Stitching-up claimants is all part of the job, says Jobcentre insider

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Last week Iain Duncan Smith met a whistle-blower who has worked for his Department for Work and Pensions for more than 20 years.

Giving the Secretary of State a dossier of evidence, the former Jobcentre Plus adviser told him of a “brutal and bullying” culture of “setting claimants up to fail”.

“The pressure to sanction customers was constant,” he said. “It led to people being stitched-up on a daily basis.”

The man wishes to be anonymous but gave his details to IDS, DWP minister Esther McVey and Neil Couling, Head of Jobcentre Plus, who also attended the meeting.

“We were constantly told ‘agitate the customer’ and that ‘any engagement with the customer is an opportunity to ­sanction’,” he told them.

Labour MP Debbie Abrahams, the member of the DWP Select Committee who set up the meeting, has renewed her call for an inquiry into inappropriate sanctioning.

“I am deeply concerned that sanctions are being used to create the illusion the Government is bringing down unemployment,” she said.

Sanctions pre-date the Coalition as a way of ensuring benefit claimants, who include the jobless and sick and disabled people on Employment Support Allowance, attend appointments and apply for jobs. But under the Tory-led Government, they have soared – to 897,690 a year from the most recent data.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stitching-up-claimants-part-job-says-3537051


from May last year...but no better if not worse Now....


and you wonder why I consider those who work for this shameful organisation to be entirely without honour...

In fact come the revolution i would put them against the brick wall first...

IDS and his troupe of performing monkeys are merely self seeking low lifes

these people are traitors to their own.......

KD has got more brains, more concern about others and is nicer than either of you have a hope in hell of being.

Tommy Monk wrote:He'll just keep on twisting now rags... like he usually does when he mugs himself off... he'll be chipping away in all directions now, just to try to find one little thing to be able to latch on to so as to then try to claim to be 'the winner'...!!!






Anyway I'm off... have fun!

I'm off myself soon Tommy - stuff to do tomorrow. I don't have a life of luxury like Korban.

Tommy Monk wrote:He'll just keep on twisting now rags... like he usually does when he mugs himself off... he'll be chipping away in all directions now, just to try to find one little thing to be able to latch on to so as to then try to claim to be 'the winner'...!!!






Anyway I'm off... have fun!

somebody lift your rock ?

sassy wrote:KD has got more brains, more concern about others and is nicer than either of you have a hope in hell of being.  

thanks

korban dallas wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

So you think that being a parent means being concerned about a kid having the "latest trainers".

I'm not saying they shouldn't tell anyone where their clothes came from, I'm saying they don't have to if they don't want to. You're the one who was bleating on about kids being bullied for not having new clothes, not me. All I'm saying is - who would know unless they told anyone? If it bothers them that much, they don't have to say.

It doesn't bother me, but now you're twisting all that as usual. I don't habitually go up to people and say - hey, guess where I got this coat from? If it comes up, and they ask, I'll tell them.

You have a problem with that?

You're the one who dug yourself into a hole from the first moment you turned your nose up at second hand clothes. You're just a snob really.

but you just did ? and i am not twisting anything you keep making statements at cross purposes to previous ones that not my fault that yours
i just pick up on them what is obvious you and Tommy are the ones that don`t understand
Tommy does it because its in his nature you because your life experience are lacking in maturity and experience, how old are you was i right early 30s its not really that personal information but i guess you refusal to answer a pretty simple question says lots as well

She has no children, she has no empathy and she doesn't give a flying fuck for anyone worse off than herself.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:He'll just keep on twisting now rags... like he usually does when he mugs himself off... he'll be chipping away in all directions now, just to try to find one little thing to be able to latch on to so as to then try to claim to be 'the winner'...!!!






Anyway I'm off... have fun!

I'm off myself soon Tommy - stuff to do tomorrow. I don't have a life of luxury like Korban.

nether do i i am on the night shift with my daughter life of luxury indeed

korban dallas wrote:

sassy wrote:KD has got more brains, more concern about others and is nicer than either of you have a hope in hell of being.  

thanks

You're welcome, it's the truth.

korban dallas wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

I'm off myself soon Tommy - stuff to do tomorrow. I don't have a life of luxury like Korban.

nether do i i am on the night shift with my daughter life of luxury indeed

Don't know how you keep going, the fact that you do and make your daughter's life as good as you can make it says everything.

sassy wrote:

korban dallas wrote:
nether do i i am on the night shift with my daughter life of luxury indeed

Don't know how you keep going, the fact that you do and make your daughter's life as good as you can make it says everything.

i am way luckier than most in my position sassy but its far from a easy life but i have little choice in the matter there`s that thing again "choice" some of us have it others not so much

worrying every day she is going to fall bang her head and die from the injury or break something like her neck 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year in no luxury in any way just constant stress and worry more like

korban dallas wrote:worrying every day she is going to fall bang her head and die from the injury or break something like her neck 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year in no luxury in any way just constant stress and worry more like

I know exactly what you mean, never knew when she was going to have a fit, or a DVT would move and stop her breathing etc etc. It's the hardest job in the world, but the most rewarding.