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!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!Flexible New Deal Ombudsman There is meant to be a Flexible New Deal Ombudsman (was recommended) – which doesn’t currently exist. We are launching a new blog today that exposes such concerns to Flexible New Deal participants who might not be aware of such recommendations for an independent body to overlook and regulate Flexible New [...]
["Flexible New Deal Ombudsman: Where? New Blog launched"] | 15 Comments!A Freedom of Information request reveals that DWP’s Risk Assurance Division (RAD) received 60 referrals of allegations of fraud or abuse of New Deal programmes by New Deal providers for the period since April 2006 until end of December 2009.
["DWP Risk Assurance Division receives 60 New Deal Fraud allegations"] | 1 Comment so farAt the start of this century, a law called Freedom of Information Act was created. We do a lot of reporting of information obtained with this law and recently I have realised that information stopped becoming available from before the 2006-07 tax year – this is apparently due to them having a new computer system. [...]
["DWP destroys Freedom of Information data"] | No Comments: Be the first!Figures have been released after a Freedom of Information Act request revealing the extent of the Department for Work and Pensions own employment policies. They, however, refused to reveal how many dismissed members of staff signed on as a consequence. To summarise: 1 in 5 dismissed DWP employees sacked for Gross Misconduct 122 members of [...]
["1 in 5 DWP staff sacked for Gross Misconduct; DWP shreds 2.63% of total workforce"] | 5 Comments!New Deal Scandal has launched a new website called Flexible New Deal Discussion! Up until now the deal has been I wrote the blog article and you give feedback (whether positive or negative) – since then I have expanded the site so very little by allowing you to rate the article and each individual comment. [...]
["Flexible New Deal Discussion"] | 3 Comments!We have previously highlighted the Jobseekers Allowance Scandal of how the weekly rate doesn’t include any money to seek employment and what the £64.30 weekly payment is intended to cover. We will now highlight “How generous is Jobseekers Allowance?” and further criticise the amount of JSA.
["Is Jobseekers Allowance actually enough to live on?"] | 15 Comments!Ipswich Unemployed Action has reported that Local Government has given YMCA Training the go ahead to keep Dencora House detention centre open.
["Government keeps Ipswich Detention Centre open"] | 1 Comment so farNew Deal Scandal can today reveal the official DWP response of how the £64.50 (over 25) Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) is calculated, after the Department for Work and Pensions responded to a Freedom of Information Act request.
["£64.30 weekly jobseekers allowance broken into costs"] | 14 Comments!Benefit Busters is on again tomorrow at 9pm. The first episode of Series 1 of Benefit Busters spreaded a lot of anger of Princess Emma of Sheffield in her mansion and A4e: the largest New Deal Provider. New Deal Scandal will review the preview clips of Episode 2 of Benefit Busters – this show could [...]
["Benefit Busters: Episode 2 Preview"] | 33 Comments!Interesting links on A4e Doncaster featured Benefit Busters Series 1, Episode 1 that was shown on Channel 4 last Thursday night.
["Benefit Busters Episode 1"] | 2 Comments!So it has been a hot topic in the recent week…. Benefit Busters at A4e Doncaster. I have already expressed disappointment regarding the low outcome by A4e the largest welfare provider in the UK that also has business interests overseas. Since the Benefit Busters show, I have been reviewing feedback across the internet. The comments [...]
["A4e Benefit Busters Single Mums Review"] | 15 Comments!As we all might be aware that the Channel 4 Benefit Busters show was designed for publicity for A4e rather than a fair insight in to the benefit system. Thursday’s (20th August) show which featured the training provider Action for Employment (otherwise known as A4e) and their star tutor/trainer/sales person/staff member Hayley Taylor (which I [...]
["A4e Benefit Busters: why A4e isn't the answer for welfare"] | 13 Comments!New Deal Scandal have heard a lot of concern in the ways that the Department for Work and Pensions processes our private and confidential information including thousands of DWP staff not being aware of or receiving training on proper information handling. The Information Commissioner has ruled that there is no wrong doing in the practices [...]
