Finally! An update on the DWP and the New Deal £4 weekly travel deductions issue. New Deal Scandal pointed out that the £4 weekly travel deductions on New Deal was unlawful due to no legislation making provision for such taxation… and DWP have finally admitted: There is no legislation involved in this decision. The travel [...]
["New Deal Travel Deductions: DWP admits £4 deductions are unlawful"] | 17 Comments!This is just a post on Jobcentre Plus’ constant misbehaviour of accusing its “customers” (claimants) of acting in a way different to the actual events – unsubstantiated without evidence and even have the allegiance, endurance and persistance to uphold such false allegations when the claimant has evidence to prove otherwise! As I came across a post [...]
["More Jobcentre Plus unsubstantiated false allegations…"] | 5 Comments!The Flexible New Deal Scandal network is pleased to announce the launch of our Flexible New Deal search engine.
["Flexible New Deal Search Engine"] | 3 Comments!Another TNG Complaint So Avanta’s TNG (Training Network Group) are in the spotlight again. In Ipswich, they have been sending incorrect destination instructions to Flexible New Deal participants. Yes, failure to attend results in sanctions. Shows a map to a different place than the actual location – about half a mile difference Directs those who [...]
["Flexible New Deal: TNG Complaint – we dont know how to get there"] | 2 Comments!Another Working Links Flexible New Deal complaint! Typically with New Deal and Flexible New Deal we hear how bad people are treated including overcrowded rooms and 30 hour job search per week but we do not hear much about how New Deal and Flexible New Deal providers (Flexible New Deal prime contractors and subcontractors) try [...]
["Flexible New Deal: Criticism of Dan Owens CV written by Working Links"] | 12 Comments!So, it has been 6 weeks since my First tier Social Security and Child Support Appeal Tribunal regarding Sanctioned Jobseekers Allowance. No sign of any payment and also no contact from DWP or Jobcentre Plus about it. Is this common for everyone who goes to an Appeal Tribunal?
["Appeal Tribunal: 6 weeks, no money"] | 3 Comments!In 2010 the Government’s Young Person’s Guarantee will kick in. As part of this, a Community Task Force (CTF) will become mandatory for all 18-24 year olds who have been claiming over 12 months. In January 2010, it will be optional to take part. By Spring 2010 it will become mandatory. The Community Task Force [...]
["Workfare: Community Task Force"] | 1 Comment so farSo, there are hundreds of websites out there giving tips to jobseekers. Regardless of the fact those who are responsible for the content having jobs so might imply success, these people haven’t tested them, and many of the tips are outdated or focused for a different country (i.e. USA, Australia etc.) although the foreign company [...]
["10 Really useful jobseeker tips"] | 7 Comments!It was scheduled for Monday 7th December 2009 at 7.30pm; BBC Inside Out Yorkshire & Lincs was to run a story on A4e. Today I went on iPlayer and found the following description: Nicola Rees looks at what we can learn from past flu pandemics, and Johnny Nelson accompanies a young Bradford man as he [...]
["BBC Inside Out: A4e content replaced with Clouds"] | 2 Comments!Larry Lamb (famous for playing villain Archie Mitchell in EastEnders and also starring in Gavin and Stacey) is leaving EastEnders and due to star in a new BBC television documentary on unemployed designed to rival Channel 4′s attempt (Benefit Busters). The documentary is designed to follow probes into how the unemployed are treated – and [...]
["Larry Lamb from Eastenders probes A4e Gateshead"] | 1 Comment so farI have been tipped off by a blog viewer about the issue with a Decision Maker trying to apply a sanction for failing to apply for a job given to her as a Jobseeker Direction which is clearly “unreasonable”.
["Jobcentre Plus: where do they get the Decision Makers from?"] | 13 Comments!We recently reported of an Working Links Flexible New Deal complaint and the complainant has received a response from Working Links… 30th November 2009 Dear Mr Owen Further to my letter dated 19/11/09. I am writing to inform you of findings and actions I have made to resolve your complaint. With reference to the issue [...]
["Flexible New Deal: Working Links complaint… follow up"] | 1 Comment so farWe have received reports that some Flexible New Deal providers are requesting the following evidence for the initial interview: Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) signing book (ES40) A passport, driving licence (card type with photo), birth certificate or medical card
["Flexible New Deal: providers request passport, driving licence or birth certificate"] | 17 Comments!How much do you think Jobcentre Plus’ failed job system costs per year to run? £1 million? £5 million? £10 million? No… the Labour Market System (LMS) costs £39, 663, 300 per year to run. The Department for Work and Pensions didn’t want to disclose the initial setup costs of the Labour Market System under [...]
["Welfare Reform: Jobcentre Plus needs to scrap its £40m per year Labour Market System"] | 8 Comments!Jobcentre Plus contact details: telephone numbers Soon all Jobcentre Plus phone numbers will be 0845 numbers. Flexible New Deal Scandal has listed the old/current numbers.
