Ministers have managed to implement an projected £530 million saving to Flexible New Deal Phase 2 after reducing the estimated referrals of long-term unemployed persons by around half. This means that contracts will fall in value. The largest Phase 2 contract is for East London which was worth £130 million over 5 years and is [...]
["Flexible New Deal Phase 2 set for meltdown?"] | 1 Comment so farJobcentre Plus gives reason for this new legislation of Welfare Reform to sanction jobseekers, as to cover administration costs of closing down claims and reopening them. Apparently 12,000 Jobseekers have their claims closed every month for this reason and get a 2 day sanction. I worked it out (taking an average of both Jobseeker’s Allowance [...]
["Jobcentre Plus says administration costs of closing and reopening claims cost up to £130 each time"] | 3 Comments!From 6th April all jobseekers will be threatened with an additional 1-2 week sanctions for not having “good cause” for failing to attend interviews, signing on, or for attending at the wrong time. So much for a right to Social Security. When will the attack on the unemployed stop? (Excuse the title) Jobseekers are likely [...]
["“Unemployed scum” targeted by even more sanctions"] | 4 Comments!We recently reported that Work for Your Benefit providers can sell workfare participants to businesses. This post is focused more on the amounts of money the working “slaves” will receive and the providers income; another post will be for the mistreatment and other concerns. We are using the figures mentioned in Jobseekers Allowance isn’t enough!
["Work for Your Benefit is Slavery"] | 14 Comments!Welfare to Work providers including those delivering the Flexible New Deal are set to gain from a multi-million pound profit windfall by fraudulently taking advantage of a loophole in the system to determine Job Outcomes.
["Flexible New Deal Providers set to defraud Government"] | 13 Comments!The Government’s Work for Your Benefit (“workfare”) scheme has been uprated from Mild Servitude to Slavery. Providers of the scheme are able to lease out their participants to private businesses in return for money.
["Work for Your Benefit: providers to sell workfare victims to private businesses?"] | 9 Comments!The Government launched a several event initiative to get Young People back into employment – although the career fair (not a job fair) was advertised on the radio as an event for those who have never worked before. Flexible New Deal Scandal has collate some feedback from the Ipswich event.
["Backing Young Britain — Careers Fair feedback"] | 3 Comments!Well, we haven’t run on the Work for Your Benefits (workfare) yet. Apparently one of the businesses shortlisted to run the scheme is TBG Learning. Has anyone heard of them? What does TBG stand for?
["TBG Learning to run workfare pilots?"] | No Comments: Be the first!Lib Dem MP John Leech opposes the Work for your Benefit scheme stating: I am opposed to the ‘Work for your Benefit’ element as it is wrong to make people work for less than minimum wage. Moreover, it is unfair to punish people who have been unable to get a job by treating them as [...]
["John Leech MP opposes Work for your Benefit scheme"] | 5 Comments!So, Flexible New Deal providers can give you a fixed sanction… actually they can give variable sanctions too. There is some confusion as to the extent of their powers. Flexible New Deal scandal is going to explain the legalities around this and the people who are able to direct people and who can raise sanction [...]
["Flexible New Deal: Who can award sanction doubts?"] | 14 Comments!Originally posted by Flexible New Deal scandal blog contributor Spanner… If you liked school, you’ll love work. The cruel, absurd abuses of power, the self-satisfied authority that the teachers and principals lorded over you, the intimidation and ridicule of your classmates don’t end at graduation. Those things are all present in the adult world, only [...]
["If you liked school, you’ll love work."] | No Comments: Be the first!Unlike Benefit Busters, we didn’t decide to roll with this programme… there was no real point to be made from it. We weren’t going to help with their promotions prior to the broadcast of the “Famous, Rich and Jobless” programme.
["Famous, Rich and Jobless"] | 8 Comments!Only 3 weeks left until Jobcentre Plus job search is completely replaced with the direct.gov job search system. This site is closing on 31 March 2010. All jobs found on this site are available on the DirectGov website. Find a job now using the jobs and skills search Please save ‘jobs and skills’ as one [...]
["Jobcentre Plus Job Search: 3 weeks left"] | 1 Comment so farPertemps People Development Group has reached number 19 in the The Sunday Timeslist of the “100 Best Companies to Work For 2010″. Ben Birchall, HR director, Pertemps People Development Group, says: “It was undoubtedly a tough year for everyone at PPDG and all Welfare-to-Work providers that had to weather the storm of staff turnover and [...]
["Pertemps People Development Group: top 20 company to work for"] | 2 Comments!It will be Greater Manchester Job Seekers who will be first in line to suffer a mandatory 6 months of 40 hours per week work in return of their benefits. This Work for Your Benefits (WfYB) pilot scheme will begin when Flexible New Deal Phase 2 begins in parts of the country which isn’t already [...]
["Manchester Jobseekers: 40 hours week workfare for 6 months"] | 6 Comments!I personally think they do as I have experienced it… they sent me all information APART from information regarding sanctions etc. relevant to an appeal. It seems I am not the only one who thinks this… Dear Department for Work and Pensions, After serving the department with a subject access request they have failed to [...]
["Do DWP withhold Data Protection Act requests for appeals?"] | No Comments: Be the first!It is rather common to hear how the Department for Work and Pensions have messed up yet another benefit claim, however, today I report about a blog article I found where a woman battled with cancer and rather recently sadly passed away. The Pension Service part of the Pension, Disability and Carers Service (an executive [...]
["DWP beaurocratic incompetence results to more heartache"] | 25 Comments!Flexible New Deal Scandal is back! New site design is obvious, with the posts and comments still here….
["New site: new future"] | 3 Comments!Unemployment action group, Ipswich Unemployed Action, has recently done the unthinkable. Ipswich Unemployed Action have managed to advise and support YMCA Training into delivering their financial annual accounts with Companies House.
["Ipswich Unemployed Action helps YMCA Training file their accounts"] | No Comments: Be the first!
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