["Information Commissioner: Jobcentre Plus sending sensitive information to Royal Mail is OK"] | No Comments: Be the first!New Deal Scandal can reveal that the Department for Work and Pensions has no intention for making any prosecutions for prime contractors deliberately defrauding the system. The Department for Work and Pensions currently has no plans of stopping Flexible New Deal contracts being awarded to prime contractors who have previously defrauded the system on numerous [...]
["No prosecutions for New Deal Fraud"] | 3 Comments!Just a brief overall of recent content on ”New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform” blog. This might be easier to some then using WordPress pages as some sticky posts make normal ones difficult to see sometimes.
["New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform: network snippet"] | No Comments: Be the first!New Deal Scandal is back! Against the will of Action for Employment (a4e) we are not going away. A4e may have successfully taken down watchingA4e as Webs (previously freewebs) bowed to the pressure but WordPress had the sense and courtesy to consult with me first before taking removal action. I proved to WordPress that this [...]
["New Deal Scandal: A4e 1 – Bloggers 1"] | 2 Comments!The DWP Survey 2009, states that 26% of employees taking the survey (71% of the total workforce) answered “not sure” to the following question: “Do you possess a Level 2 qualification (NVQ, BTEC, 5 GCSEs Grade A-C, or equivalent) or above?“. That is 18,982 employees not sure about their own qualifications.
["26% of DWP employees do not know if they have qualifications"] | 7 Comments!The latest statistics show that 67% of DWP employees would like to still work at DWP in 12 months time – 33% said they didn’t wish to. 48,914 would still like to work for the Department for Work and Pensions in a years time while 24,092 stated that they would not like to.
["1 in 3 DWP employees don't want to stay another year"] | No Comments: Be the first!If the answer is yes, then you should think again! Details published from DWP themselves from the DWP Survey 2009 – a survey of 73,006 people (71%) – a response of under 3 in 4 members of staff, show some worrying statistics. Is your data safe?
["Do you trust the Department for Work and Pensions with your data?"] | 3 Comments!Just a brief overall of recent content on ”New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform” and “Ipswich Unemployed Action” blogs. This might be easier to some then using WordPress pages as some sticky posts make normal ones difficult to see sometimes.
["New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform: network snippet"] | No Comments: Be the first!As a Jobseekers Allowance claimant myself (when my claim hasn’t been stopped or suspended for trivial reasons such as not attending an interview they never told me about) I am not surprised that the National Audit Office (NAO) has reported a £1.2 billion under spend last year. To stick this figure into prospective (remember it [...]
["£1.2 billion DWP Fraud: DWP Underspend, Claimants struggle"] | 5 Comments!205 laptops lost or stolen full of confidential information. Apparently the figures are as follows 2004 – 75 Laptops 2005 – 46 Laptops 2006 – 28 Laptops 2007 – 15 Laptops 2008 – 41 Laptops £266,000 spent on entertainment. 2003-04 £79,000 (this particular figure is apparently just a estimate) 2004-05 £28,000 2005-06 £43,000 2006-07 £106,000 [...]
["What the DWP doesn't want you to know…"] | 7 Comments!You may have heard about assaults on Jobcentre Plus staff in the news, however, these figures are largely distorted. They refer to Incident Cases and not solely due to physical assault – which we will explain later. Six months ago Jobcentre Plus boasted over 1,600 security guards costing the taxpayer over £40 million a year. [...]
["Jobcentre Plus: security and assaults"] | 18 Comments!We can reveal that on the 20th April 2009, Mr Neil Watson the Finance Director for Action 4 Employment resigned from a4e Ltd as a director.
["a4e New Deal: Finance Director resigned"] | 5 Comments!Well, not any more…
["Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell MP"] | No Comments: Be the first!The Independent Watchdog for the Department for Work & Pensions We hope you’ll find us a useful resource in helping to recognize, combat and raise awareness of abuse of power involving the UK government’s largest department, a department dependent upon a sea of civil and judicial servants, we repeatedly find not doing their job properly. [...]
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