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Forced Labour (WP/WF/WCA), Welfare, Entitlements and General

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AT LEAST 100k a year hit by highest-level benefit sanctions
 
Draft Deregulation Bill: Government moves to shut down judicial supervision and criticism of DWP-Atos decision making

Work Test Whistleblower: Are Atos About To Drop The WCA Contract?

Workfare is already here. Nobody told the Taxpayers’ Alliance

Force claimants to work for benefits, government urged

‘Work for the Dole’

‘Work for the dole’ is a poor show

New attempt to demean benefit claimants launched by right-wing loonies

Working and workless households 2013 statistics – with Inclusion’s focus on lone parent employment rates

Result of WCA consultations

Food Banks Grow and Grow

DWP has stopped refering desperate people to food banks, claims charity | Political Scrapbook

Attitudes of different generations to the welfare system

‘Poverty porn’? Who benefits from documentaries on Recession Britain?

London Homelessness Soars In First Three Months of Benefit Cap

Why is the Labour Party in bed with a RIGHT-wing thinktank?

Government admits ‘hiding’ benefit cap stats

Why Iain Duncan Smith is no longer a quiet man but a dangerous one | Marina Hyde

Referred to a psychologist - for wanting to record Jobcentre interviews

Growth is an illusion. What we’ve got is a more widely spread falling national average income

What were Iain Duncan Smith’s ‘welfare reforms’ really about? | Sue Marsh

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Universal Credit

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NAO report on Universal Credit

Will Universal Credit ever work? – NAO report

CPAG statement on NAO report on Universal Credit

Universal Credit, “Slight Delay” as Report Dams “Weak Management, Ineffective Control and Poor Governance.”

Making Universal Credit work, and making work pay

Billions To Be Spent On Bullshit - The Sorry Tale Of Universal Credit

Numbers in a twist, Mr Duncan Smith? – Comment – Voices – The Independent

Alistair Darling: I was warned that Universal Credit would be unworkable

The verdict: Universal Credit is a Governmental Disgrace

Duncan Smith can’t avoid the blame for the Universal Credit disaster

Why does truth on Universal Credit emerge only now?

Universal Credit And Zero Hours Contracts - A Car Crash Waiting To Happen

Universal Credit shambles uncovered in new report

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Universal Jobmatch

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Hoban gets his own law WRONG on jobseeker search proof

Hoban gets his own law WRONG on jobseeker search proof 

Nigel

Read It And Weep 10

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RIAW 4, here: RIAW 3, here: RIAW 2, here: RIAW 1, here.*****

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Forced Labour (WP/WF/WCA), Welfare, Entitlements and General

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Timetable of Forthcoming Welfare Benefit Changes

Four stages of deceit
 
Stop Helping Me, Iain

Unemployment and the Work Ethic
 
In All Fairness...

I'm proud of our welfare reforms (Guardian)

Iain Duncan Smith - true to form

Supporting vulnerable people back into society requires time, patience and commitment, not punitive measures

Sanctions: hitting the most vulnerable

Government MUST Tell Public The Truth About Benefits Fraud

Only one problem with the government’s list of top ten benefits fraudsters – it doesn’t exist

Every local council got every bedroom tax decision legally and badly wrong

Most families hit by benefits cap 'have no job or housing options'

Benefit Cap Based On Bare-Faced Lie

Labour to substantially cut benefits bill if it wins power in 2015 (Guardian)

Ed Miliband: We WILL Scrap Hated Bedroom Tax

Three More Remploy Factories To Close

Report Calls For Expansion Of Residential Workfare For Unemployed and Disabled People

Outsourcing Jobcentre Plus - the first steps?

They've got away with it

Work Programme figures - fail!

