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| Liar! |
Iain Duncan Smith claims that coalition government reforms
are helping people back into work.
But yet another whistle blower, an ex Jobcentre official,
John Longden, has come forward with
evidence that Jobcentre bosses have been instructing staff to inconvenience and
agitate customers in order to encourage them off the books. Staff who failed to meet sanctions targets each month are
threatened with disciplinary action. The people they laughingly call “customers”
are set up to fail from day 1.
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| Helps though, when you get an 11% pay rise, doesn't it? |
People, it seems, are
being bullied off the dole. Staff have been told to annoy claimants, to change
appointments without telling them. Sanctioned claimants are considered,
for the purposes of government statistics, to be in employment, that is to say, no longer claiming benefits for being unemployed. This makes the figures look better, and saves the DWP budget for more important things like paying £39 for breakfast for Smithy, or buying his underpants on expenses.
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| Stephanie killed herself because she couldn't pay the bedroom tax. |
There are reports of people being sanctioned
for ridiculous reasons like...being 1 minute late for an appointment, for applying for the 'wrong' jobs,
for missing an appointment whilst at an interview, for turning down a job interview becasue the client was already attending another job interview at the same time...even for failing to complete
and interview because of having a heart attack in the middle of it!
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| IDS's ambition. To be first at something! |
Some of the people affected by unfair sanctions are having
to borrowing money or visit food banks, but some have nowhere to turn and have
died from hunger or cold, or have committed suicide.
We pay taxes for the Jobcentre system to exist. It is right
that people be helped to find work, and that those who show a reluctance to do
so should be sanctioned. But it seems to me that we are paying taxes to have
people unfairly targeted in order to save the face of Iain Duncan Smith, who
has made a complete mess of the benefits system, like everything else he has
ever turned his hand to.
We have to get rid of him and his team of evil ministers,
McVile and Fraud. The trouble is that the alternative Labour shadows would be
every bit as vile.
