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those who go on and off of benefits working for their benefits and for the benefit of the local community.
The proposals would see those people in Ipswich who have been through the support of the New Deal and still haven’t found work or people who have a history of going on and off benefits taking part in full time community activity in return for their benefits. This will give people work experience that employers look for and will help flush out the people who are abusing the
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Work For Benefit: The New Helots. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
do not manage or pay your benefit
d) subcontractors have no legal basis of vetting people to see their entitlement.
Anyone who has their benefits axed or a sanction for such purposes should sue the company involved.
To clear up confusion – anyone be it person or company has the right to report anyone who isn’t entitled to claim benefit who are claiming benefit because everyone has the right to report crime and the crime here would be benefit fraud.
However, to claim
Benefit Cheats? Rewarding Grasses? « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
a week. The term “benefit thief” is itself derogatory and discriminatory. It implies that all benefit claimants are potential or actual thieves.
Tony Greenstein
Secretary, Brighton & Hove Unemployed Workers Centre
(Guardian 15.2.10)
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Strong job market = high benefits
Poor job market = low benefits
This will be nonsense anyway – who will pay for benefits?
Council tax and business rate payers Or from the budget as is now?
I can’t see there being a central amount of money budgeting for benefits where councils can apply for the amounts they want; this means it be central Government dictating benefit rate levels with the Council replacing Jobcentre Plus?
Comment by Flexible New Deal — January
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SAVE DLA AND ALL DISABILITY BENEFITS. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
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. DLA is ‘inefficient’ ‘poorly targeted’ [because it’s not means tested!] and therefore has to go towards paying for a new national care service. DLA is the best Benefit there is. If
Real Benefit Levels. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
When unemployment benefit started in 1912 it was 7 shillings a week – about 22% of average male earnings in manufacturing. The percentage fluctuated over the succeeding decades, but by 1979 the benefit rate was still about 21% of average earnings (manual and non-manual, male and female). By 2008, however, as a result of the policy of tying benefits to the price index while real earnings increased, the renamed jobseeker’s allowance had fallen to an all-time low of 10.5%
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Allowance and Cut in Housing Benefit.
Filed under: Atttendance Allowance , Government , Welfare State — Tags: Attendance Allowance , Housing Benefit — Andrew Coates @ 8:43 am
Brighton & Hove UNEMPLOYED WORKERS CENTRE 4 Crestway Parade, The Crestway, Brighton BN1 7BL ( & 01273-540717
PRESS RELEASE:
Unemployed Centre Condemns Proposals to Abolish Attendance Allowance & Disability Living Allowance and Cut Housing Benefit .
Brighton & Hove
Work for Your Benefit: What it Will Mean. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
travel is to get people on benefits to ‘sing for their supper’. This is very worrying. From our own experience at Community Links we think it simply will not work. It will push more people off benefits, forced to fend for themselves, possibly by doing cash-in-hand work. (See previous blog entries )
It’s not just us saying it … it’s in their own research. A bit more evidence based policy making please.
We, by contrast, are opposed to all Work for Your benefits schemes.
Real Benefit Levels. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
When unemployment benefit started in 1912 it was 7 shillings a week – about 22% of average male earnings in manufacturing. The percentage fluctuated over the succeeding decades, but by 1979 the benefit rate was still about 21% of average earnings (manual and non-manual, male and female). By 2008, however, as a result of the policy of tying benefits to the price index while real earnings increased, the renamed jobseeker’s allowance had fallen to an all-time low of 10.5%
Forced Labour in Suffolk. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
still be working for your benefits?
A Training Allowance is a benefit but not an unemployment benefit as those who are in receipt of it are classified as “in training”.
Comment by Flexible New Deal — March 12, 2010 @ 11:01 am
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“A technical aspect I am interested in is… If they replace Jobseekers Allowance with an Training Allowance (of same amount) for the Work for your benefit scheme, will you still be working for your benefits?
Work for Benefit: PQQ Level Successful Tenders for Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambrid...
March 24, 2010
Work for Benefit: PQQ Level Successful Tenders for Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire.
