campaign against welfare cuts and poverty

[Awesome Wells]

Bet that's one debate he won't be walking out of.

 

[Frankie Jack]

Oddly I've just looked and he's gone. Will be back for the vote no doubt.

 

[ddraig]

DPAC campaigner questions DWP Barclays DisabilityCONFIDENT conference

shame on Simon Weston too

 

[Awesome Wells]

What a lovely man we all thought Simon 'shut your face' Weston is. This plucky hero who survived terrible facial injuries in the Falklands.

What a shameful attitude..

 

[treelover]

ATOS - named after the Greek God of Shafting the Sick and Infirm.

 

[Awesome Wells]

If Simon Weston is a Thatcherite then he really is a twat: she sent him to get his face burned a thousand miles from England. All so she could stay in office and sow the legacy the gentleman, very eloquently, criticises in that clip. Oh how the world turns...

 

[ViolentPanda]

ATOS - named after the Greek God of Shafting the Sick and Infirm.

I understand he tried to get Hephaestus, the Greek G-d of Smiths, put on the Work Program.

 

[Greebo]

If Simon Weston is a Thatcherite then he really is a twat: she sent him to get his face burned a thousand miles from England. <snip>

you seem to forget that a lot of current and former people in the army, navy, and RAF tend to be at least conservative even if not Conservatives.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I've no idea how people in the army vote. Simon Weston however has had a considerable profile over the years. One might argue that might expose him more to the opinions spoken by the person he's rudely dismissive of in that video. I guess not.

 

[Frankie Jack]

Painful to read bullshit statement about Atos contract ending.
Penning..
"My commitment to performance is why my department took immediate action last
summer when we identified significant quality failures in the written reports produced by Atos following assessments."



http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-vote-office/March_2014/27 March/32-DWP-Atos.pdf

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

they are a shower of wankers basically.

 

[treelover]

 

[Frankie Jack]

.Gov benefits calculator has been shut down. Now redirecting to an independent site entitled to for info. They kept this quiet.


Benefits Adviser shut down on 30 March 2014. You can’t use the service or access your answers.
Use independent benefits calculator entitledto to find out what benefits you could get and how to claim.

You can answer questions anonymously.


https://www.gov.uk/benefits-calculators

 

[Jackobi]

.Gov benefits calculator has been shut down. Now redirecting to an independent site entitled to for info. They kept this quiet.

Great, so potential claimants and current claimants have to rely on an independent site that could close down at any time itself. A cynic might think it was a ploy to prevent people from finding out which benefits they can claim.

 

[Frankie Jack]

Yep.

 

[Greebo]

.Gov benefits calculator has been shut down. Now redirecting to an independent site entitled to for info. They kept this quiet. <snip>

 

[StoneRoad]

shutting that .gov benefits calculator down in favour of an "independent" site with adverts !!!! (look at their funding page)
.............. that stinks.
the cynical reason ^^^^^ +1 and to "save money / gov't headcount" is my guess.

 

[Frankie Jack]

Adblock stops all that gubbins appearing on my sites thankfully.

 

[Frankie Jack]

Big changes for Jobseekers and lone parents from 28 April
2014
Work related activity for lone parents with younger children
Those getting Income Support for being a lone parent will have to take part in work
focused interviews at the Jobcentre if they have a youngest child aged 1 to 4. The time and duration will be tailored to the needs of the lone parent.
Lone parents with a youngest child aged 3 or 4 will have to undertake mandatory ‘work related activity’ “to better prepare them for the full work-related requirements they will face when their child turns five”. This applies to those getting Income Support for being a lone parent or Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and in the Work Related Activity Group. It does not apply to those in the ESA support group.
Free Local Authority child care for up to 15 hours a week should enable this activity to take place. Lone parents will be told about these changes when they first claim or at their next work focused interview and in a factsheet.
Once a lone parent, whose youngest child is 3 or over, volunteers for the Work
Programme, participation will become mandatory.
Failure to comply with these activities – without good cause – means Income Support may be cut (sanctioned). It starts with a 20% cut but will increase to 100% for further failures. Only one Income Support sanction is allowed in a two week period

I don't have an online link for this pdf but the upload is here..

https://www.facebook.com/groups/274579539313735/506108452827508/

 

[Awesome Wells]

I don't know whether to laugh, cry or just keep the hell away from youtube.