Work Programme official statistics (GOV.UK)

Desperately spinning
 
STOP PRESS - contradictory figures
 
Number Of Young Jobless Higher Than When Coalition Came To Power

Why Osborne must publish the names of every benefits claimant - and how much we pay them: An incendiary idea to save on our £500m A DAY welfare bill (Daily Mail)

DWP minister Hoban gets JSA amount WRONG - and jobseeking unaffordable

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Universal Credit

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Universal Credit: Roll out from October 2013 (GOV.UK)
 
'Claimant Commitment' sanction threat falls on jobseekers; blundering DWP staff get away with murder

Universal Credit ‘claimant commitment’: no choice, no law, no money – no appeal
 
Universal Credit IT working well claims DWP

Digital By Default Abandoned In Universal Credit Pathfinder Fiasco

Universal Credit … The Farce Continues

Universal Credit Too Risky, Admits Tory Minister 

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Universal Jobmatch

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No Match, Universally

Social Security

Yet More Government Enforced Sex Work On Mandatory Job Seeking Website

Universal Jobmatch Shows This Government’s True Attitude To Online Safety

 
Nigel

Read It And Weep 9

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Forced Labour (WP/WF/WCA), Welfare, Entitlements and General

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Benefit cap 'will encourage people to work'

Benefits cap trial defended by minister
 
New blitz on benefit cheats: Worst offenders will lose payouts for up to THREE years

Welfare Cuts 'Will Widen North-South Divide'

PCS Union opposes conditionality and sanctions targets

PCS opposes conditionality and sanctions targets
 
Homebase criticised over work experience claims
 
TUC analysis highlights reality of unemployment in north east and Cumbria

KARL MCCARTNEY: We are on the side of people who work hard in this country

Government blackmails unemployed into making hopeless job applications

East Ham Labour MP Stephen Timms on why Newham are having another jobs fair
 
Barclaycard offer Work Pairings programme

Sheffield’s jobless shooting for success at A4e job fair

Need your grass cut? Contact Dervock Community Association

Back to Work scheme praised by new Hotel Cristina employee
 
Welfare reforms could lead to large increase in Mansfield rent arrears

Duncan Smith defiant as disabled benefit changes bite
 
More than 30 find work with logistics firm
 
Employment Consultant - Recruitment Consultant, Work Programme, Welfar

Disputing a decision - Universal Credit, PIP, contributory ESA, contribution-based JSA (CAB)

Children Living in Poverty Are Facing a Perfect Storm

Liars of the Left - Angry IDS shreds Labour ‘dishonesty’ over welfare

The Welfare Mission

Labour outlines plan to tie benefits to contribution 
 
Harriet Harman: people feel 'resentful' of benefit claimants 'not pulling their weight'

Working parents exasperated over large families on benefits, says Harman
 
Simon Danczuk MP: 'We can’t ignore the tragedy of people’s potential going to waste'

George Osborne: I'm in tune with country on welfare
 
Troubled families: 'You need to do something bad before you get support'

Labour reconsiders welfare position

Vulnerable Work Programme customers need greater protection, finds new report (CESI)

Work Programme in London (LVSC)

Work Programme evaluation released
 
Crazy situation where you earn more on benefits than you do at work ends NOW

'Welfare reforms are evil,' warns Welsh charity boss 
 
Giving the game away 
 
Why Conservative benefit cuts won't get Britain working

Powers target the ‘cynical minority’

Peering into the black box: innovation and the Work Programme

Work Programme Customer Service Advisor

What about A4e?
 
George Osborne sparks benefits storm over Mick Philpott Derby house fire
 
Don't get mad about the Mail's use of the Philpotts to tarnish the poor – get even

Who cares?

A4e helped me get my life back 

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Universal Credit

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Working universal credit recipients may be forced to move job to work more hours 
 
Universal credit free prescription trial downsized
 
New universal credit system presents the challenge of budgeting
 
Universal Credit's ‘digital by default’ ditched

Mobile rent payments could help landlords curb arrears under Universal Credit

DWP hires Olympics construction director to head up Universal Credit

Universal Credit test launch delayed

Universal Credit award

CLG Select Committee express concern over Universal Credit scheme

Response to CLG Committee report on Universal Credit
 
Government pledges £400k universal credit IT cash 
 
MPs concerned about Universal Credit fraud risk

Universal Credit – An Overview 

Britain's New Tax Reporting System Draws Criticism
 
Benefits reform trial defended

DWP continues to scope Universal Credit budgeting product

Universal credit
 
What is Universal Credit?

Universal Credit Pathfinders delayed

Tax changes to wipe out Christmas bonuses 
 
Universal Credit: Hardly universal, and no credit to anybody

Will Universal Credit be a change for the better? Editor's Eye comment
 
Universal Credit

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Universal Jobmatch

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Are Cookies Strictly Necessary For User On Universal Jobmatch (FOIR)

Request To The Information Commissioner's Office, Regarding Universal Jobmatch Privacy Issues (FOIR)

Universal Jobmatch and the 35 hour per week 35 hours per week undertaking Work Search and Preparation? (FOIR)

The experiences of one jobseeker in using Universal Jobmatch – a worrying sign for Universal Credit?

