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Carry the Can Food Bank Event in Ipswich.2 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 1 day ago: This is well meaning but  desperately sad. This Sunday (19th May)  No Morning Service,  We are meeti … more →

Tags: Cuts, Suffolk, Welfare Reform, Welfare State, food banks, Human Rights, Ipswich

Memoirs of a benefits scrounger: Jobcentre sanctions me for getting a job 4 comments

Slutocrat wrote 2 days ago: My transition from good-for-nothing benefits scrounger to upstanding citizen is only a phone call aw … more →

Tags: Employment rights, unemployment, Jobcentre & workfa, DWP, Jobseekers' allowance, Jobcentre, Workfare, criticism, True Story, Benefits Scrounger, Jobcentre policy

Sanctions Report: Questions Unanswered.26 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 4 days ago: An internal inquiry at the Department for Work and Pensions into the covert regime of welfare target … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, employment programme, Government, Jobseekers' allowance, Liberal Tory Coalition, Sanctions, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, Welfare State

Politicians, Statistics, the Spin and the Lies

lurpack1 wrote 6 days ago: It’s comes as no surprise that the current government would blatantly lie to the public. It … more →

Tags: UK, uk politics, UK economy, lies, Inflation, politicians, IDS, Michael Gove, Morals

The Ingeus Diaries: a jobseeker's report of an Ingeus programme

Slutocrat wrote 1 week ago: Meg is a middle-aged migrant woman with a degree and 9 years’ experience as a legal secretary. … more →

Tags: Employment rights, unemployment, Jobcentre & workfa, DWP, Jobseekers' allowance, Jobcentre, Jobseekers, unemployed, Workfare, ingeus, True Story

STATISTICS AUTHORITY REPORT ON STATISTICS RELATING TO DWP WORK PROGRAMME AND PRE-WORK PROGRAMME

D Rosier wrote 1 week ago: Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, Andrew Dilnot CBE Rt. Hon. Iain Duncan Smith MP Secretary of S … more →

Tags: News, ESA, DLA & PIP, DLA, Pip, Personal Independence Payments, disability living allowance, DWP, /work programme, Employment and Support Allowance

Iain Duncan Smith Officially Rebuked For Making False Benefit Cap Claim

D Rosier wrote 1 week ago: By Ned Simons Iain Duncan Smith has been rebuked for falsely claiming the coalition’s controve … more →

Tags: Campaigns, ESA, DLA & PIP, DLA, Pip, Personal Independence Payments, disability living allowance, esa, Employment & Support Allowance, Welfare reforms

Disabled To Lose £3,000 In Benefits

D Rosier wrote 1 week ago: This article written by Rory MacKinnon was first published by the Morning Star on 7 May 2013. Just o … more →

Tags: News, ESA, DLA & PIP, Benefits, DLA, Pip, Personal Independence Payments, disability living allowance, Jobseekers' allowance, Employment and Support Allowance

Universal Credit Web Site Can't Spell and Barely Works. 14 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 2 weeks ago: The Guardian reports, The first step of the claim form for the government’s flagship welfare r … more →

Tags: Government, Unemployment, Universal Credit, Welfare Reform, Welfare State, Environment, Politics

David wrote 2 weeks ago: The stark reality behind the rhetoric of Iain Duncan-Smith.  Ian Duncan smith really is a complete a … more →

Tags: David's collection of posts, Random Ponderings, Politics, Life, Society, Unemployment, Underemployed, vacant jobs, work pay

85% of Claimants "On-Line" Says Ian Duncan Smith.17 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 3 weeks ago: On BBC Breakfast this morning Ian Duncan Smith was interviewed about the Universal Credit pilot star … more →

Tags: TV Shows on Unemployed, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, Welfare State, Government, Internet 2, Universal Credit

Going Solo...

Robin_Long wrote 3 weeks ago: Well after 10 years and 6 months of marriage it finally ended in March of this year. Just over a dec … more →

Tags: marrage, IDS, David Cameron, poverty, Homeless

Abolishing the universal state pension - the new Westminster consensus?1 comment

Neil Schofield wrote 3 weeks ago: Over the weekend, Ian Duncan Smith made widely reported comments that wealthy pensioners should be p … more →

Tags: Economics 2, Privatisation, uk politics, Liam Byrne, Margaret Thatcher, owen jones, Universal benefit, universal pension

Lifestyle Choice

Candia wrote 3 weeks ago: Juniper Boothroyd-Smythe, l’enfant terrible of St Vitus’ School for the Academically Gif … more →

Tags: Suttonford, News, Madonna, Yarn Bombing, silver fashionista, Ari Seth Cohen, Jenny joseph: When I am an Old Woman, Gin Blog, Gin Foundry

IDS: Mass amount of 'capable' unemployment claimants are to blame for slow economy

updowningstreet wrote 3 weeks ago: The secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pension has blasted long-term unemployment cla … more →

Tags: benefit, Climate, Economy, Government, IDS, Welfare

A million on benefit capable of work

OyiaBrown wrote 3 weeks ago: The Work and Pensions Secretary will release figures showing how many people are long-term claimants … more →

Tags: Articles, Ed Miliband, dependancy culture, spiralling benefits bill

Disabled face losing homes under benefit cutbacks, 24th April 2013

argotina1 wrote 3 weeks ago: from ‘The Independent’ 24/4/2013 by Leaked documents warned ministers that reform would … more →

Tags: Bedroom tax, disability benefits, atos, Fit to work, housing association, Disabled, Welfare, benefit, DWP

Committee to examine the role of Jobcentre Plus in the reformed welfare system10 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 4 weeks ago: Work and Pensions Committee Select Committee Press Notice   NEW INQUIRY   Committee to examine the r … more →

Tags: DWP, Government, Liberal Tory Coalition, Welfare Reform, Welfare State, Work Experience, /work programme, Workfare

UK UNEMPLOYMENT UP TO 2.56 MILLION

allnightscorruption wrote 1 month ago: So all these illegal, immoral and inhumane treatment of the British Public and DISABLED people, like … more →

Tags: corruption, uk corruption, uk unemployment, unemployment figures, Unemployment Up


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