Tuesday 12 February 2013
Taxpayers 'facing multi-million-pound compensation bill' as judges rule back-to-work schemes are unlawful in Poundland test case
"Cait Reilly has won her Court of Appeal claim that requiring her to work for free at a Poundland discount store was unlawful,
She and unemployed HGV driver Jamieson Wilson, from Nottingham, both succeeded in their claims, in the legal aid funded case,
The ruling will not affect the schemes’ existence but will mean the way in which they are written and enforced will need to change,
Lawyers say today's ruling could mean those whose benefits were stripped for refusing part in back-to-work schemes could now reclaim them,
But DWP say it is 'adamant there are no grounds for repayment'."
Neutral Citation Number: [2013] EWCA Civ 66
Court of Appeal Rules that the Government’s “Back to Work” Regulations are Unlawful and Must Be Quashed
Back-to-work scheme ruling explained
This Poundland ruling is a welcome blow to the Work Programme
Landmark workfare ruling, “govt acted unlawfully #workfare is quashed”
Graduate wins court fight that 'slave labour' at Poundland was unlawful
Back-to-work scheme breached laws, says Court of Appeal
Poundland ruling: Back-to-work schemes in disarray as no-pay placements judged unlawful
Poundland ruling 'blows big hole' through government work schemes
"Back-to-work scheme breached laws"
Government training scheme unlawful
Poundland ‘breached forced labour laws’
Graduate’s Poundland victory leaves government work schemes in tatters
Court of Appeal will this morning rule whether ConDem employment schemes constitute forced labour
Back to work schemes quashed in huge victory for ordinary people
Cait Reilly and Jamieson Wilson: Court Rules Workfare Unlawful.
Public Interest Lawyers Limited: Court of Appeal Rules that the Government’s “Back to Work” Regulations are Unlawful and Must Be Quashed
Back-to-work ruling 'undermines welfare reform'
Small Victories
Court of Appeal Rules “Back to Work” Regulations Unlawful And Must Be Quashed
Workfare Is Broken! New Court Ruling and Charity Exodus Are Death Knell For Forced Labour!
Unpaid work scheme is illegal, says court - with comment
Did you turn down Workfare and lose benefits? Claim them back now!
Poundland Made Me Feel Like I Was Free Labour, Says Cait Reilly – Video
DWP Response To Todays #Workfare Judgement
Back-to-work scheme regulations unlawful, not schemes themselves, says expert
What was the real reason for the work experience decision?
In praise of … Cait Reilly
Politics and the Poundland ruling
The Poundland Principle: The Only Thing To Gain From Unskilled Labour Is A Wage
Nigel
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Read It And Weep 4
2013
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Forced Labour (WP/WF/WCA), Welfare, Entitlements and General
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Lord Fraud’s Debt Trap Has Been Abandoned As He Begs Local Councils For Help
More people have no qualifications in unemployment blackspots
CPAG responds to consultation on child poverty measurement
Another charity commits not to use workfare
Shocking figures reveal the growth in UK’s wealth gap
More claims that the work programme is cheating disabled people and the taxpayer
Bedroom tax ‘won’t work in Liverpool’
Bedroom Tax row grows as Nicola Sturgeon claims Westminster not working for Scotland
Scrap ‘fitness tests’ targeting sick and disabled people and bring the work back in-house say PCS Union
Back to Work Programme
Subway sack New Addington woman by text message 'after she complains over unfair pay' (CT)
Jersey minister plans sanctions against people leaving jobs early (BBC)
Betrayal/Collusion
Benefits fears for non-net users
6th February 2013: HB Circular confirms proposed benefit uprating from April 2013
Housing Benefit Circular
Jobcentre Staff Are Not Social Workers Or Doctors Yet They Now Have More Power Over Vulnerable Lives
The Great Social Fund Robbery
Social Housing Bosses To Be Paid Thousands Per Meeting Whilst Tenants Face Homelessness
Bedroom Tax – Cameron’s bogus argument over fairness at PMQs
Bedroom Tax – Time for some facts about housing
Housing – The false private rented data published by Eric Pickles
Homeless Families Living in £3000 Per Week Hotels Due to Housing Benefit Reforms
Homeless Families Living in £3000 Per Week Hotels Due to Housing Benefit Reforms
Squaring Up to The Bedroom Tax: Resistance Grows Around the UK
Bedroom Tax: Work Longer To Keep Spare Room, Says Pensions Minister – BBC News
Bedroom Tax – The private landlord doesn’t do disability! An equality challenge?