Universal Jobmatch registration requirement at Ashton-under-Lyne (FOIR)  

Nigel

Read It And Weep 8

*****RIAW 7, here: RIAW 6, here: RIAW 5, here: RIAW 4, here:
RIAW 3, here: RIAW 2, here: RIAW 1, here.*****

2013

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Forced Labour (WP/WF/WCA), Welfare, Entitlements and General

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‘Food stamps’ to be issued in Britain next week to tens of thousands of vulnerable people as part of benefits shake-up (DM)

A portrait of desperate Britain: 4,000 job seekers queue for chance of employment at new shopping centre (DM)

Area Leader in A4E Ltd
 
Sanctions - shocking story

Who cares?

Jobcentre boss denies use of targets for applying sanctions to jobseekers (Guardian)

Targets - what about the Work Programme?

Labour demands action over jobcentre targets (Guardian)
 
Provider ends contract due to ‘unsustainable Work Programme’

Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Workfare Bill

The work programme: experience of different user groups: UNCORRECTED TRANSCRIPT OF ORAL EVIDENCE

Inside Prospects: Work Programme (London)
 
The Does It Work? Programme
 
Work Programme

Only 60 per cent of voluntary sector providers 'intend to stay in the Work Programme'
 
Budget 2013: Hidden agenda to cut Social Security Welfare further

A GOVERNMENT work programme called Ingeus has been helping Bankies get a successful 'response' on the job market

A4e coach Suzanne Green wins top award

Sturgeon: we'll kick out the bedroom tax in an independent Scotland
 
Landlord to end work programme contract

More from the Guardian on targets for sanctions

Jobcentre was set targets for benefit sanctions (Guardian)

Government admits Jobcentres set targets to take away benefits (Guardian)

Iain Duncan Smith denies jobcentres have targets for sanctioning benefits (Guardian)

Work Programme: Report highlights problems (BBC)
 
Second Work Programme evaluation report: Commissioning and supply chain management

Work Programme Evaluation: Procurement, supply chains and implementation of the commissioning model (CESI/DWP)

RR 832 Work Programme Evaluation: Procurement, supply chains and implementation of the commissioning model (DWP)

Work Programme Evaluation: March 2013
 
Five things the government won’t tell you about Workfare

Work Programme – Not Working

The Work Programme isn't working
 
G4S: Some subcontractors on Work Programme not delivering

Lessons from the Work Programme in the reform of rehabilitation services

Work programme fails young people

Work Programme
 
Work Programme target levels “too ambitious”, says select committee

Charities focus on failings of Work Programme (HS)
 
Workfare profiteers A4e and Ingeus targeted 

Work Programme

Thank God for the bishops 

Work Programme 'depends on economy'

Let’s ditch workfare and introduce the Community Allowance instead

Let social landlords run the Work Programme

Guidance Officer - Work Programme

Work Programme – Outcome Statistics (2012) (HMG/DWP)

DWP seeks law change to avoid benefit repayments after Poundland ruling (Independent)

Work programme jobseekers denied compensation for docked benefits
 
Programme 'failing single parents' (E&S)

Report says Work Programme and job centre fail to deliver for single parents

Where next for back-to-work support? (NS)

Opinion: welfare reform and the effect on lone workers
 
JHP Employability – workfare pimps
 
Welfare reform 'black hole' appears outside fish shop
 
Derbyshire welfare-to-work trial rejected by 60 on benefits (BBC)
 
Byrne, L - Work Programme sanctions
 
What is Work Experience?

