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Work Programme "Failing", it's Official.10 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 1 day ago: A new Report is out today. The government’s work programme, intended to help jobseekers back t … more →

Tags: Unemployment, Jobseekers' allowance, Welfare State, Welfare Reform, /work programme, Ian Duncan Smith, Universal Jobmatch, Universal Credit, DWP

Sanctions Report: Questions Unanswered.28 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 6 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, Ian Duncan Smith, Jobseekers' allowance, Sanctions, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, Welfare State

Benefit Cap: Eviction Notices from Genesis in London. When will Genesis Ipswich Follow?9 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 2 weeks ago: Tenants participating in a trial of the government’s controversial benefit cap are being sent … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, Cuts, housing benefit, Ipswich, Suffolk, Welfare Reform, Genesis, housing benefit cap, Politics

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

Andrew Coates wrote 1 month ago: Work and Pensions Committee Select Committee Press Notice   NEW INQUIRY   Committee to examine the r … more →

Tags: DWP, Government, Ian Duncan Smith, Welfare Reform, Welfare State, Work Experience, /work programme, Workfare

Sanctioning the Jobless.11 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 1 month ago: The truth behind ‘sanctioning’ the jobless. This important article is from today’s … more →

Tags: Government, Welfare State, Welfare Reform, /work programme, Cuts, DWP, Welfare, work and pensions, Weasel words

UK Unemployment Rise in "Tribute to Baroness Thatcher".10 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 1 month ago: In a fitting tribute to Baroness Thatcher this was announced on the day when her remains were consec … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, Fraud, Government, Tories, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, Welfare State, Politics, Thatcher

Protests over Welfare Reform: Lord Freud Put Outside his Comfort Zone.9 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 1 month ago: From the BBC,   The BBC’s Tom Symonds: “Protesters have taken over the road”Up to … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, Cuts, David Freud, Fraud, Government, Ian Duncan Smith, James Purnell, Unemployment, Welfare Reform

Thatcher Dies. 45 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 1 month ago: No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, Government, Ian Duncan Smith, Welfare Reform, Welfare State, Aneurin Bevan, Tory Party, totries, Vermin

Springtime for Tories as they Glory in Philpott's Conviction. 29 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 1 month ago: Ever keen to sink a new low the Tories are now blaming the welfare state for odious killer Mick Phil … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, Cuts, Fraud, Government, Ian Duncan Smith, Internet, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, Welfare State

Bedroom Tax, Now Even Frank Field Joins Protests.4 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 1 month ago: Today in the Independent. Brick up your doors, knock down the walls’: Labour MP Frank Field makes dr … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, Council Tax, Cuts, housing benefit, James Purnell, Bedroom tax, labour mp

Job Centres: Let's Try a Test Case on Scum Sanctions. 45 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 1 month ago: This article has not ceased creating waves.   Jobcentre staff have contacted the Guardian to say it … more →

Tags: Cuts, Fraud, Government, Ian Duncan Smith, Benefits, Jobcentres, Welfare State

BBC: Setting the People Against the 'Undeserving Poor'.32 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 2 months ago: This week the BBC has joined in a new sport: setting the “deserving” against the “ … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, Cuts, Fraud, Government, Ian Duncan Smith, Tories, TV Shows on Unemployed, BBC, Current Events

Workfare To Be Made Restrospectively Legal.44 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 2 months ago: This is important. Scheming ministers plot workfare scam by Paddy McGuffin. Shameless Department for … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, DWP, Fraud, Ian Duncan Smith, Welfare Reform, Welfare State, Workfare, Government, Iain Duncan Smith

BBC Documentary Asks For Our Opinions on Benefits. 176 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 2 months ago: Ipswich Unemployed Action  has been asked (really,…not made up, promise..)by the producers of … more →

Tags: Government, housing benefit, Internet, TV Shows on Unemployed, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, Welfare State, /work programme, BBC

Report Finds Work Programme Performance "Extremely Poor."27 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 2 months ago: Today’s news. The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, today s … more →

Tags: Jobseekers' allowance, Tories, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, Welfare State, Work Experience, /work programme, Workfare, Climate

Welfare to Work Conference: Get Your Sponsorship in Now!9 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 3 months ago: Welfare to Work UK Convention 2013 9th July 2013 – 10th July 2013 Manchester Central Conventio … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, Welfare State, Work Experience, /work programme, Charities, Environment, welfare to work

Cait Reilly and Jamieson Wilson: Court Rules Workfare Unlawful.53 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 3 months ago: Workfare ruled illegal? The Court of Appeal has ruled university graduate Cait Reilly’s claim that r … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, employment programme, Government, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, Work Experience, Workfare, Cait Reilly and Jamieson Wilson, Current Events

MPs Attack ATOS: DWP and Government to Blame. 15 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 3 months ago: The BBC today, MPs have criticised the test being used to see whether people claiming disability ben … more →

Tags: atos, Campaigns for Unemployed, Government, Incapacity Benefit, Welfare Reform, Welfare

New Poll Tax for the Working Poor and Unemployed as Council Tax Blow Approaches.19 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 3 months ago: Tories and Liberals Introduce New Poll Tax: Will We Fight Back? A little later than Ipswich Unemploy … more →

Tags: Campaigns for Unemployed, Council Tax, Cuts, Government, housing benefit, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, benefit reform, Council tax benefit


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