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!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!So, 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for the content having jobs so might imply success, these people haven’t tested them, and many of the tips are outdated or focused for a different country (i.e. USA, Australia etc.)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!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 reveal that Jobseekers on average are spending up to a fifth (20%) of their benefit seeking employment in the recession. Jobseekers Allowance is the minimum the law says you need to live on. This doesn’t include costs of seeking employment. TUC states this should be increased to £75 per week. Jobseekers [...]
["Jobseekers in Recession spend up to 20% of their benefit seeking employment"] | 4 Comments!It is official – the Government has succeeded with its campaign against bullying genuine claimants from claiming benefits they are legally entitled to. In a survey of the 100 most annoying things for 2008, benefit scroungers bet the Credit Crunch and Gordon Brown to the top spot.
["Benefit scroungers are Britains most annoying pet hate"] | 12 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!For over a decade the Government has seen to want to throw money at solving problems such as unemployment, which doesn’t work. I don’t doubt for one second that the New Deal created loads of new jobs and helped people find employment. Sadly though these jobs were mostly for training providers to help deliver the [...]
["How the Government can solve Unemployment for FREE!"] | 19 Comments!Unfair charges We have all heard about the Jobseekers Allowance Scandal, how LHA rates in most areas have fell dramatically while the rent prices have not decreased by so much and now today, we at New Deal Scandal expose the unfair charges that estate agents such as JSM Property (who were lucky to be featured, [...]
["Housing Poverty: action required now!"] | 1 Comment so farSo you are unemployed, about to make a claim for Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) or have made a new claim for Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) however not attended an New Jobseeker Interview (NJI) yet. This article explains what you need to know about claiming Jobseekers Allowance. You wouldn’t have thought that the Jobseekers Agreement (JSAg) would be [...]
["How to negotiate a Jobseekers Agreement"] | 3 Comments!I can’t stress enough how great it is to have a job which is permanent and secured Tonight I wish to raise the major unemployment issue: the System’s Cherry Pick or Park approach. Regardless of being in a recession or not, there are two distinct groups of unemployed people that are jobseekers who are on [...]
["Unemployed: Temporary or Parked?"] | 2 Comments!The Department for Work and Pensions has been investigating Action 4 Employment and at least 2 other undisclosed training providers for fraud over the last 13 months – this comes after Maatwerk had their contract terminated for fraud. This means that even though they weren’t restricted or blacklisted from bidding for Flexible New Deal contracts: [...]
["A4e to lose Flexible New Deal contract for fraud: other training providers also under investigation"] | 20 Comments!£187,500 This is the amount it cost Taxpayers to get a single Jobseeker of the dole. This is the bombshell that stuck the final nail in the coffin of New Deal. A scheme setup by Gordon Brown for New Labour aiming to get less people claiming unemployment benefits and stop living a “life on benefits” [...]
["£187,500: how much it cost Taxpayers to get a Jobseeker off the dole"] | 11 Comments!
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