Bedroom Tax – Radio 4 Today Programme and the Gruffalo with webbed feet and forked tongue
Bedroom Tax – Is it Abuse? (I dont mean abusive I mean Abuse!)
Bedroom Tax – How Cameron has lied to and shafted pensioners
The jobs gap – will retail be the next mining?
Client Declaration Forms
Triage Central Ltd Client Declarations Collection
Ingeus respond to my complaint
Tick Tock - Watch that Clock! Is it Game Over at 21 for Unemployed?
A new ally in the quest to change the WCA
MPs criticise Work Capability Assessment
Mark Hoban: A message isn’t scaremongering if it’s true
Scaremongering?
Damning Report On DWP’s Benefit Assessment Contract With Atos Healthcare Published
DWP Must Get To Grips With Benefit Testing, Says Hodge
More spending cuts on the way if coalition is to meet savings targets
Cameron wants care and compassion? He'd do well to show some himself (Guardian)
‘Ten Reasons to Hate the Welfare Cash Card’ ~ A direct attack on equality, dignity and human freedom
DWP Doncaster Jobseekers ‘had not been using loo paper at all’ TWEETS Current A4e Director of Policy & Strategy, former Reality TV toff and Adviser to Cameron
Eek! Referred to A4E for Work Programme - now what!
a4e job search session
MPs hear evidence of Work Programme failures from charities
Karl investigates help available to Lincoln Job-Seekers on the Work Programme
Bedroom tax activists stage protest at LMH offices
Bedroom tax: The heart-wrenching letter from a widow that shames David Cameron
Owen Jones: The bedroom tax is just the latest assault on our poorest citizens
‘Bedroom Tax’: “Dumbfounded by the brutality of the Bill” and Tenants Set to Suffer say Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
Public Accounts Committee Report on the DWP AtoS Contract management of medical services
Fitness for work testing deemed a failure as four out of 10 claimants are wrongly ruled fit to work
DWP to blame for fitness-to-work tests fiasco Commons Public Accounts Committee MPs say
FORMER soldiers will be made homeless and some could die because of the Con-Dem Government’s brutal benefit cuts, shocked MSPs have been told
Judge rules against Council Tax Challenge by Single Mum plunged into abject poverty in Haringey
WRA S.102 Sched.11 ‘Clause 99′ has been introduced from April to ensure wrongful ‘fit-for-work’ decisions are practically impossible to challenge
Public sector ‘steps’ up to provide work placements (LS)
Work Programme Employment Advisor
Benefits changes spark cuts at Castle & Minster Credit Union
This obsession with outsourcing public services has created a shadow state (Guardian)
DWP insists universal credit plans are 'on track'
Draft Universal Credit Regulations 2013 - Commons Library Standard Note
Delegated Legislation Committee - Draft Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2013
Welfare reform maze leaving claimants ‘in limbo’ (Scotsman)
Mystory
Welfare Reform Creates ‘Very Sick System’ – BBC Democracy Live (BBC)
Britain’s young strivers have no hope for the future
UK youth face bleak job prospects in 2013
DWP Launches Scheme In Bid To Aid Budding Disabled Entrepreneurs
This Is What Efficiency Savings Look Like: Elderly Woman Dies After Being Left Without Food, Medication, Water or Care
Bedroom Tax – Cameron and toy boys at PMQs
Bedroom Tax – The disabled myth is counterproductive
Freedom lives on! Early February round-up
IMPORTANT! An URGENT Call for YOUR Evidence for Legal Action to Challenge DLA-to-PIP regulations ~ Jane Young wants to hear from YOU
FOLLOW-UP BRIEFING BY MO STEWART: HOUSE OF COMMONS BACKBENCH BUSINESS DEBATE ‘ATOS HEALTHCARE & THE WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT’
Watch: UK welfare reforms “completely heartless” witnesses today told the Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee today
Work and Pensions Committee announces forthcoming evidence session on the Work Programme: experience of different user groups
More claims that the work programme is failing disabled people (BBC)
Boom in over-50s opting to be their own boss (Telegraph)
Self-employment accounts for 'growth' in jobs
The Government's Work Programme Needs Some Work (HP)
With Friends Like The Guardian Benefit Claimants Don’t Need Enemies
Skivers v strivers: the benefits debate explained | Animation (Guardian)
The Benefits Debate Explained. Is It Really Skivers v Strivers?