 

[treelover]

Big changes for Jobseekers and lone parents from 28 April
2014
Work related activity for lone parents with younger children
Those getting Income Support for being a lone parent will have to take part in work
focused interviews at the Jobcentre if they have a youngest child aged 1 to 4. The time and duration will be tailored to the needs of the lone parent.
Lone parents with a youngest child aged 3 or 4 will have to undertake mandatory ‘work related activity’ “to better prepare them for the full work-related requirements they will face when their child turns five”. This applies to those getting Income Support for being a lone parent or Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and in the Work Related Activity Group. It does not apply to those in the ESA support group.
Free Local Authority child care for up to 15 hours a week should enable this activity to take place. Lone parents will be told about these changes when they first claim or at their next work focused interview and in a factsheet.
Once a lone parent, whose youngest child is 3 or over, volunteers for the Work
Programme, participation will become mandatory.
Failure to comply with these activities – without good cause – means Income Support may be cut (sanctioned). It starts with a 20% cut but will increase to 100% for further failures. Only one Income Support sanction is allowed in a two week period

I don't have an online link for this pdf but the upload is here..

https://www.facebook.com/groups/274579539313735/506108452827508/

disgusting, its a war on the poor.

 

[equationgirl]

Big changes for Jobseekers and lone parents from 28 April
2014
Work related activity for lone parents with younger children
Those getting Income Support for being a lone parent will have to take part in work
focused interviews at the Jobcentre if they have a youngest child aged 1 to 4. The time and duration will be tailored to the needs of the lone parent.
Lone parents with a youngest child aged 3 or 4 will have to undertake mandatory ‘work related activity’ “to better prepare them for the full work-related requirements they will face when their child turns five”. This applies to those getting Income Support for being a lone parent or Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and in the Work Related Activity Group. It does not apply to those in the ESA support group.
Free Local Authority child care for up to 15 hours a week should enable this activity to take place. Lone parents will be told about these changes when they first claim or at their next work focused interview and in a factsheet.
Once a lone parent, whose youngest child is 3 or over, volunteers for the Work
Programme, participation will become mandatory.
Failure to comply with these activities – without good cause – means Income Support may be cut (sanctioned). It starts with a 20% cut but will increase to 100% for further failures. Only one Income Support sanction is allowed in a two week period

I don't have an online link for this pdf but the upload is here..

https://www.facebook.com/groups/274579539313735/506108452827508/

I'd love to know where all these jobs that fit in around school and childcare hours are going to appear from.

 

[weepiper]

I'd love to know where all these jobs that fit in around school and childcare hours are going to appear from.

They're not jobs. It's workfare.

 

[equationgirl]

They're not jobs. It's workfare.

How many workfare placements will fit around chilcare and school commitments though? A lot of them just seem to be full time hours.

 

[treelover]

Will parents whose children have disabilities be exempt.

btw, it is looking as if Osborne is now running the show in relation to Workfare, gloves are off, Heydrich has taken over.

 

[treelover]

On another note has anyone actually been informed of being required to attend a community placement; we keep hearing about it but nothing appears to be happening. From what I gather at the local DWP office a lot of staff are being shifted around and last week’s signing was heaving with punter and carrot dangler alike whereas in the past it’s been fairly empty at least in the Reading office of an afternoon. The timing seems to indicate the April Osborne jazz is coming into play…

posted elsewhere

 

[weepiper]

How many workfare placements will fit around chilcare and school commitments though? A lot of them just seem to be full time hours.

I'm not sure they care about how it will fit. More opportunity to sanction people for refusing (and thus get their claimant figures down) if it doesn't fit anyway.

 

[treelover]

2nd National anti-atos/dwp sanctions protests happened yesterday, quite small really but all good.

interestingly, the SWP have all but disappeared.

 

[equationgirl]

I'm not sure they care about how it will fit. More opportunity to sanction people for refusing (and thus get their claimant figures down) if it doesn't fit anyway.

I hate all this shit, it's diabolical.

 

[treelover]

"More than 40 people carrying placards stating “this is a crime scene” and “cut to the bone” aired their feelings about the controversial Work Capability Assessment introduced a year ago."

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/n...er-unfair-disabled-work-assessments-1-5972903

Northhampton, looks good

Leader of Left Unity, Bianca Todd, is in the centre of the image.