Boycott Workfare

Final evidence session on the Work Programme (CSC)

Access to Work Programme
 
Work Programme
 
Welsh Affairs Committee - Citizens Advice Cymru; Oxfam Cymru - The Work Programme in Wales

The Work Programme in Wales
 
Work Programme
 
Work and Pensions Committee - Business Disability Forum; de Poel; Timpson; TfL - Work Programme

Pearson - Work Programme
 
Council work experience scheme goes from strength to strength (WSCT)

PRESS RELEASE - Paralympian Helen Arbuthnot motivates jobseekers on the Work Programme to find employment

Ex drug users and alcoholics 'can make the best workers' says Iain Duncan Smith (Telegraph)

Barclays recruit 1,000 more apprentices and launch new youth working programm

Apprenticeships are a 'poor relation' to university, working parents tell CIPD

Unemployed Barrow man lands job due to Evening Mail (NWEM)

Bath success for back-to-work scheme (BC)
 
NFC and Work Program Referral (FOIR)
 
Work Capability Assessment

Universal Credit test launches in 7 weeks
 
A brief history of "social housing"

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Universal Credit

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Landlords to gather for universal credit talk (LDE)

Universal Credit local services support framework paper (CAB)

Legal threat over Universal Credit scheme
 
Universal Credit not at odds with agile, says former chief
 
The Free School Lunches and Milk (Universal Credit) (England) Order 2013

The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013
 
Universal Credit Regulations

Universal Credit toolkit for partner organisations (DWP)   

New childcare policy excludes nearly 1m of UK's poorest families (Guardian)
 
Will rent arrears increase after Universal Credit introduction?

Ministers may increase direct payment exceptions

A New Patient Exemption - Universal Credit

Universal Credits

North West to benefit from Universal Credit
 
Universal Credit: A 'springboard' into local and better banking
 
Get ready for Universal Credit

Universal Credit Toolkit - Money Advice Service
 
Has the Universal Credit scheme already failed?

Universal Credit calculations 'will be done manually with spreadsheets'

Digital drive could take down universal credit
 
IDA services put on ice for Universal Credit delivery

Universal credit pilots issue digital access warning
 
Digital Exclusion (Universal Credit)

The vultures circle over Universal Credit IT
 
Universal credit benefits system 'in meltdown', claims Labour (Guardian)

DWP denies major IT problems with One Dole To Rule Them All system

MP adamant Universal Credit IT suppliers told to down tools

Universal credit: Concerns raised over IT system (BBC)

Universal Credit – computer says no? 

Implementing Universal Credit and supporting service users 
 
Universal Credit and Online Claims

Universal Credit
 
The Rent Officers (Universal Credit Functions) Order 2013
 
Households hammered: 9 in 10 families to be worse off by 2015 by up £2,000 a year (M)

Universal Credit: How will changes in state benefits affect me? (M)
 
Universal Credit – how it works and criticisms

Are we ready for Universal Credit?
 
Universal Credit

Universal Credit
 
Universal Credit: questions remain over implementation
 
Supplementary Estimates 2012-13 — Department for Work and Pensions — Universal Credit

Welsh Universal Credit trials make good tenants turn bad!

Universal Credit: Oral Answers to Questions — Wales

Plaid MP warns Universal Credit policy won't work for Wales
 
Universal Credit: tenants could be 'a broken washing machine away from not paying rent'

Universal Credit implementation: meeting the needs of vulnerable claimants

Opinion: is the Universal Credit challenge greater than feared?

Rent arrears soar sevenfold in Universal Credit trial

Landlords prepare for Universal Credit with direct debit switch

Universal Credit demands a new approach to bank accounts
 
DWP and Treasury in standoff over £145 million Universal Credit fund
 
London Assembly demands 'urgent review' of Universal Credit over direct payment fears
 
Universal credit threatens eviction amnesty
 
Universal Credit director ‘moves on to other work’ after just four months

Another Universal Credit leader stands down
 
Comment: Universal Credit should provide food for thought (MKC)

Dorset MP's concerns over new credit for poor
 
Universal Credit
 
Universal Credit

'Bedroom tax will stop new homes being built'

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Universal Jobmatch

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FOI Watch: DWP discloses nearly 200 Universal Jobmatch docs/updates
 
A Deadly Warning From Across the Ocean for Universal Jobmatch
 
Diary: openings galore on IDS's Universal Jobmatch website, aka the universal dog's breakfast (Independent)
 
Compulsory use of Universal Jobmatch (FOIR)
 
DWP internal Universal Jobmatch guidance published
 
Universal Jobmatch: Your rights
 
Universal Jobmatch: How to remove DWP account access if given

Universal Jobmatch: Cookies
 
Equality Impact Assessment for Universal Jobmatch
 
Universal Jobmatch faqs,(question and answer brief) (FOIR)
 