Strivers v skivers: the benefits debate in numbers
A4e audit (FOIR)
Let's have a proper debate
Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Kids Company (DWP)
Charities delivering services for the Work Programme are 'poorly supported'
Local government’s hidden talents
Interview questions: are you over-qualified for this job?
Are you overqualified for this job?
Census Report Reveals Bad Health Hotspots In Poorer Areas
Benefit Claimant Targeted By PayDay Loan Scam
Rip-Off Agents ‘Fuel Housing Crisis’
Rip-off agents 'fuel housing crisis'
The Work Programme
Town Hall protest over council’s £10m cuts to adult social care
Government's welfare reforms are all an act
NCVO collaborates with Serco
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Universal Credit
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Universal Credit pilot study
Families offered help to budget for universal credit
Universal Credit
Universal Credit
Landlord calls for more advice on universal credit
Universal Credit (Wales)
Universal Credit and support to vulnerable claimants
5 February 2013 – Vulnerable claimants will get support they need under Universal Credit, Ministers tell select committee
Universal Credit: Government not seeking to define 'vulnerability'
Universal Credit implementation: meeting the needs of vulnerable claimants
Views sought on impact of Universal Credit
Universal Credit: 'Carefully selected' tenants struggling to cope with direct payments
Universal Credit implementation: Government response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee (DWP)
Universal Credit implementation: meeting the needs of vulnerable claimants — Government response to the Committee’s Report
Government attacked over continued failure to define 'vulnerable' in Universal Credit plans
Vulnerable claimants to get Universal Credit help - minister
What is universal credit?
Universal Credit information event
Universal credit will “seriously backfire” in Wales – Welsh MP
MPs debate Universal Credit (Wales)
Universal Credit Changes
Wise up: to Universal Credit
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM TO THE UNIVERSAL CREDIT REGULATIONS 2013
Why transitional protection offers far from Universal assurance for Universal Credit claimants
Vulnerable claimants to get Universal Credit help - minister
Universal Credit - frequently asked questions
Universal credit FAQs
Universal Credit, China's moon ambitions and in-car internet speeds
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Universal Jobmatch
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Funeployment 7 - Universal Job Match
Universal Jobmatch Key Facts for Benefit Claimant
Nigel
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Read It And Weep 3
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RIAW 2, here.
RIAW 1, here.
