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• in Politics
  View of Benefits Claimants Tainted by Constant Media Coverage of Thieves
  An insight into the media's coverage of benefit fraud affecting some of the most vulnerable people in society.
  by staz04 / on Apr 16, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “welfare reform”

 

• Mencap Sponsor Workfare Award At Poverty Pimp Love In

  
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  Decent people everywhere will be appalled to learn that the charity Mencap recently sponsored an award at the first ever ERSA Employability Awards. ERSA are the trade body who were formed in 2005 to lie on behalf of the money grabbing welfare-to-work industry .  They represent the companies such as A4e and G4S who ...
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• This Is What Austerity Looks Like – First Suicide Due To Bedroom Tax Reported

  
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  The welfare reform death toll has risen by one more tragic victim the Sunday People is reporting .  The papers says: Ten days ago Stephanie Bottrill sat in the redbrick terrace house which had been home for 18 years to write notes to her loved ones, the Sunday People reports . She ripped the pages from a ...
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• The Independent View: Universal Credit..will it work?

  
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  When the first Universal Credit (UC) pilot was launched in Ashton-under-Lyne last week, much attention was paid to the practicalities of the new benefit, from the timetable to the IT system, the challenge of online claims to the problems with monthly payments. A new report published this week by Child Poverty Action ...
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• Iain Duncan Smith Not A Lying Bastard Claims DWP

  
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  The DWP have taken to twitter in a crude attempt to defend themselves from the accusation that Iain Duncan Smith has been misusing statistics. Showing their utter contempt for the comments made by Andrew Dilnot, the head of the UK Statistics Authority, they are clearly attempting to show that Iain Duncan Smith was ...
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• Iain Duncan Smith Is A Lying Bastard – It’s Official Says UK Statistics Boss

  
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  A post on the Guardian Politics blog reveals that the UK Statistics Authority have accused Iain Duncan Smith of misusing statistics. In response to a letter from the TUC, the head of body which oversees official statistics, claims : “We have concluded that the statement attributed to the Secretary of State for ...
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• The £300 A Day Youth Unemployment Conference Where Unemployed People Aren’t Welcome

  
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  A youth employment conference is taking place in London today where assorted workfare sharks and poverty pimps will be discussing the latest ways exploit young unemployed people whilst fleecing the tax payer. Spokespeople from the welfare to work sector will be out in force all day pretending that they can fix ...
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• Doctors Warn of The Hidden Costs of Welfare Reform

  
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  A letter written by Scottish Ministers to Iain Duncan Smith reveals one of the often overlooked consequences of the savage cuts to social security. Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Health Secretary Alex Neil claim that the brutally flawed Work Capability Assessment used to determine eligibility for ...
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• 60% Of Claimants To Be Worse Off Under Universal Credit Says Child Poverty Charity

  
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  A report released this week shows that Iain Duncan Smith’s bodged attempts at welfare reform will see the incomes of the working poor, disabled people and parents savaged. Universal Credit is to be gradually introduced over the next four years and will replace most of the main in and out of work benefits.  DWP ...
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• Fun Online Polls: Welfare reform & Global Warming/Cooling

  
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  The responses to last weeks Fun Online Poll were as follows : Whats the total marginal withdrawal rate if you claim Universal Credit and work more than 30 hours a week? 65% - 9% 76% once you include PAYE - 9% 79% if you include Employers NIC as well - 9% About 85% if you include Council Tax Benefit withdrawal ...
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• Benefit Bullshitting Exposed By Daily Mail’s Workshy Map

  
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  Yesterday’s Daily Mail Workshy map blows apart the benefit bullshitting of  the right wing press, despite their best efforts to smear hundred of thousands of sick and disabled people as criminals. The map is based on recent figures detailing the outcomes of Incapacity Benefit re-assessments.  This is the crude ...
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• Number of Claimants On New Sickness Benefit At All Time High Boasts Mark Hoban

  
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  It is a tribute to the hard campaigning carried out by disabled people, benefit claimants and supporters that the Government are now boasting that less people are being found ‘fit for work’ than at any point since the notorious Work Capability Assessment (WCA) began. A revealing press release from the DWP makes ...
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• Universal Credit and Benefit Sanctions, What Every PCS Member Urgently Needs To Know

  
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  Universal Credit may have been launched with a whimper – at just one Jobcentre affecting a handful of claimants – but unless urgent action is taken then it will prove devastating for low paid workers at the DWP, HMRC and elsewhere within both the public and private sectors. Universal Credit is not just an attack ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Right To Live And The Right To Die - #BADD2013

  
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  There are two bills scheduled for debate in the House of Lords in the near future, at first glance they may seem completely unrelated, but in fact are inextricably interlinked - social care and assisted dying. The vast majority of rules and regulations which govern the lives of disabled people are legislated for ...
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• How Universal Credit Will Incentivise Rent Debt

  
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  A perverse incentive in the Universal Credit pilot scheme has already emerged which will mean that social housing tenants who go into rent arrears will be able to have the housing element of the new benefit sent direct to their landlord. Universal Credit will feature Direct Payments, meaning that council or housing ...
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• Bespoke Austerity

  
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  ‘Cut one’s coat to suit one’s cloth’. This is the sort of kitchen-table budgetary advice that is often doled out to those who find themselves in a financial bind. When it comes to a debate about the wisdom or otherwise of austerity of the kind currently practised in peripheral Europe, it seems odd that serious ...
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• Man Jailed After Comments Made In Atos Assessment

  
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  A Nottingham man has now been held in custody for two weeks after he was accused of “threatening behaviour” due to comments he allegedly made during his Atos benefits assessment. Steve Topley is a 49 year old father with multiple serious health problems who was required to attend a Work Capability Assessment ...
  3 weeks ago

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