I was reading a great article on Welfare Reform (the Welfare Reform Bill 2009) however I greatly disagreed with the points made in the article so I decided to quote sections of it and comment! The Welfare Reform Bill is to be a tough piece of legislation that will compel people in meeting with their [...]
["Welfare Reform: Criticism"] | 18 Comments!Well, not any more…
["Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell MP"] | No Comments: Be the first!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 farAll New Deal training providers, past and present should be subject to an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. The fraud investigation can’t be conducted by the Department for Work and Pensions as they also fall under the suspicion of fraudulent activity and other acts of unlawful misconduct and requires an outside independent investigation.
["New Deal should be subjected to a Serious Fraud Office inquiry"] | 2 Comments!As from today the New Deal Scandal network will be also promoting the abolishment of the Jobseekers Agreement (JSAg), an proposed act of Welfare Reform
["Abolish the Jobseekers Agreement"] | 21 Comments!As the entire UK goes crazy with shocking new plans of changing welfare in the country, New Deal Scandal reveals that the worse is still to come! You thought the Welfare Reform Bill was bad? Read on…
["Welfare Reform Bill: There is more to come…"] | 2 Comments!What is with the unemployment system? “Assaults” on staff are to be dealt with by benefit sanctions and not by police. Awkward customers are to be removed from the Jobcentre Plus office by police after being held by security. Assaults are crimes, it is a police matter. Exceeding your time slot or talking back to [...]
["Jobseekers Future: inverted"] | 10 Comments!Jobseekers Allowance: the Scandal (A MUST READ FOR ALL JOBSEEKERS) How many scandals can there possibly be?! Its becoming crazy now…
["Jobseekers Allowance Scandal"] | 33 Comments!If you are seeking work and claiming Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) you would have heard about the Jobseekers Act 1995 however you are probably more familiar with it being written and acknowledged as the Jobseekers Act 1995 (as amended). What does this mean? Read on for a brief explanation on the law that applies to you.
["Jobseekers Act 1995 (as amended)"] | 36 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!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 can reveal that the new Jobcentre Plus CEO, Darra Singh OBE, was one of the masterminds behind a new National Service system where in particular young unemployed people are to be forced to “volunteer” or lose their benefits.
["New Jobcentre Plus Chief Executive is pro compulsory national volunteering"] | 5 Comments!So Welfare Reforms plans are out and so is Flexible New Deal… they plan to make us work for below that National Minimum Wage; but surely aren’t we getting worked up about nothing?
["Work for your Benefit: aren't we getting a little bit worked up over nothing?"] | 3 Comments!For a 3 part documentary called “Benefit Busters” two episodes will feature A4e. One episode that was shown on the 20th August 2009 was at A4e Doncaster focusing on lone parents whilst the other episode coming up next week will be at A4e Hull focusing on the unemployed. At A4e Doncaster, Hayley Taylor co-ordinates a [...]
["A4e Benefit Busters"] | 9 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!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!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!I think it comes a good time to review the progress, successes and failures of the New Deal Scandal site. New Deal Scandal is a blog designed to expose the Governments New Deal scheme, the New Deal prime contractors and New Deal subcontractors defrauding the system, the Flexible New Deal, Welfare Reform and the Government’s [...]
["Flexible New Deal | New Deal Scandal Review"] | 5 Comments!As wordpress kept messing up, the third time… I given up on the introduction paragraph. This is a New Deal Scandal exclusive!
["DWP Code Cracked"] | No Comments: Be the first!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!New Deal Scandal can reveal that not only does Jobcentre Plus promote illegal jobs but Department for Work and Pensions actually creates unlawful discriminative employment vacancies.
["Jobcentre Plus promotes illegal job vacancies"] | 30 Comments!So, with Flexible New Deal jobseekers are meant to have the following privileges: “Customer Choice“: ability to (in some areas) choose provider Receiving a statement: stating expectations, how the provider is paid and how they can complain to the Ombudsman Independent Ombudsman: as a last resort to complain to Flexible New Deal providers get the [...]
["Where is the Flexible New Deal Ombudsman?"] | 7 Comments!Taken from Watching A4e’s Two Memoranda article: A4e says that it has introduced a procedure whereby 50% of all claims are routinely checked by an independent team which phones the employer to verify that the client is working there, and can check with the Jobcentre that the client is off benefit. Whats the point of getting [...]
