Today I saw three things happen at the Jobcentre. It’s a bit weird that this happened just after I finally launched the ebook. I wasn’t trying to observe anything, it was just a routine interview. I wasn’t even expecting to see anything because my advisor is fine and so, if I were the sort of personContinue reading “Job Centre Refuses To Let Man Make New Benefits Claim And Sanctions Woman By Mistake”
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The DWP Works For YOU- Jobcentres must be run in accordance with benefits claimants’ wishes
DWP shaming The DWP thrives on shame. Its tool for repressing benefit claimants is total humiliation and control, and its security for its controversial policies are lies and vilifying of the unemployed. If it operated otherwise, its punishments for poverty – six month workfares, daily sign-ins, mandatory meetings- wouldn’t be tolerated by either its victimsContinue reading “The DWP Works For YOU- Jobcentres must be run in accordance with benefits claimants’ wishes”
Meg of the Ingeus Diaries: “I work for £51 a week to escape Jobcentre”
Remember Meg who previously told Slutocracy her story of the Ingeus experience (here and here)? She’s now working for £20 a week less than her Jobseeker’s Allowance just so she can escape the Jobcentre. “I earn £51 a week working 2 days a week. My jobseekers was £71 but I can’t cope with the JobcentreContinue reading “Meg of the Ingeus Diaries: “I work for £51 a week to escape Jobcentre””
EU free movement law discriminates non EU citizens
EU Law discriminates against individuals and families who aren’t EU citizens. Here’s a list of how EU citizens and their families are given preferential treatment over non-EU nationals (all references are to Directive 2004/38/EC): EU citizens can enter the UK (and all other EU Member States). The only requirement is that they have enough resourcesContinue reading “EU free movement law discriminates non EU citizens”
Myths about unemployment and why the unemployed deserve medals for workfare
As we all know, politicians and the media can’t shut up about how the unemployed are lazy scroungers or, recently, even child-killers (as alleged by George Osborne and the Daily Mail) just because Mick Philpott happened to be unemployed. But jobseekers are the ones who are working for free doing workfares up and down theContinue reading “Myths about unemployment and why the unemployed deserve medals for workfare”
Workfare: community service for the crime of being poor, or, How workfare encourages criminality
It’s already been pointed out by people like Johnny Void and the Boycott Workfare movement that workfare, as well as being immoral, is also dangerous because employers don’t know what they’re getting. What if an alcoholic is sent on a workfare in a bar, or someone with social phobia forced to work slave with theContinue reading “Workfare: community service for the crime of being poor, or, How workfare encourages criminality”
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