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10-16-2018, 09:28 PM
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) could be about to come unstuck. Because Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has now got involved with the ongoing Universal Credit scandal. And in one motion, it could bring the benefit to its knees ....
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/201...of-corbyn/
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McVey failed to respond to letter about benefit deaths cover-up, DWP admits ...
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mc...wp-admits/
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How Britain's welfare state has been taken over by shadowy tech consultants ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...sal-credit
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07-20-2019, 06:46 PM
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The Unemployment Rate Statistics Fiddle ....
‘It has become one of the Conservatives’ go-to messages about their record in government, used to indicate the health of the jobs market.
Except many people don’t think it shows that at all. They argue the employment figures, published monthly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), are meaningless, or even fiddled , because just one hour of work a week counts as employment‘
“1 employee working 40hrs = 1 Job
40 employees working 1hr = 40 jobs
That's how the Tories make the employment figures sound so good”
https://fullfact.org/economy/employment-since-2010/
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Family's 'fight for justice' for woman who took own life days after her benefits were stopped -
Jodey Whiting's family have written to the Attorney General...
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/...t-17519767
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Campaigner who embarrassed DWP was forced into 15-month benefit battle – with DWP -
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2020/01/1...-with-dwp/
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DWP rules on benefit deductions declared illegal after court battle
A former police officer from the Midlands had £81 taken out of her benefits for 18 months for an 'energy bills debt' that didn't actually exist
A High Court judge has ruled that the DWP's policy of allowing utility firms to take money directly out of people's benefits is illegal. It follows a court case in which a Midlands woman successfully argued that water and energy firms should not be able to claw back cash from people's social security payouts without proper checks being carried out.
Helen Timson, a former police officer from Leicester, said the DWP should not approve deductions from benefits without claimants' consent. The case comes after the DWP rejected an appeal from MPs to put all deductions from benefits on hold during the cost of living crisis.
Up to 25 per cent can be taken from Universal Credit payments where claimants owe money to third parties - including energy firms and water suppliers - or for several other reasons, including where recipients have had an advance payment or have been sanctioned…
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/co...6HShOMbwZ4
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