["Jobcentre Plus telephone numbers"] | 2 Comments!We recently reported about a TNG Flexible New Deal complaint about: Faking paperwork – forcing participants to sign to say TNG have done stuff they haven’t. Lack of equipment – didn’t have a cd/dvd drive to obtain someones CV from CD ROM. No contact details – Jobcentre Plus not giving address or phone number of the [...]
["Flexible New Deal: TNG will never change"] | 5 Comments!351 Jobcentre Plus advertised jobs were in the Adult Entertainment Industry Between August 2007 and July 2008 Jobcentre Plus advertised 2.26 million job vacancies, 351 vacancies existed in this period as in the Adult Entertainment industry for jobs such as adult model, adult entertainment presenter, stripper, adult phone chat services and cam girl this equates [...]
["351 Jobcentre Plus advertised jobs were in the Adult Entertainment Industry"] | 3 Comments!Another TNG Flexible New Deal complaint! Flexible New Deal scandal can report there is another complaint about TNG and Flexible New Deal…
["Oh dear, another TNG Flexible New Deal complaint!"] | 10 Comments!So, Darren Marsh has been back to our site requesting another censorship! Is it number 4, number 5? I am loosing track on the attempts. Let’s not forget they managed to shut down the original Watching A4e website before too and I am sure many more others!
["A4e attempts another censorship… number 5.. ?"] | 7 Comments!The Word on the Street is that TNG (which stands for The Next Generation (Star Trek), Tongue, The Naked Gun, Training, Trade Negotiating Group, Transitional National Government or Training Network Group – we don’t know their website doesn’t tell us) has the following plans for Flexible New Deal delivery. We can’t specify its accuracy as it [...]
["Flexible New Deal: TNG"] | No Comments: Be the first!Working Links: Another Flexible New Deal complaint Flexible New Deal Scandal is updated with another complaint about the Government’s newly “improved” version of the original New Deal scheme (as renamed Flexible New Deal). The provider is Working Links….
["Flexible New Deal: another complaint… (Working Links)"] | 8 Comments!New Deal Scandal has learnt that numerous jobseekers who have been advised by Jobcentre Plus that a Flexible New Deal provider shall be contacting them within 2 weeks by phone or post have not heard anything from the Flexible New Deal provider.
["Flexible New Deal: Providers not contacting clients"] | 6 Comments!When someone requested a list of the Flexible New Deal phase 1 subcontractors from the Department for Work and Pensions, considering that a) the contracts have been awarded and b) that the Flexible New Deal prime contractors have to disclose the subcontractors with the DWP; you would have thought such a request would have been [...]
["Flexible New Deal subcontractors 'not readily available'"] | 1 Comment so farFlexible New Deal: Mandatory Work Related Activity So… under Flexible New Deal there is a minimum requirement of 4 weeks of continuous fulltime “work related activity” compared to under New Deal an optional at Provider discretion 10 weeks of work experience on average (10 weeks takes account of one day a weeks jobsearch which hasn’t [...]
["Flexible New Deal: Mandatory Work Related Activity"] | 11 Comments!Flexible New Deal Sanction Register In the next few weeks we will be launching a Flexible New Deal Sanction Register where jobseekers on Flexible New Deal who have received either a Flexible New Deal fixed sanction or variable sanction can register it so other jobseekers can view it. This is not official – [...]
["Flexible New Deal Sanction Register"] | 4 Comments!Flexible New Deal: Decision Maker exchanging information with Providers What I feel is inappropriate is the Jobcentre Plus Decision Maker will exchange the following types of information with the Provider: Whether the Decision Maker has sanctioned someone or not All information about a participants Appeal and whether it is successful or not I don’t agree [...]
["Flexible New Deal: Decision Maker exchanging information with Providers"] | 2 Comments!Jobcentre Plus Benefit Delivery Centre Phone Numbers Aberdeen 0845 608 8749 Arbroath 0845 600 1506 / 0845 608 8749 Barnsley 0845 608 8560 Basildon 0845 608 8575 Bathgate 0845 608 8630 Belfast 0845 608 8770 / 0845 603 5759 Birkenhead 0845 608 8529 Bolton 0845 608 8531 Bradford 0845 608 8556 Bristol 0845 608 8597 [...]
["Jobcentre Plus Benefit Delivery Centre Phone Numbers"] | 51 Comments!Warning about new Jobseeker Agreements OK, this is not entirely new but Jobseekers might not be aware of the difference in their Jobseeker’s Agreement(JSAg) if they modify it or if they are creating a new one for a new claim.
["Warning about new Jobseeker Agreements"] | 10 Comments!Flexible New Deal: a scrounger witch hunt! Dan Owen from Claimants Action South Wales posted a very interesting comment on New Deal Scandal .co.uk blog stating Flexible New Deal is worse than New Deal and Employment Zones, and the sole intention of Flexible New Deal being a witch hunt for scroungers. I agree with him, but [...]
