Tag Archives: Seetec

Transcripts from the jobcentre: inside a Work Activities meeting for a man with learning difficulties

Posted on September 8, 2015 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reposted from Kate Belgrave This article is about a work activities-type meeting between a jobcentre disability employment adviser and a JSA claimant who has learning difficulties and some literacy problems. The article includes excerpts from a transcript of a recording … Continue reading →

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Campaigner had benefits docked despite inaccessible workshop

Posted on September 15, 2014 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reposted from Disability News service A disabled campaigner had more than £70 a week of her disability benefit stripped from her for three months because she could not attend a back-to-work workshop that a government assessment had already concluded would … Continue reading →

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DWP’s Seetec investigation under MPs’ spotlight

Posted on July 20, 2014 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reposted from Disability News Service The most senior civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been questioned by MPs about an investigation into alleged fraud by a company paid to find jobs for disabled people. Concerns … Continue reading →

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SANCTIONED ON WORK PROGRAMME AND BEGGING FOR FOOD

Posted on July 8, 2014 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reposted from Foodbank helper  Here’s what it’s like to be a vulnerable person, sanctioned by a work programme provider (you know, the ones paid by results) and having to live on a food budget of £3.50 a week. It’s enough to … Continue reading →

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Why being banned is no bar for G4S

Posted on May 19, 2014 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reposted from Private Eye   THE government’s claim that G4S was barred from negotiating for new contracts pending an “independent review” of its overcharging for prisoner tagging would appear to be complete bunkum – at least as far as work … Continue reading →

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Minister apologises after woman in coma was told to find work

Posted on February 28, 2014 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reposted from guardian society The minister for disabled people, Mike Penning, said that he apologised ‘unreservedly’ to the family of Sheila Holt. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images A government minister has apologised after it emerged that a Whitehall department sent letters … Continue reading →

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DWP ‘cover-up’ over Work Choice allegations

Posted on December 1, 2013 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

reposted from Disability News Service by John Pring   The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing accusations of a double cover-up, after altering two sets of guidelines, both of which had allegedly been breached by one of its … Continue reading →

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