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By *ig1gaz1 OP Man
over a year ago
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i thought id post this up just incase anyone is on low pay or minimal hrs in a job
you might be in a universal credit area (uc)
Ministers have launched a pilot scheme that will see housing benefit sanctioned for low-paid welfare claimants if they fail to increase their hours or increase their salaries.
The trial, which was quietly introduced last month through secondary legislation, is for 15,000 of Britain’s universal credit claimants who are working less than 35 hours a week on the minimum wage - typically earning a salary of less than £12,000 a year.
Currently, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) sanctions apply only to jobseeker’s allowance and employment and support allowance, and do not affect housing benefit.
But under universal credit, which rolls a number of welfare payments - including housing benefit - into one monthly sum, sanctions will apply to in-work benefits, including the housing cost of the single payment.
Under the mandatory pilot that launches in April, universal credit claimants will receive support from Job Centre Plus to increase their pay through work-focused interviews and work search requirements. But failure to co-operate could result in a sanction.
The level of benefit reduction for in-work universal credit claimants who are sanctioned starts at around £29 per person per week.
According to figures published in November, job centres gave out 380,028 sanctions up to June last year. |
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According to figures published in November, job centres gave out 380,028 sanctions up to June last year."
Quite ironic given the vitriol aimed at the 'benefits scroungers' on the other thread!
Some TV producers should take more responsibility for the hatred they whip up....
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What if you can't get your hours increased.....   "
you'll get sanctioned. appeal every single time though, otherwise each sanction gets worse.
someone i know put a claim in in november, hasn't even been paid yet, they've tried to sanction him 3 times.
fucking joke this country right now, everything must go, they're chipping away at welfare little by little. pretty sure there'll be no such thing as pensions when i'm entitled, i'll probably be dead anyway coz there'll be no NHS either. |
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By *ig1gaz1 OP Man
over a year ago
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the info is on speye wordpress
Tenants have been persuaded by social landlords EET programmes (let’s get our tenants into work to avoid arrears) and landlords have spent millions on these programmes – millions that are now all in vain as the advice they (naturally) gave was work 30 hours and you will be better off even at £6.50 per hour. Landlord welfare teams and job centre plus advisors did the same with the ‘better off calculations’ they ran to persuade tenants / benefit claimants to take up a 30 hour per week position. They too are all in vain as this sneaky back door policy mentioned above does mean:
WORK 35 HOURS OR WE WILL SANCTION YOU
so anyone that was told 30hrs its no longer as you need to be doing over 35hrs a week or face the jcp and there sanctions routine |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Maybe it's time we built a guillotine erected it in Parliament Square and started culling the multi-millionaire political aristocracy and their equally corrupt uber-rich banker chums. "
just get rid of this system? change it's rules or bring out something that works properly.
if you do get sanctioned then you still have to do the exact same things that you did to claim JSA, but you don't recieve JSA, you recieve a different and lesser payment. Don't think that even makes sense. |
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"Maybe it's time we built a guillotine erected it in Parliament Square and started culling the multi-millionaire political aristocracy and their equally corrupt uber-rich banker chums.
just get rid of this system? change it's rules or bring out something that works properly.
if you do get sanctioned then you still have to do the exact same things that you did to claim JSA, but you don't recieve JSA, you recieve a different and lesser payment. Don't think that even makes sense."
Unfortunately it makes perfect sense when you understand that Osbourn and CamMoron consider the job of government to be redistributing the maximum amount of wealth by stripping it from the largest section of the population and passing it to their backers without causing a revolution or too much civil unrest.
When you realize this you will see that making the running of welfare a profit making private business with bonus payments for reducing welfare payments then welfare sanctions are really nothing more than another massive con to help line the pockets of the uber-rich! |
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"Maybe it's time we built a guillotine erected it in Parliament Square and started culling the multi-millionaire political aristocracy and their equally corrupt uber-rich banker chums.
just get rid of this system? change it's rules or bring out something that works properly.
if you do get sanctioned then you still have to do the exact same things that you did to claim JSA, but you don't recieve JSA, you recieve a different and lesser payment. Don't think that even makes sense.
Unfortunately it makes perfect sense when you understand that Osbourn and CamMoron consider the job of government to be redistributing the maximum amount of wealth by stripping it from the largest section of the population and passing it to their backers without causing a revolution or too much civil unrest.
When you realize this you will see that making the running of welfare a profit making private business with bonus payments for reducing welfare payments then welfare sanctions are really nothing more than another massive con to help line the pockets of the uber-rich!"
I know that's what they're all doing and have done for a long time. I meant the rule doesn't even make sense, don't know how it even exists? |
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