["Flexible New Deal: a scrounger witch hunt!"] | 10 Comments!Flexible New Deal: first complaint, first of many? Only in its second month participants are already complaining about Flexible New Deal. Sorry to mislead with the publish date much later, this complaint was actually made within 2 weeks of Flexible New Deal. The complaint is about the mistreatment of one participant with Working Links. I [...]
["Flexible New Deal: first complaint, first of many?"] | 1 Comment so farFlexible New Deal: A step back from New Deal? New Deal VSO Vs Flexible New Deal Although people’s experiences have varied the general idea of the Voluntary Sector Option New Deal scheme was an induction week focusing on CV’s and Application Forms with mild team bulding and job search activity, and 12 weeks of work [...]
["Flexible New Deal: A step back from New Deal?"] | No Comments: Be the first!Flexible New Deal Guidance Customer identity checks/fraud action 14.14. It is important that in any communications with customers you verify the customers identity, ensuring that you are satisfied the customer is who they say they are. These checks could include asking the customer to state their: full name; date of birth; address; and National Insurance [...]
["Flexible New Deal: Customer identity checks"] | 1 Comment so farFlexible New Deal Flexible New Deal: What you can expect and what we expect from you (FND1 10/09) Page 2 Jobcentre Plus and The Pension Service and the Disability and Carers Service are all part of the Department for Work and Pensions. Each part delivers services to different groups of people, but the whole [...]
["Flexible New Deal: what you can expect and what we expect from you"] | 4 Comments!Today, I travelled to my Tribunal (details I will post separately) and the whole system is pathetic! From my experience I have realised that an Appeal Tribunal is simply a tick box to make you feel like you have done your best. After all DWP select the rules (regardless of what the law states) and [...]
["Social Security and Child Support Appeal Tribunal: pathetic!"] | 5 Comments!SAVE DLA AND ALL DISABILITY BENEFITS Tony Greenstein Having already abolished Incapacity Benefit, New Labour has now made it clear that it wants to scrap ALL disability benefits. On July 14th New Labour published a Green Paper, Shaping the Future of Care. Reading through the spin, the message is clear. Disability Living Allowance is ‘inefficient’ [...]
["Save Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance"] | 2 Comments!New Deal is bad for your health!
["New Deal is bad for your health"] | 18 Comments!New Deal Scandal exposes the scam that is the Labour Market System (LMS) or simply put the pool of jobs Employment Officers, New Deal Personal Advisers and Jobseeker Direct staff give to jobseekers as Jobseeker Directions and those on the jobpoints and the direct gov and jobcentre plus websites.
["Jobcentre Plus Labour Market System"] | 42 Comments!New Deal Scandal can reveal that the former Finance Director was demoted after A4e recruited Sarah Aston, A4e’s newly created position of Group Head of Risk, in April 2009, designed to centrally combat fraud for Flexible New Deal contracts.
["A4e Finance Director demoted after Group Head of Risk recruited"] | 3 Comments!Taken from Watching A4e’s Two Memoranda article: A4e says that it has introduced a procedure whereby 50% of all claims are routinely checked by an independent team which phones the employer to verify that the client is working there, and can check with the Jobcentre that the client is off benefit. Whats the point of getting [...]
["A4e only checks half of claims before claiming job outcomes"] | 10 Comments!Section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 enables the Secretary of State to approve arrangements “for the purpose of assisting persons to select, train for, obtain and retain employment suitable for their ages and capacities”. The New Deal Employment Subsidy (New Deal only vacancies) is administered under this Act.
["7260 New Deal vacancies advertised in the last year"] | 14 Comments!So, with Flexible New Deal jobseekers are meant to have the following privileges: “Customer Choice“: ability to (in some areas) choose provider Receiving a statement: stating expectations, how the provider is paid and how they can complain to the Ombudsman Independent Ombudsman: as a last resort to complain to Flexible New Deal providers get the [...]
["Where is the Flexible New Deal Ombudsman?"] | 7 Comments!Today I have received an email from a New Deal Scandal blog reader and ex-New Deal participant who is upset at his mistreatment of this New Deal farce: I know its a diabolical situation & I am so glad I found your website because I was beginning to think it was just me who thought [...]
["Dear Gordon Brown"] | No Comments: Be the first!You the blog reader may decide. Emma Harrison claims that A4e is a victim of fraud… really? Not exactly a new issue or article worthy of being called “news”, however, I would like to report corporate happenings behind big businesses such as A4e. New Deal Scandal already reported about an director of A4e of the [...]
["Victim of Fraud: A4e or the Taxpayer?"] | 2 Comments!I am proud to acknowledge that New Deal Scandal is #1 for Flexible New Deal on Yahoo – this is above all providers. Screenshot enclosed.
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