This week, the government rolled out its ridiculous Help To Work scheme: a punitive, expensive, already-discredited arrangement which will push the long-term unemployed into workfare, and/or daily trips to the jobcentre, and ‘intensive support’, whatever that is. Looks like the useless G4S will be in the mix, too. “There’s no something for nothing any more,” George Osborne informed Daybreak when he revealed his Help To Work plans…
Just another day at the jobcentre…
May 6, 2014
Reposted from an article by Kate Belgrave NUJ
This excellent article by Kate sums up the Kafkaesque conditions meted out to jobseekers; it’s a long article but is well worth reading and just remember, these stories are true!
Interviews with unemployed and underemployed people reveal the exacting impact of dealing with jobcentres and workfare programmes. The UK government’s new ‘Help to Work’ scheme, with daily jobcentre visits, compulsory workfare and sanctions, looks set to do anything but ‘help’ jobseekers.
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Same Difference 
Osborne says theres no something for nothing anymore….This applies to those that have worked all their lives and paid in to this very corrupt system….And he will carry it through and get away with it because the people of this Country have become cowards who are letting the insane gov walk all over them…And now the gov are going to pick on the self employed…..will the people rise up against all this mental cruelty…..Doubtful….The gov can do what they want when they want even getting rid of 40.000 disabled people..And no one bats an eyelid…..
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