Jobcentre Plus ignores law: continues to unlawfully sanction
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Flexible New Deal Scandal discovers that Jobcentre Plus is ignoring the law in regards to sanctions on Flexible New Deal.Those who have signed for the “FND1″ Flexible New Deal Guidance booklet may get a sanction even if the Flexible New Deal provider employee isn’t able to issue a Jobseeker Direction (JSD) and to report sanction doubts under law.
Jobcentre Plus are saying that Flexible New Deal providers do not require issuing a Jobseeker Direction (JSD): a normal letter (that is a JSD, but lets not go there) is enough along with your understanding as signing for the FND1 booklet made you aware of responsibilities etc. of Flexible New Deal.
Thanks to the few people who came forward and alerted us about this. Keep appealing to Appeal Tribunal!
We disagree with the Jobcentre Plus argument and realise this is more reasons to support the (abolish) Unlawful Sanctions campaign.
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Well I also know that jobcentreplus local offices have no power to get the third part provider to do anything. The manager of Halesowen job entre said se was just a go between and had no official power.
I was given the fnd1 booklet and told to sign for it eventhough I am visually impaired and they eventually issued me with a large print booklet.
On meeting the managers at halesowen job centre they said that lessons had been learned and that they had told their head office that thy needed to keeplarge print booklets in stock. I am curios to know whether or not large print booklets are now available.
You could do a FoI request to find out that information – either locally, regionally or nationally.
You are however looking at 3 months perhaps to get the information and thats if they dont say the information is unavailable (Under FoI they cant create information or collate it: they only need to search internal and published statistics, reports etc. so unless that information was required to be reported centrally etc. it could not exist to FoI team)
Good point, about urging jobseekers to use the Appeal ptocess. If enough jobseekers took the trouble to do this instead of just moaning things might get better as the DWP would know they had a problem when they got 100s of appeals on the same thing.
The problem is that the appeals process takes time. The system used to operate that people with a ‘doubt’ on their claim would only have their money stopped after the appeal was heard. That old ‘innocent till proven guilty’ idea that the liberals are so fond of; lazy bastards.
Now it’s the other way around so that whil waitin for your appeal, which of course you should make, you have to worry about having no money. And if yuo are claiming JSA and got sacntioned, in order for your claim to continue you have to still turn up to sign on. Good luck doing that if you can’t afford the bus fare.
Take a look at this flexible I thought this page was a joke at first. How can labour beleive he bull they are shovelling ?
http://grayee.blogspot.com/2010/04/modern-day-slavery-uk-2010.html
I have found this dunno where it should be
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=161142165184
the unemployed workers union
the problem is they have been getting away with it, and hope people will stay quite.some time ago when i had a dubious sanction that was overturned before appeal a job centre member of staff was repeated saying “are you satisfied are you satisfied”,either this person was totally naive or was taking me for an idiot.
its just plain nastiness in many cases with no proof and total disregard of the facts only backing down when faced with total embarrassment,these people do not play by the book only what they often distortedly think as their own perception to those they see as claiming money disregarding the need.having said this the same could be said of the providers’ themselves only this time in multi million pound contracts’ they are somewhat quiter in their attitudes’ after numerous scandal/fraud cases have surfaced and as frank field labour mp called results woeful.