A Warning To Volunteers!!!
From reader Jane Lauppen on Facebook.
VOLUNTEER WARNING! VOLUNTEER WARNING! VOLUNTEER WARNING!
May I remind volunteers,carers and the disabled especially, those usually on the lowest income bar being homeless, that the coalition is checking on volunteers for fraud in case they are working.
The government is sending mandatory job centre interview appointments to account for their voluntary work and any ‘payments’ attached in the form of a fee and expenses. The threat is if that volunteer does not attend,any benefit they maybe on will be stopped.
Please be aware that the kind generosity which induces a willing eagerness to participate in time spent helping others and ticking boxes for organisations such as local councils,universities and colleges etc.is now under close scrutiny by government under a presumption that the volunteer is guilty until proven innocent.
The hostile tone of these letters and the assumptions being made by government
is sufficient to warrant a risk assessment by volunteers for their own safety before embarking on volunteering.
Until this is stopped,many volunteers will be lost.
If anyone has received such a letter, please let me know- I would like to publish it.
Same Difference 
You see the charity dont want you anymore
it now boils down to a person meaning more
to charitys has a personal shelf stackers
has they now get a slave and whots more
they get monies for taking one or two
jeff3
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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So much for Camerons branded “Big Society” then
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Reblogged this on Britain Isn't Eating.
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There could be far more volunteers of all ages if The Greens got their finger out and told us all of their new and unique policies in their 2015 general election manifesto,
that replaces the cruel benefits regime
(actually adding not paying off the national debt with all the cost of admin and IT,
now up to 93 per cent) and
the total loss of all state pension for life coming
for women born from 1953 and men born from 1951
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
The Greens offer:
– Replacing all benefit with the citizen right, in or out of work and not requiring to be actively seeking work of:
– universal and automatic Citizen Income, non-withdrawable
to the level of the basic tax allowance
– Full State Pension to all citizens of same amount as Citizen Income, if not bettered, irregardless of National Insurance contribution / credit history.
– End of National Insurance Fund costing 12 per cent deductions from wages for the poorest on 16 hours and above, just to deny people benefit and state pension payout.
Without benefit or state pension, do not get winter fuel allowance.
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