A Freedom of Information request states: I can confirm that from 1st April 2006 until 4th January 2010, one Welfare to Work Provider in Merseyside has had to pay back monies to DWP as a consequence of fraud. The overpayment was £146 and was the result of fraud by an individual employee of the company. [...]
["Merseyside "Welfare to Work" provider pays back £146 overpayment: employee fraud"] | 1 Comment so farNew 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!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!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!New Deal Scandal can reveal that as of the end of July 2009 there are 4 ongoing fraud investigations regarding New Deal and 1 regarding Pathways to Work.
["New Deal Fraud: 4 outstanding fraud investigations"] | No Comments: Be the first!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!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!New Deal Scandal recently reported that New Deal Provider Reed in Partnership was under investigation for multi-million pound fraud in 2001; we now can disclose that just two years later the Department for Work and Pensions was involved in a multi agency investigation of a fraud estimated at £3 million involving them finding jobs for [...]
["Reed in Partnership and the £3 million illegal immigrant fraud"] | 6 Comments!Many New Deal providers are using a whole range of fraudulent techniques to receive money unlawfully from the Government. The Government generally isn’t interested in knowing about these techniques, they only recognise the fraud that is forging employer signatures.
["New Deal fraud: the techniques used to rip off the taxpayer"] | 4 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!New Deal Scandal can reveal that there were 1,869 allegations of fraud made against New Deal providers within the first 5 years – 15% of these allegations (or roughly 1 in 6) resulted in full fraud investigations being carried out.
["1,869 fraud tip offs in the first half of New Deal"] | No Comments: Be the first!Evidence from 2003 has been uncovered showing information on fraud investigations of New Deal in the first 5 years of New Deal. You may have heard about cases regarding companies such as A4e, Maatwerk and Working Links being investigated for fraud, however, official Parliament documents show that up until winter 2002 there was over 278 [...]
["New Deal Fraud: Over 278 full fraud investigations"] | 3 Comments!Former Action 4 Employment (A4e) employee Elizabeth Orsman has been jailed for fraud with a total value of £15,833.
["New Deal fraud: A4e employee jailed for fraud"] | 7 Comments!Both Action 4 Employment and Working Links publicly release a statement on the Channel 4 News report broadcast on the 30th June 2009, dated 28/06/2009 (A4e) and 29/06/2009 (Working Links) up to 2 days before the public were aware of their fraudulent activities.
["New Deal Fraud: A4e and Working Links response"] | 1 Comment so farAction for Employment founder and chairperson Emma Harrison discussion regarding scams: with video!
["a4e fraud: Emma Harrison speaks on scams"] | 3 Comments!The illegal act of: Forcing the New Deal participant to sign a disclaimer giving them permission to contact any future employers, by threatening dismissal if they decline (see “exiting” fraud technique) Contacting the participant’s New Deal Personal Adviser enquiring if they have found employment and with what employer. (NDPA’s are only too happy to disclose [...]
["New Deal fraud technique: “leeching”"] | 2 Comments!The illegal act of: Bidding for a contract to a high specification in order to win the contract (this becomes part of the New Deal contract outlined in Part 3 (“The services”), Section 3 (“Provider obligations”) subsections 3.1.1 and 3.1.5, Schedule 2 (and applicable Annexes) and other applicable sections), Or Failing to follow Provider Guidance [...]
["New Deal fraud technique: “misrepresentation”"] | 1 Comment so farThe illegal act of: Acknowledging that regardless of the actual period of time the New Deal participant spends on the course they will get the full amount for the entire 13 weeks, unless they exceed their absence limit where they wont Short listing those who appear not to be able to make the entire 13 [...]
["New Deal fraud technique: “exiting”"] | 9 Comments!This potentially fraudulent act involves: Bullying the client into signing… Blank documents or not filled in forms, Or Incomplete (but partially filled in) forms Giving the reason as to “save time”, “I will complete the rest later…” and this is typically enforced by inadequate time for the paperwork to reasonably be completed (such as someone [...]
["New Deal fraud technique: "pre-signing""] | 2 Comments!The illegal act of: Filling in a document with pencil Getting the client to sign (either in pencil or pen) Later go over the pencil lines in pen to make a few modifications or rewriting the entire agreement Erase the pencil lines (if client signs with pencil go over it with a pen first) Or [...]
["New Deal fraud technique: “penciling”"] | 2 Comments!The illegal forging act of: Creating a photocopy of a document with the signature you wish to use (thus to prevent marks created from the top of the pen making an impression on the original sheet which enables detection of fraud easier) Placing the photocopy against a window (hence where the name comes from) or [...]
["New Deal fraud technique: "windowing""] | 3 Comments!Since Monday, in half the country there will be no new referrals to New Deal. This could be due to implementing the Flexible New Deal or due to revelations of New Deal fraud we recently reported, as the Flexible New Deal (if contracts are signed on time) are not due to begin until October allowing [...]
["New Deal ends in half of Great Britain"] | 1 Comment so farAt only 19:55 BST the record number of unique visitors on this blog today has beaten the previous record a week ago (22nd June 2009) by 2 times and has tripled the daily average number of unique visitors. It seems everyone is very interested in the A4E fraud so we will bring more revelations on [...]
["New Deal Scandal record hits DOUBLE on news of A4e Fraud"] | 6 Comments!Several years ago Reed in Partnership were investigated over 13 employees who has forged placements for those who had signed off to gain bonuses and also used the Employment Services data of New Deal candidates that found work outside of Reed to top up missed targets, totalling an expected multi-million pound fraud. This was back [...]
["New Deal fraud investigation: Reed in Partnership"] | 1 Comment so far
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