Filed under: Suffolk , Unemployment , Workfare — Tags: Work For Benefit — Andrew Coates @ 3:59 pm
Norfolk, Cambridgeshire & Suffolk
The information below identifies the suppliers who have been successful at PQQ stage of the Work for Your Benefit competition and the Contract Package Areas they have been invited to tender in.
1 – A4E
2 –
Bypass Norwich! Local benefit claimants must read « Ipswich Unemployed...
Bypass Norwich! Local benefit claimants must read
Filed under: DWP , Flexible New Deal , Ipswich , New Deal , Suffolk , Unemployment , Welfare State , jobseekers allowance — Tags: benefit Delay Scandal — Flexible New Deal @ 11:24 am
Bypass the benefit Delay Scandal
Jobcentre Plus gets correspondence sent to the below published address for the Suffolk (?) area:
Bury St Edmunds BDC
Thorpe Road
Norwich
NR99 1AD
It actually then gets redirected to:
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Suffolk unemployment benefit claimants DOUBLE « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
of people claiming the benefit has more than doubled to 28,924, an increase from 12,897 last year.
The figures, released by the Office for National Statistics, reveal that in the East of England there are 187,000 people unemployed – an increase of 12,000 in the past three months.
Evening Star
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Work for Benefit. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
October 5, 2009
Work for Benefit.
Filed under: Campaigns for Unemployed , David Freud , Workfare — Tags: Workfare — Andrew Coates @ 10:36 am
This is not so widely reported,
“The proposals also build on the government’s “work for your Benefit” scheme, forcing long-term unemployed to engage in community work programmes to “earn” Benefits.
Participation in community work will be for one year, at the end of which
Unjustly Imprisoned Claimants. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
having to repay back the benefit in doubt.
This “doubt” would mean out of further benefits paying back at something silly of £5 per week.
Remember everyone who has committed benefit fraud have the right to attempt to claim benefits again.
Comment by Flexible New Deal — November 15, 2009 @ 2:01 pm
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why not bar a person done for benefit fraud from claiming benefit until the money is paid back beside which the advert for benefit
Ipswich Unemployed Action.
on pain of suspension of benefits. This causes immense stress for people who are the victims of anonymous informants.
To target people who are already vulnerable should be a clear warning that for the unemployed New Labour is no better than the Tory opposition. Most so-called benefit fraud arises from the fact that it is impossible, for any length of time, for a person to survive on £64.30 a week. The term “benefit thief” is itself derogatory and discriminatory. It implies
About Ipswich Unemployed Action. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
Unemployed.
Raise our Benefits to a living level.
We want the minimum wage for any ‘voluntary’ work they make us do.
There should be an independent appeal and monitoring system – open to all – for anyone on the ‘New Deal’. Not the present shambles,
We want real training, not the YMCA etc sham.
Above all we want to be treated as human beings – not things the DWP and Government Ministers can claim rights over. We should have rights, and we want them now!
And
Chris Mole, Ispwich MP: Work for Up to £50.95/£64.30 Quid a Week! « ...
those who go on and off of benefits working for their benefits and for the benefit of the local community.
The proposals would see those people in Ipswich who have been through the support of the New Deal and still haven’t found work or people who have a history of going on and off benefits taking part in full time community activity in return for their benefits. This will give people work experience that employers look for and will help flush out the people who are abusing the
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the cycle of generational benefits claiming has maintained and even risen. There are families on social housing estates that have not had a working person in the household for generations. This simply is not sustainable. If able bodied people are encouraged to do some voluntary work for a couple of days a week in their communities to earn their benefits and gain skills then how is that bad? this is something that the Tories will probably want to bring in.
Comment by Tim —
New Deal final chance: Jobcentre forces Jobseekers on to New Deal « Ip...
on New Deal. You keep your benefits while doing Work Trial.
Volunteering: Keep your benefits while doing work for the local community. Work Trial would be better.
5. Reasons why not to go on New Deal (if all the above fail)
Numerous reasons exist for not going on New Deal VSO courses such as Dencora House in Ipswich.