["A4e only checks half of claims before claiming job outcomes"] | 10 Comments!New Deal Scandal exposes the scam that is the Labour Market System (LMS) or simply put the pool of jobs Employment Officers, New Deal Personal Advisers and Jobseeker Direct staff give to jobseekers as Jobseeker Directions and those on the jobpoints and the direct gov and jobcentre plus websites.
["Jobcentre Plus Labour Market System"] | 42 Comments!SAVE DLA AND ALL DISABILITY BENEFITS Tony Greenstein Having already abolished Incapacity Benefit, New Labour has now made it clear that it wants to scrap ALL disability benefits. On July 14th New Labour published a Green Paper, Shaping the Future of Care. Reading through the spin, the message is clear. Disability Living Allowance is ‘inefficient’ [...]
["Save Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance"] | 2 Comments!How much do you think Jobcentre Plus’ failed job system costs per year to run? £1 million? £5 million? £10 million? No… the Labour Market System (LMS) costs £39, 663, 300 per year to run. The Department for Work and Pensions didn’t want to disclose the initial setup costs of the Labour Market System under [...]
["Welfare Reform: Jobcentre Plus needs to scrap its £40m per year Labour Market System"] | 8 Comments!Flexible New Deal Scandal has received details of a tip off that someone with serious mental health issues is being made to attend Flexible New Deal at YMCA Training’s Dencora House this week.
["Flexible New Deal: TNG & YMCA Training approve someone with serious mental health issues to Dencora House"] | 8 Comments!You decide. Here is a list of legislation DWP has to deal with… EC TREATIES & REGULATIONS UK Declaration on meaning of “nationals” for EC purposes EC Treaty (Treaty of Rome) (extracts) Treaty on European Union (Maastricht) (extracts) Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1408/71 (migrant workers) Council Regulation (EEC) No. 574/72 (implementing procedures) Council Regulation (EEC) [...]
["Too much legislation for DWP and Jobcentre Plus?"] | No Comments: Be the first!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 Labour POLICY requirements: Are they bullshit or not? We have recently received a very long post from “Cocheese” which in order to give it justice I have decided to give it a new post! I have linked this to the original comment page…
["New Labour POLICY requirements: Are they bullshit or not?"] | 40 Comments!DWP New Deal 13 week Course, Skills Training Ltd, Hounslow Final Report by Martin Langley to 18/12/09 We have recently received a very long comment from “Martin Langley” which in order to give it justice I have decided to give it a new post! Again, like the “Cocheese” one it is much better than most [...]
["New Deal 13 week Course, Skills Training Ltd, Hounslow"] | 1 Comment so farIt 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, 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!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!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!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!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!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!Jobcentre 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!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 farToday, Flexible New Deal scandal will reveal the extent of sanctions that apply to those who fail to comply to the regulations. These are more increased than the extent of the sanctions available to those on Flexible New Deal Stage 4. The regulations (Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work for Your Benefit Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010) are to [...]
["Workfare: Work for Your Benefit Sanctions exposed"] | 9 Comments!Reed in Partnership has recently been inspected by Ofsted under their ”Provider Led Pathways to Work” contract. Oh dear, Grade 4 (lowest) stamped everywhere. Job Outcome rates? On the compulsory “training” course only 7% found employment. Of that 7% of people, only 15% found sustainable jobs making approx a sustainable job rate of 1.127% (that is [...]
["Reed in Partnership: The final nail?"] | 5 Comments!Why are MP’s okay with the proposed idea of workfare via the planned Work for Your Benefit pilots? You would have thought that more MP’s would have expressed concerns about the direction the country is moving to. Flexible New Deal scandal has today summarised the reasons why MP’s have generally been in favour of this [...]
["Workfare: Why MP’s are ok with it"] | 4 Comments!Flexible New Deal scandal reveals how Work for Your Benefit scheme is unenforceable. An interesting foresight and possible defence of UK Social Security legislation.
["Workfare: Unenforceable"] | 39 Comments!So, does the Government have a point that Work for Your Benefit pilot is a “work placement” and not a “job”? This technicality allows participants to not be paid the National Minimum Wage and to displaced other jobs. Flexible New Deal Scandal investigates…
["Work for Your Benefit: Work Placement or Job?"] | 10 Comments!
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