Guidance (FOIR)

Privacy Impact Assessment for Universal Jobmatch (FOIR)

Universal Jobmatch Toolkit Chapters 1, 2, 3 and all others (FOIR)
 
Written question on Universal Job Match

Universal Jobmatch Awareness Training launched in Plymouth for jobseekers

Job seekers in Devonport in Plymouth get helping hand with job-finding training sessions (PH)

Jobseekers required to use Universal Jobmatch

Universal Jobmatch Mandatory (but not ‘Blanket’) from 4th March

Universal Job Match site is now mandatory, but not problem free

“4 March 2013 – Jobseekers required to use Universal Jobmatch”


Nigel

Read It And Weep 7

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2013

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Forced Labour (WP/WF/WCA), Welfare, Entitlements and General

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Welby’s call on welfare puts IDS on the defensive (Independent)
 
Business News: Numbers of employed are up as firms see benefits of taking on trainees (CT)

Council loses major contract (WT)
 
Work programme farce must end now

Disappointment by results
 
iSociety: Committee to benefit from rare sighting of welfare minister (HS)

Charity helps 900 people back into work (M24)

Work Programme 'depends on economy' (E&S)

Work Programme toils in vain to get results (TES)
 
Accent chief exec speaks out in response to concerns over Work Programme
 
Skills conditionality guidance (FOIR)
 
Skills Conditionality

College helps local people to manage their money

Is Chris Grayling running scared of Margaret Hodge? (NS)
 
Revealed: Tory scheme to get disabled back to work finds places for just TEN people (DR)

MP spends time with jobseekers (Star)

Work Programme Consultant 
 
'Social landlords should deliver the Work Programme'
 
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Universal Credit

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(No. 380) Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 laid before Parliament

***** The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2013 ***** 

Universal credit has descended into universal chaos

Universal credit benefits system 'in meltdown', claims Labour
 
Universal credit scheme 'on track'

Universal Credit: Local Support Services Framework

Estimates day debates: Universal Credit and Regulation of Medical Implants 

Universal credit benefits system 'in meltdown', claims Labour (Guardian)

Digital access will make or break Universal Credit, say charities and HAs
 
Universal Credit
 
Universal Credit rollout 'is on course'
 
Universal Credit and Online Claims
 
Implementing Universal Credit and supporting service users
 
Local job services ‘vital to ensure Universal Credit works’
 
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Universal Jobmatch

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4 March 2013 – Jobseekers required to use Universal Jobmatch (DWP)

Jobseekers can be required to use Universal Jobmatch or risk losing benefits

Universal Jobmatch: Cookies
 
Mandating to Universal Jobmatch: Update (PCS)

TOPIC: Universal Jobmatch Latest
 
Universal Job Match - Do NOT sign!

Universal Jobmatch service getting '6 million searches daily'
 
“4 March 2013 – Jobseekers required to use Universal Jobmatch”
 
Universal Jobmatch – Privacy Policy

Universal Jobmatch: Update from PCS Union, March 1st 2013
 
Nigel

Read It And Weep 6

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2013

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Forced Labour (WP/WF/WCA), Welfare, Entitlements and General

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The Impact of Welfare Reform in Dumfries and Galloway
 
Work Programme contracts at ‘high risk’ of cancellation
 
Barnardo's denies claims it participates in 'mandatory work activity'
 
PAC report shows Work Programme is helping just 1 in 28 people back into work

Welfare reform and the vilification of the ‘undeserving poor' 

Welfare reform is sector's biggest concern in 2013

Lib Dems want distance from welfare reform
 
Localising the Work Programme

New ‘Back to Work’ Workfare Regulations: Jobcentre Decision Makers Guide published

New workfare regulations: The Jobseekers Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/276)

***** The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013 ***** 

***** Memo DMG 04/13: JSA AND SCHEMES FOR ASSISTING PERSONS TO OBTAIN EMPLOYMENT *****

Benefits for people looking for work
 
Appeal to overturn Back to Work (workfare) sanctions issued before 12th Feb 2013
 
Early signs are that the Work Programme is delivering value for money says ERSA

CBI responds to public accounts committee report on work programme

The Work Programme Is Not Working - It Needs Fixing - And Swiftly (HP)

The Work Programme isn't working
 
Bedroom tax protestors to target One Vision Housing
 
The Jobseeker's Allowance Skills Conditionality Pilot
 
Charities focus on failings of Work Programme Report confirms Crisis’ warning about Work Programme

Team offers masterclass in landing the right job
 
Why is the Work Programme failing?

