capable-working.html#ixzz2SN1aKMxY​

No palm large enough to facepalm in the way I would like ​

 

[UhOhSeven]

I see from that map that Birmingham has sold up and moved to Buckinghamshire.

Also: No London?

 

[BigTom]

I see from that map that Birmingham has sold up and moved to Buckinghamshire.

Also: No London?

I think it's done by council area, if so that alone explains why Birmingham is highest and none of the London councils are there.
Worth also noting that these figures are before appeal so you can knock 20% of them for starters

 

[audiotech]

 

[Libertad]

 

[treelover]

New 2012/13 DWP official figures for fraud estimates.

Preliminary estimates of Fraud and Error by type of error in 2012/13
0.7%, or £1.2bn, of total benefit expenditure is overpaid due to fraud;
0.9%, or £1.6bn, of total benefit expenditure is overpaid due to claimant error;
... ...
See more
http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd2/fem/nsfr-final-090513.pdf
statistics.dwp.gov.uk

With all the intense scrutiny and resources they are pouring in, fraud is still very low.

 

[stuff_it]

Good article about Tory run privatised food banks.

http://www.cantpaywontpay.org/publish/?p=2311

 

[treelover]

Some fantastic stuff on the net now, information is power...