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Wtf is that? How dues a 90 minute commute to giving sign on going to boost confidence? Breaking down barriers about commutes? Surely all anyone will learn is just how shit a long commute is.
Cost to be borne by jcps, great. It's already a nightmare to get your work programme/workfare/job interview travel costs reimbursed, plus if it did happen it would cost a bomb.
Probably make it back in sanctions for people whose train was delayed mind.
Fucking scum are policy exchange, their place on the wall has long been reserved.
 
Frankie Jack said:
What feckin next... The start of the closing down of local Jobcentres to make people traipse to the bigger towns/cities to sign on perhaps..? I despise these fucking think tanks..!!

Policy Exchange: Unemployed people should be made to commute for up to 90 minutes - just to sign on, according to David Cameron's favourite think tank.
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It's because they think that people's friends and family are a bad influence. Deliberately breaking up communities. You couldn't make it up.
 
The report is called "Cultures of Dependency: Fact, fiction, solutions" ffs.

Cultures of Dependency says that in the future employment support must better understand the pressures that families, social networks and communities put on unemployed people
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BigTom said:
Wtf is that? How dues a 90 minute commute to giving sign on going to boost confidence? Breaking down barriers about commutes? Surely all anyone will learn is just how shit a long commute is.
Cost to be borne by jcps, great. It's already a nightmare to get your work programme/workfare/job interview travel costs reimbursed, plus if it did happen it would cost a bomb.
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It was a nightmare 20 years ago, when the reimbursement system was much simpler. Nowadays, from what I'm told, there's so many extra little rules, plus the whim of the JCP staff, that only about 50% of claimants get their fares back.

Probably make it back in sanctions for people whose train was delayed mind.
Fucking scum are policy exchange, their place on the wall has long been reserved.
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Policy Exchange are the epitome of what "think tanks" have become - wholly-owned subsidiaries of corporate and political power. Instead of formulating policy on the basis of what is needed by the people, policy is nakedly formulated solely to suit the needs of power. :mad:
 
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No, it said in the I today that Policy Exchange said their friends and families are a negative influence, hence getting people to travel to a job centre.
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With regard to the people I know who are 25 miles or more from their nearest job centre, sometimes it's only through the intervention of their friends and families that they can get to the Job Centre to sign on, or get to interviews, given the scarcity of rural public transdport, and the prohibitive cost of private transport.
 
weepiper said:
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm feeling progressively more hand-spitty, black-flag-hoisty and throat-slitty by the day.
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The Jolly Roger is, of course, an acceptable substitute for a plain black flag (and would probably be a bit more "cred" with your kids :) ).
I wouldn't slit throats, though. I'd give the children of privilege a taste of their own medicine - two years on benefits, having to fulfill all those obligations they so happily pile on the likes of us.
We slit their throats only if they cheat. ;)
 
People Like Us
The shocking truth about 'Benefits Britain' is that people receiving benefits are just like us.
The real story behind the scaremongering is that many UK families rely on benefits and tax credits to top up low pay, to provide a lifeline during tough times or to manage unexpected life changes such as a disability or illness.
The current debate around social security is failing ordinary families. In our latest campaign we want to remind politicians that when they talk about benefit claimants we're talking about real people, real families and real children.
'People like us' will launch with a letter to party leaders, asking them to listen to the real life stories of Jack, Maureen and Paul, which provide a sharp contrast to the picture portrayed in the headlines.
It's time to drop the inaccurate and misleading stereotypes and begin a sensible debate that will lead to policies that promote jobs, tackle low pay, promote affordable housing and help people with the costs of raising children.



http://www.cpag.org.uk/people-like-us
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CPAG start a media/public campaign 'Peiople like us to challenge 'scrounger' myths, etc.

CPAG used to be total Blairites, etc but good for them on this

good to see the term 'welfare' being kicked into the long grass...
 
this is a email address of a UN official she wants to hear storys of how atos and dwp have effected disabled people, and she is doing an investigation into the breach of human rights by atos, please send her your storys of the awful experiances you have recieved via atos srhousing@ohchr.org
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posted on FB, not sure about provenance but there are others like it, she is hoping to expand her report now to other benefit issues.
 
couldn't say it a few years ago, but you really really are not the only one now:), I sense a growing anger at how the most vulnerable are being treated.
 
treelover said:
CPAG start a media/public campaign 'Peiople like us to challenge 'scrounger' myths, etc.

CPAG used to be total Blairites, etc but good for them on this

good to see the term 'welfare' being kicked into the long grass...
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Now if only they'd pay for a hit on their former Chairman, Frank "mad neo-Victorian cunt" Field.
 
Another ‘crackdown’ on benefit fraud, yet it accounts for just 0.7 per cent of welfare budget
By James Bloodworth | Published: September 16, 2013

http://www.leftfootforward.org/2013...unts-for-just-0-7-per-cent-of-welfare-budget/
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DPP: up to ten years for benefit fraud!