Work Programme excludes specialist provision, says research
 
Don’t just criticise the Work Programme, encourage more employers to take it up, CIPD tells MPs

NPC to government: Don’t repeat Work Programme mistakes
 
MPs: Work Programme extremely poor
 
Teenager slams Government back to work programme (BM)

Mark Hoban: “Sometimes, work experience is just what you need”
 
Are employers up to speed on failing Work Programme? 

British Gas to create 1,000 skilled jobs for young trainees (Telegraph)

Work programme farce must end now

Welfare reform or unfair reform? (Guardian)
 
UPDATE: PCS calls for work programme to be scrapped

Work programme farce must end now (BT)

Work Programme for UK unemployed is failing, report says
 
Work Programme Doesn’t Work!

A difficult time for IDS

Now MPs think the work programme is not fit for work

Government’s Work Programme is 'worse than doing nothing'

Is Workfare Behind the Work Programme Disaster?

MPs blast government’s flagship Work Programme ~ only 3.6% of claimants moved off benefits into sustained employment

Welfare to work scheme failing, say MPs

Work programme failure: Finger pointed at payment-by-results 
 
Work Programme not fit for purpose (HS)
 
Mehdi's Morning Memo: Does The Work Programme, Er, Work? (HP)

CBI responds to Public Accounts Committee report on the Work Programme
 
Is the Work Programme working? No, say MPs (NS)

Work Programme Cost More Jobs Than It Has Created, Say MPs (HP)

Welfare-to-work scheme performance 'abysmal' (BBC)
 
MPs: Work Programme extremely poor (LS)

Job seekers could have fared better without Work Programme, say MPs
 
Work Programme providers 'parking' hardest-to-help, warn MPs
 
Pensions - Articles - DWP: Work Programme outcome statistics
 
Report examines performance of the Work Programme (PAC)

Department for Work and Pensions: Work Programme outcome statistics (PAC)
 
Work Programme facing new crisis as failing firms threatened with losing contracts (Telegraph)

MPs blast government's flagship Work Programme (Guardian)

Cameron's Back-to-Work scheme branded £5bn failure as only 3.6% of claimants found lasting jobs (Daily Mail)

Welfare-to-work scheme 'is failing' (BBC)
 
Worthless for the workless: Flagship scheme finds jobs for just 20 people out 9,500 (Mirror)
 
Workfare: Unexpected Intern in the bagging area (NS)

Welfare to work 'failing Birmingham' with 3.2% finding jobs

Work Programme failing hard to employ people

Welfare to Work Conference: Get Your Sponsorship in Now!

Jobcentre Plus Work Programme Exposed!
 
Sedgemoor 'ready-for-work' programme is getting results

The latest unemployment figures – still more questions than answers
 
Charities Say Millions Without Internet Access Will Face Benefits Strug

Generation debt: Unemployment leaving under-25s struggling with debt
 
Half Of Urban Kids In Poverty

BBC News – ‘Bedroom tax’ rules re-examined

Short Term Benefit Advances 
 
Letter to the Information Commissioner
 
Eight Costa Coffee jobs attract 1,700 applications

Wages and productivity falling despite positive unemployment figures

Ofgem blasted as they warn energy bills are set to soar yet again
 
Unemployment falls to 2.5 million

Unemployment down 14,000 to 2.50 million
 
LISTEN: Iain Duncan-Smith’s Explosive Row With James O’Brien
 
Jonty's "tweets are protected"

Progressives can win the debate on welfare
 
A mother of 11 housed in a ‘mansion’? Spare us this modern morality tale

Minister Fears Housing Benefit Plan Risks Rise In Homelessness
 
Atos Healthcare Announces The Organisations Who Will Deliver New Disability Benefit
 
#Atos is a Govt healthcare provider and you have the legal right to complain about them. Read how! #wca #esaSOS #ukmh
 