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2013
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Forced Labour (WP/WF/WCA), Welfare, Entitlements and General
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Work Programme: the experience of different user groups - video
Work and Pensions Committee announces forthcoming evidence session on the Work Programme: experience of different user groups
Work and Pensions Committee hearing on Work Programme
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Coalition caught out over ‘strivers v skivers’
Campaigners unite to fight housing benefit cuts
Margot James highlights success of Work programme in west midlands
Praise for Steps to Work programme
New career on a plate: Mum returns to jobs market after 25 years at home (Mirror)
1st February 2013: Specimen PIP forms released
Bedroom-tax will hammer single/grand/foster parents, disabled, forces, bereaved
Hundreds of families in Osborne’s own constituency set to lose out with ‘bedroom tax’
‘Bedroom tax’: Solicitor’s call for Holyrood to change Scots law to protect tenants from eviction rebuffed by SNP’s Linda Fabiani
Youth unemployment: review of training for young people with low qualifications (CESI)
Scope responds to Panorama expose on Work Programme
Work Programme providers can’t get paid without your consent – New DWP guidance
Welfare Fraud Is A Drop In The Ocean Compared To Tax Avoidance
Iain Duncan Smith Attacked For 'Poor Parents Spend Money On Alcohol And Drugs' Comments (HP)
Deadly human cost of Ireland’s austerity measures
Increasing mental health problems among Britain’s young people
Work Programme: Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry
Work Programme: the experience of different user groups
JRF: Council tax benefit – the sting in the tail
Work advisers 'pushing jobless into self-employment' (BBC)
Radio 5 Live Investigates - the self-employment scam
Remploy job figures underline Work Programme’s failure
A DISABLED campaigner has been found dead on the day the Glasgow factory where he worked for 40 years closed down
DPAC Campaign for Benefit Justice and Against The Bedroom Tax ~ Sign the Statement
Pensioners hit by £75m bedroom tax this year
Bedroom Tax fair? Yes if we take £1.4bn per year of benefit from owners!
Bedroom Tax – a real case and how to deal with it? (And a bit of a rant)
The overall benefit cap for Dummies – Wayne & Waynetta explain
Bedroom Tax for Dummies
Clause 99 – further disfiguring benefits for the disabled
Child poverty may be relative, but it’s a killer and a blight
Workfare Can Be Broken – Join the Week of Action and help make it happen
David 1, Goliath 0
Do They Want A Riot? Here Comes the Poll Tax
Two new Work Programme pilot programmes to support drug and alcohol addicted claimants into work
Iain Duncan Smith On Drugs Is Just Another Workfare Racket
Councils 'could cut youth unemployment by 20%' (BBC)
Whitehall should give councils greater role in job schemes
Give us the tools to tackle youth jobs crisis, say councils
Umbrella campaign group forms to oppose Government's welfare cuts
Work programme 'failing homeless people'
Crisis warns Work Programme 'failing homeless people'
Refuge’s fears over change to benefits
Schemes to get addicts into work
New 'poll tax' blow for UK's poorest (Independent)
'Millions of low-income households' face council tax rise (BBC)
Bedroom tax will hit 40% on benefit (ET)
Bedroom tax? Never heard of it says Tory MP who voted for it (C4)
Bedroom Tax part 8 – far bigger cuts to come with the benefit cap!
ConDem’s Council Tax Blitz on Poor : ‘The wrong reform – at the worst possible time’
New Poll Tax for the Working Poor and Unemployed as Council Tax Blow Approaches
Financially viable?
Piece rate piss take...
Letters: Dear Mr Clegg, Are You A Man Of Even A Modicum Of Decency And Humanity?
Channel Four FactCheck Blog ~ Food banks: is Cameron on the money?
Downing Street: ‘high’ benefits mean food banks should not be needed
Downing Street: High Benefits Mean Food Banks Should Not Be Needed
Prime Minister - benefits should be enough
Downing St: poor don't need food banks to help them eat
Tips for completing an ESA50
Atos scandal: Man found fit to work despite peeling bones
Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers ‘March’ Against Benefit Cuts
British Pain Society: How DWP~AtoS Work Capability Assessments are failing chronic pain patients
Westminster welfare cuts will push 15,000 more Scottish children below the poverty line
Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report ~ Poverty and Social Exclusion in Scotland 2013
Inclusion Scotland Reports and Documentary Resources
Fury as benefits bullies DWP force 50,000 disabled Scots to go back to work
Parents grieving the loss of their seven-year-old girl told they must pay tax on her room
800 Dungannon benefit claimants lose out on thousands of pounds (TT)
Mental health patients are being ‘detained in all but name’
Statistical manipulation disguises the fact that disabled people are being hit the hardest by cuts to benefits and services
Labour councils are helping young people into work (Guardian)
Liam Byrne on youth unemployment
EU youth unemployment is 'social emergency'
Leicester finance firm Carrington Carr recruits 36 staff as part of £1bn scheme (TIL)
British adults out of work due to health problems is costing the economy £100 billion, 2020 health report reveals
Employability Advisor/Trainer - Work Programme (two posts)
Letter 92: The Work Programme. It's not the claimants who are the "lying thieving bastards"
The Next BIG Idea: Basic Income “What work would you do if your income was taken care of?"
