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DWP staff told to reach Aspiration targets. 

September 20, 2016

Some more information on this post from yesterday.

Charlotte Hughes's avatarThe poor side of life

The DWP like to create new names for targets that they want staff to reach. These names help the government to disassociate themselves from the heinous acts that they choose to inflict on claimants and their families.

I have it on good authority that a DWP Labour Market decision maker now has a new name for a target they have to reach.

A Labour Market decision maker is an employee of the DWP specifically employed to deal with Mandatory Reconsiderations. A Mandatory Reconsideration can be requested once a decision has been made to stop a claimants money for whatever reason given.

It’s supposed to be a fair process, but I’ve had good reason to doubt that this process is anything but fair. I’ve heard of a Mandatory Reconsideration being refused on the same day as the reconsideration was requested.

So yet again the evidence of target lead decisions is mounting…

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