Work Programme ruling means sanctions can be appealed

Court of Appeal strikes down Work Programme Regulations
 
Appeal to overturn Back to Work (workfare) sanctions issued before 12th Feb 2013
 
The Sue Ryder charity and its sinister Orwellian doublethink
 
Sue Ryder position statement on the Department for Work and Pensions' backto- work schemes (commonly known as Workfare)
 
We Make Millions From Forcing Sick and Disabled to Work Unpaid Boast Sue Ryder

Workfare does not work and is not fair

Work in progress (Guardian)

The Work Programme's only success is at 'creaming and parking' (Guardian)

Work programme is failing hard to reach groups

Vulnerable jobseekers in work programme ignored

A4e and Medskills sign an MoU to co-design training for 5,000 Patient Care Assistants

Bedroom Tax – the 2.9 bed house revisited – Why it needs much more consideration than wait and see!
 
'Parking' of hardest Work Programme cases with charities is endemic, says study (TS)
 
***** Does sector matter? Understanding the experiences of providers in the Work Programme (TSRC) *****

'Creaming and parking’ are inevitable side effects of Work Programme, research suggests
 
Work Programme excludes specialist provision, says research

Most vulnerable jobseekers 'too costly' for Work Programme providers

Most vulnerable jobseekers 'too costly' for Work Programme providers (Guardian)

Work Programme providers plead poverty (NS)
 
Benefits changes put 80 Shropshire Council jobs at risk (SS)

Even A4E Tutor thinks Workfare is wrong
 
Instruct SFO to investigate activities of A4E

Labour: 40 days to show you believe in paid work
 
Bedroom Tax – If KHT can do it, why can’t my landlord?
 
Bedroom Tax – The Tories new strategy – more known lies that Joe Public laps up
 
Bedroom Tax – Oh the ‘people’ are discussing this bedroom tax – I’d better write about it!

15th February 2013: : Armed Forces Independence Payment to be introduced from 8 April 2013
 
Ian Duncan Smith Workfare Propaganda 
 
DWP the rushed out letter

Mandatory Work Activity, Workfare and Sanctions
 
New Workfare Regulations 14/2/13
 
The Case of the Disappearing Workfare Scheme

CAP - has it been abandoned? 
 
Million Jobs: The group with links to IDS's think tank which is defending workfare
 
Invitation: exposing W2W

A lesson in taxation for Smith and Shapps

Welsh low-middle income families hit hardest by welfare reforms
 
PIP MOBILITY CHANGES MAY BE ILLEGAL – YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED

*****  The Work Programme: Experience of Different User Groups - UNCORRECTED TRANSCRIPT OF ORAL EVIDENCE   *****

Food Poverty ‘Puts UK’s International Human Rights Obligations In Danger’
 
News: Update for Work Programme customers
 
Majority of public want to maintain or increase welfare spending, according to new poll

The public don't support further welfare cuts
 
Between a rock and a hard place? Iain Duncan Smith challenged by geologists over Poundland case comments – UK Politics – UK – The Independent
 
''Some think they're above work schemes''

IDS - graduates not too good to work in supermarkets
 
Shelf-stacking and IDS

How consumer boycotts have overtaken the shop floor in the struggle against corporate tax avoidance, power and exploitation
 
Illegal use of B&Bs to house homeless people soars by 800%

Tories Lead Hall Of Shame For Illegal Housing Of Homeless

How To Turn A Housing Crisis Into A Homeless Catastrophe
 
Atos Subcontracts Tests For New Disability Benefit To NHS
 
Internship, Reed

Iain Duncan Smith’s Licence To Kill

Cancer Patients Face Cash Cut Under Benefits Bill, Say Charities
 
Poverty Map Shows How Cuts In Benefits Will Hurt Children
 
As above, so below: Right-wing attacks on free speech and protest
 
List Of Workfare Companies 
 
IDS Says ‘Shelf Stacking Is More Important Than Geology’

Iain Duncan Smith: Shelf-Stacking As Important As A Degree
 
Duncan Smith: Shelf-stacking more important than geology (BBC)

Iain Duncan Smith: shelf-stacking as important as a degree (Guardian)

MP in tribute to staff at A4e base

Exciting Work Programme and Enterprise Opportunity
 
Charities delivering services for the Work Programme are 'poorly supported'
 
Bedroom tax: Pensioners WILL lose out (Mirror)

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Universal Credit

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Universal Credit (UC)
 