Keir Starmer(former leftist and Mclibel laywer) now Director of Public Prosecutions has said that 'benefit cheats' can expect up to ten years in prison, benefit fraud is now classed as 'fraud' and under Grayling, the DWP are no longer the prosecuting authority that has now been passed to the CPS who will demand 'robust' sentencing under guidance from Starmer. The media is reporting this as ten years for fradsters, yet one can surmise no one will get ten years, it is of course another turn of the screw to discipline the workforce and the move to demonise/criminalising claimants, shame on Starmer, Owen Jones speaks out on the BBC.
 
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The head of Citizens Advice warned prosecutors of not excessively punishing those who had made innocent mistakes or been caught unawares by ongoing and "fiendishly complicated" changes to the benefit system. Labour called for even stronger penalties.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/16/benefit-cheats-jail-terms
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Labour's shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, said the punishments for such fraud, including bank fraud, should be even higher.
"Beneath all the spin, this announcement is really an admission that to date, the authorities have not been using the most robust legislation out there to tackle fraud.
"That it has taken the government three years to address this is a sign of its complacency and incompetence. I am in favour of tougher sentences for all types of fraud, from benefit fraud to banking fraud, and would like to see the maximum penalty extended from 10 years to 14 years, bringing it in line with sentencing for other economic crimes such as money laundering. Today's announcement falls far short of that," she said.
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ffs....


btw, thread has had over 1000 new views in a couple of weeks, good news.
 
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Raquel Rolnik, special rapporteur for the UN has called for the UK government to scrap the Bedroom Tax. She will, it is widely reported, also call for them to scrap the Benefit Cap. They are unlawful under every global convention on human rights.

She is now asking for you all to send in your stories and evidence relating to ESA, Atos and Work Capability Assessments. I want to beg every last one of you who has written to me, who has shared your story, who has filled in a DWP form, who has been mistreated and let down to write to her.

Raquel Rolnik’s email address is: srhousing@ohchr.org

You can also write to:
His Excellency Mr Ban Ki Moon
United Nations Secretary-General
UN Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
USA
E-mail: sgcentral@un.org
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/spartacus-please-write-to-un.html


Raquel Rolnik said she would look at all welfare changes and welcomed personal stories of the Work Capabilit Assessment and how it is affecting people. Therefore she wants to hear from you on this as this too will go to the UN General Council in March. Personal stories WILL be included in the report she presents to the UN GENERAL COUNCIL. She also wants stories of where people have been stopped from speaking out on the streets at events or meetings, as well.

email: srhousing@ohchr.org and they will forward information to Raquel Rolnik"
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Update, she is going for it big time...
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Right, big news, the U/N Rapporteur is definitely now extending her remit as apparently she has been shocked by the scale, depth and brutality of the Govts welfare reforms, especially that of the WCA/ATOS medicals, this is powerful stuff, get emailing/researching.


I always thought it would take something global to expose what is going on does not pass any notion of decency and genuine(not N/L/faux) fairness
 
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wants to examine all of the recent welfare changes and welcomes personal stories about the WCA and how it is affecting people. This is because concerns have been raised about the number of WCA related deaths due to deteriorating health or suicide.
“Once these accounts are collated the evidence will be presented to the United Nations General Council in March.
“You can email Raquel Rolnik about your experiences with Atos, the WCA or any other welfare reform issue at srhousing@ohchr.org
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latest, its going to the U.N General Council!
 
treelover said:
latest, its going to the U.N General Council!
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You can bet it isn't and won't be just the Tories and their media backers fulminating against any negative findings, as well as against the idea that the general council might receive such a report at all. All of the mainstream political parties will.
They'll do so on two bases, AFAICS.
1) On the basis that it's external interference that threatens the sovereignty of Parliament (a spurious argument, but the media, especially the right-wing media, will run with it).
2) On the basis that given the overwhelming neoliberal bent of the politics of the mainstream parties, their policies will be implicitly (and perhaps explicitly) criticised by any adverse findings in the report, and will be shown up as the inhumane and sometimes fatal piles of shit that they are.
 
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/grieving-mum-who-lost-nine-year-old-2284300

A GRIEVING mother has been hit by the bedroom tax – after her son died in a house fire.

Sheree McGill, 36, has been told she will have to pay the hated charge because nine-year-old Evan’s tragic death has left her house “under-occupied”.

Evan was killed when a blaze swept through his family’s home two days after Christmas in 2011.

Single mum Sheree and her four surviving children only returned to the house in Kilmarnock in February, after East Ayrshire Council paid to have it renovated.

In a bitter irony, she wrestled long and hard with whether to return to the place where she lost her beloved young son

But now she faces having to move her family again after officials at the Department for Work and Pensions have cut her housing benefit – because Evan is no longer alive to use his room.
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