The “loop hole” here is:
“If you are claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, and you are aged 18 to 24, you must take part in New Deal for young people to carry
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comes to giving any form of benefit back they like putting measures in place to prevent people applying for them.
The relevance between MP expenses and Jobseekers Allowance is Parliament is doing its best to stop the poor getting benefits yet well paid MP’s took advantage (until when they were recently rumbled) of the no caps MP allowances benefit system. Why were the poor subsidising their massive unrequired benefits?
Why does the Government love the private sector so much?
Draconian Testing Regime. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
is to replace the sickness benefits paid to those who are to ill or disabled to work. In the article below, the web site benefits and Work looks at the disquiet which is gradually emerging over the way claimants are tested by the DWP to find out whether they are fit for work, and thus not eligible for sickness benefits. The new system has proved especially problematical as it operates on a one size fits all computer programe, which is unable to take into account the different ways illness
Reed in Partnership. What Kind of Partners for the Unemployed? « Ipsw...
anyone claiming unemployment benefits (or those who have previously). Jobcentre Plus could abuse such legislation on behalf of the provider (as they work in partnership).
Comment by Flexible New Deal — January 11, 2010 @ 9:28 pm
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A4e subcontract to Reed in Partnership. In Ipswich they are based at Crown House.
Comment by Flexible New Deal — January 13, 2010 @ 4:00 pm
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Please see a recent local job advert:
New Deal Sanctions Exposed « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
back in to work off benefits. You have also heard about how poorly New Deal participants are treated and perhaps you have your own experiences to back up this, but Ipswich Unemployed Action can reveal that over 679,820 sanctions have been awarded to lucky New Deal participants since the year 2000.
Whether the Government likes to admit this or not, the figures are an alarmingly high figure (equates to approx 84,977 sanctions per year ) which probably suggest why the Government has
Workfare (Forced Labour) to be Piloted in Suffolk (and elsewhere). « ...
— Tags: Work for Your Benefit , Workfare — Andrew Coates @ 11:44 am
Work for Your Benefits (here )
Work for Your Benefit (WfYB) pilots were a key part of the Green Paper “No one written off: reforming welfare to reform responsibility” published in July 2008 and the response “Raising expectations and increasing support: reforming welfare for the future” published in December 2008.
The Work for Your Benefit programme will consist of full-time (30 hours a
73% of employers admit to discriminating against the disabled and older ages...
give people on Incapacity Benefit (now Employment and Support Allowance) and older people, the opportunity to return to employment.
The article by Health Insurance Magazine , flipped this around saying that 27% of employers would still employ those on incapacity Benefit and older people, and give them the opportunity in the economic recession of returning back to the workplace. This has angered many Incapacity Benefit claimants.
Over a quarter (27%) of employers say they would
New Deal: The TRUTH Exposed! « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
reasons resulting in loss of Benefits and sanctions imposed … the list goes on.
So why is the New Deal not helping people? We have an Government document which describes the main reasons for the New Deal – and this document isn’t leaked – readily available just under publicised.
Why the New Deal?
The reasons for the New Deal are to:
Reduce Benefit Fraud – If Jobseekers aren’t available in the week for work they aren’t able to defraud
Tories to Make Things Worse for Unemployed. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
allowance, reducing their benefits by £25 a week. Work ‘experience’ and ‘training’ to be compulsory after 6 months. The core elements of the Tory package involve putting everyone on a single out-of-work benefit, including the stock of 2.6m incapacity benefit claimants and lone parents. The back-to-work programme will largely be run by voluntary groups and private sector companies.
I woke up – briefly – around five-thirty this morning. Put the radio
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Unemployed FORCED to take Drug Tests. « Ipswich Unemployed Action.
then sanction their benefit and that him/her would be seeking legal advise on this
also take into consideration that the ndpa is scuppered as the person didnt refuse the test wonder what would happen if someone who does do drugs did the test which was positive and refused the job would the ndpa sanction their benefit then? would it be a legal sanction?
Comment by ALLAN JOHNSTONE — October 15, 2009 @ 3:02 pm
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Allan Johnstone I think that the person
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