Universal Credit Rates 2013/2014 (Monthly)
 
Universal Credit Social landlords outsource direct debits ahead of Universal Credit
 
LGC View - Universal credit

Universal Credit and Travel to Work Distance (FOIR)

Universal credit

Northern Ireland Universal Credit Information Booklet

Universal Credit still on track‚ says Whitehall IT chief

Universal Credit - questions and answers
 
Universal Credit Drives Credit Union Adoption of Contis Group’s credEcardplus
 
UNIVERSAL CREDIT DELIVERY STRENGTHENED TO ALLAY FEARS OF FAILURE
 
Universal Credit, how will it work?
 
Doughty, S - Universal Credit (Wales)
 
Universal Credit
 
Single parents and universal credit: singled out?
 
Universal credit
 
ALMO chooses allpay to manage direct debits ahead of Universal Credit
 
Universal Credit has the hallmarks of another IT failure
 
Universal Credit - Local Support Services Framework
 
How will Universal Credits affect your business?
 
Free Universal Credit training from Gingerbread
 
Universal Credit: Who decides what is “vulnerable”?
 
Universal Credit and Pitchford – good move or a potential conflict of interest?
 
Universal Credit Guidance on personal budgeting support (DWP)
 
Choosing a bank account for your Universal Credit payment
 
Changes to benefits: Your questions answered - Universal credit 
 
Commute three hours a day or lose benefits, jobseekers are told in tough new plan (Daily Mail)

Benefit reforms: blatant discrimination against young parents (Telegraph)

Will Universal Credit be a government IT disaster or prove lessons were learnt?
 
Govt fear Universal Credit disaster

Welfare Reform - Universal Credit
 
Universal Credit: housing chief slams direct payments as 'daft'

In practice: Oldham MBC
 
Local support for universal credit claimants
 
Claimant categories that could qualify for extra support

Good luck to David PItchford with Universal Credit….

Universal Credit explained

Draft Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013: Draft Universal Credit Regulations 2013
 
Universal Credit: Guidance on personal budgeting support (DWP)

Not everyone is on the internet, Iain Duncan Smith (Guardian)

Universal Credit - Local Support Services Framework

Universal Credit

Welfare reforms in doubt after troubleshooter takes over (Telegraph)

Government brings in trouble-shooter to get its Universal Credit benefits programme on track before launch (Independent)

Pitchford to head-up Universal Credit programme
 
Universal Credit exceptions for vulnerable claimants announced

11 February 2013 – Freud/LGA: Supporting vulnerable claimants on Universal Credit - DWP

Major Projects chief put in charge of Universal Credit

UC - An Introduction Direct payments to landlords prioritised in Universal Credit exceptions

Universal credit: more tenants face eviction and rent arrears (Guardian)

Contis signs credit unions to credEcardplus
 
Universal Credit FAQ
 
Universal Credit Regulations 2013 — Motion to Approve

Peers refuse to sanction criticism of universal credit

Welfare reform SI approval motions Universal Credit and related regulations, House of Lords (CAB)
 
Universal credit - launches in October 2013

Councils must prepare for the unexpected as universal credit rolls out (Guardian)

DWP will rule on Universal Credit direct payment exceptions

Councils to help people claim Universal Credit online
 
Universal Credit
 
Welfare changes: tenants get explanatory video
 
Universal Credit News
 
Welfare reform SI approval motions Universal Credit and related regulations, House of Lords

Universal Credit timetable
 
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Universal Jobmatch

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Universal Job Match Briefing
 
Are you a Jobseeker and want to Gain Universal Jobmatch ICT Skills?

Universal Jobmatch still mandatory or not?
 
Universal Jobmatch
 
Mandating to Universal Jobmatch: Update (PCS)

Plymouth Advice Centre for Employment runs courses on using Government's Universal Jobmatch site (TID)

Claimants 'must use' job website (E&S)

Universal Jobmatch mandatory from Monday 4 March 
 
Universal Jobmatch Goes Mandatory
 
EU e-Privacy Directive and Internet Access Devices (FOIR)

Mandation and Universal Jobmatch (FOIR)
 
Universal Jobmatch made mandatory, from Monday 4th March 2013?
 
Universal Jobmatch: Jobseeker Directions being issued
 
Universal Jobmatch - Update
 
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