Housing association to create 1,000 apprenticeships for workless tenants
Has the third sector been compromised by State and commerce?
‘Welfare Cash Cards’ Are Much More Than A Tool Of State Control – The Guardian
The Dubious Benefits Of Welfare Payment Cards
Comment: People should look beyond the headlines at what Demos actually says on cash cards
Vultures Circle As Electronic Food Stamps Get Closer
Welfare payment cards are back
Welfare Cards: An Expensive And Unnecessary White Elephant
True scale of Newcastle kids in poverty 'to be hidden' (CL)
Tories’ outright lies on 1% benefit uprating
MPs hear evidence of Work Programme failures from charities
Government’s Work Programme “failing to deliver for disabled people”, says Scope
Scope responds to Panorama expose on Work Programme
Welfare reforms threaten our dignity - Salmond (Scotsman)
Smith, D - DWP Work Programme
The Work Programme Model is Broken and Rewards Corporate Idleness
Disability and Unemployment-A4E
Can you help Furness jobseekers get into work? (NWEM)
Employment minister backs Evening Mail’s campaign (NWEM)
Panorama highlights the work programme failures
Watch: “Lying, thieving, b******s”… Whistleblower reveals sick views of Work Programme contractors
Delboy the Tory
Return of Delboy the Tory
Review: Panorama – The Great Disability Scam?
‘A third’ of incapacity benefit claimants fit for work – after appeals
Letters: “Playing Games With Peoples Lives”
Social Care Is Bearing The Brunt Of Council Cuts – The Guardian
Why does Cameron hate the working time directive? Here are some of the key rights workers’ may lose
UK youth unemployment third worst in OECD – what are the lessons to be learnt?
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Universal Credit
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Universal Credit pathfinder - first claimants - Correction
First Universal Credit claimants to be childless couples
Universal Credit: Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions
Benefit changes - act now!: Universal credit
Are you ready for universal credit?
Welfare Reform - Universal Credit
Universal credit – if you’re already getting benefits and tax credits
Universal Credit
What is Universal Credit?
Universal Credit – effect on 'mixed-age' couples
Exceptions open for vulnerable Universal Credit claimants
Cheshire residents urged to prepare for introduction of universal credit (EPP)
Property Tribes / Buy-to-let Tribe v / universal credit
Has Lord Fraud Bungled the Universal Credit Launch?
Universal Credit Capita speech (DWP)
Pilots struggling to implement welfare reforms
Universal Credit Pathfinder details emerge – ‘prove before we move’ principle for IT implementation
Universal Credit: Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions
What is universal credit?
Welfare Reform, Universal Credit & Exempt Accommodation
Exceptions open for vulnerable Universal Credit claimants
RLA and Shelter raise universal credit arrears fears, as Freud claims landlords will not suffer ‘sudden losses’
Moving Universal Credit from Theory to Practice
Universal Credit: Veterans
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Universal Jobmatch
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Claimants Snub Universal Jobmatch and Foil DWP’s Snooping Plans
Universal Jobmatch (UJ) registered Employer Terms and Conditions could be changed? (FOIR)
Universal Jobmatch, Mandation and Privacy (FOIR)
Nigel
Saturday, 2 February 2013
David Stanley - Never Forgotten - 1st February, 2012
David Stanley
A gentleman walked this way
A gentleman walked this way
Nigel
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