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June 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Unpaid posts have been designed to get unemployed used to nine-to-five work
- Job Centre staff have been given power to force benefit claimants to do ‘mandatory work activities’
- Policy to be unveiled by employment minister Chris Grayling this week
By
Kirsty Walker
12:04 EST, 10 June 2012
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15:11 EST, 10 June 2012
Unemployed benefit claimants will be forced to carry out unpaid work if they refuse to turn up for two interviews or drop out of work programmes.
Under the ‘two strikes and you are out’ policy, the jobless will be told to work unpaid for up to 30 hours a week or they will be stripped of their benefits.
Sources say the results of a trial scheme are so striking that ministers are rolling it out nationwide this month in a programme hitting up to 50,000 unemployed.
People queue outside a Job Centre in Bristol. If a benefit claimant fail to turn up to two interviews they will be forced to take part in the programme to get them used to working nine to five
Job Centre staff have been given the power to force anyone claiming out-of-work benefits to take part in ‘mandatory work activity’ – unpaid posts designed to get them used to working from nine to five.
Those who appear unwilling to look for work can be referred to the scheme at any stage, even on the first day of their claim.
The placements are typically with charities or involve some kind of community service, such as helping to maintain parks, working in a local sports club or doing maintenance work for housing residents.
Those who refuse to take part, or agree but then fail to turn up, have their £67.50-a-week unemployment benefit stopped for a minimum of three months.
Pilots have found that half of those claiming unemployment benefits would prefer to lose their handouts than do a stint of unpaid work.
Figures show that 20 per cent of those ordered to take part in four-week community projects stop claiming immediately and another 30 per cent are stripped of their benefits when they fail to turn up.
Officials suspect many of those who stop claiming benefits are working in the black economy and would rather lose their welfare than give up their undeclared earnings.
Chris Grayling, Minister for Employment, will be taking the policy nationwide later this month
The scheme, which is delivered by a range of organisations from the private, voluntary and third sector, is already underway in London, the East and Yorkshire the Humber.
In a major expansion of the scheme, it will now be rolled out throughout the country.
It will cost around £5million because officials have to arrange work placements and monitor claimants’ attendance. However, ministers believe it will produce big savings to Britain’s £100billion benefits bill in the long term.
The mandatory work activity scheme is separate to the unpaid work experience for private firms, which critics have attacked as ‘slave labour’.
About 18,000 people a year are believed to be part-taking in the ‘mandatory work activity’-scheme.
Employment minister Chris Grayling, who will be unveiling the policy later this week, wants to double this figure.
Grayling said: ‘If Jobcentre Plus advisers believe a jobseeker would benefit from getting some experience of the work environment they can now refer them onto a work activity placement.
‘These placements are all about getting people into a working routine if they need an additional push to get into employment.
‘This is beneficial to some jobseekers as it will allow them to develop more of a “work orientated mindset” but it also makes them a much more appealing prospect for an employer looking to fill a vacancy, and more confident when they enter the workplace.
‘We are determined to break the habit of worklessness and get those who can work into jobs.’
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Once you have been on the dole for 6 months you should have to work 3 days a week for your dole money. There must be work out there that needs doing, clearing litter, cleaning rivers, cleaning pavements, removing graffiti etc. If you didn’t do this work your benefits should be stopped.
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We have all known there are a certain number of malingerers but it appears to have reached a tipping point.
If anyone in employment wants to change jobs they find a way.
The permanently unemployed (because they are already employed on the QT) don”t want a real job just their free money. As can plainly be seen with all these schemes. Once these poeple are required to turn up somewhere they suddenly have other resources.
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I work for Jobcentreplus and in our region we have had MWA for almost a year now. Its also true that a significant number of customers who I have referred to a provider have signed off before starting or not turned up on their first day. Naturally
I have stopped their benefit. I also stop their benefit for RE (Refusing Employment) and ASE (not Actively Seeking Employment). Their benefit is also sanctioned if they FTA (Fail To Attend) an interview with me without good reason. After all their benefit comes out of the taxpayers pocket and I refuse to see that money abused.
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julie, chespeake va, 11/6/2012 04:11
It’s 04:00 – exactly how is she supposed to post letters, ring employers or otherwise seek employment when every single HR and recruitment agent in the country is asleep. I’d actually like a sensible answer to this. Dying to read it.
How do you know she is well off enough to own a computer and internet service, she is 19 years old so I’m guessing she is living at home using her parents computer and internet service. Also, an apple and banana are cheaper to buy than a McDonalds. How uneducated are you?
I am a tax payer (probably paying more in year than you will in your lifetime) and I am happy for my taxes to go to Laura. I hope when you need them that none of it goes to you.
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They called this “Work For the Dole” when it was tried in Australia. If fell apart here because there are more freeloaders than jobs where they could work. A friend managed about 20 of them recycling computers. He would find about 2 people who could follow directions out of each group. The rest were what he called simply unemployable.
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laura, Derby, 11/6/2012 03:51
I used to work in a Jobcentreplus and we all knew all too well who were genuinely looking for work and who were there just to get beer money, sadly we were not allowed to do anything about it.
The fact is people like you should continue to get the support you need, whilst the people who who abuse the system should get nothing. It works in every other country.
At least you have the right attitude – I’d be happy to give you a job.
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Another load of hot air
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Well, laura, Derby, 11/6/2012 02:32–
Your rther pitiful attempts to explain why taxpayers shouldnt be angry at freeloaders is only made more ironid=c that you apparantly:
1) have the spare time to read and post on DM
2)are not so very bad off, as you have a computer and internet service.
3) you havent starved to the point where youre forced to shut your trap in defending why you are working at McDonalds instead of surfing the Net
So, go cry your river somewhere. Some else is having money taken from them by force (pay your taxes or go to jail) so you can sponge off the system and then complain about how mean people are…I think you will get no sympathy here, girl.
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Ess, I appreciate your comment, and thank you for being so kind. But after reading through comments made here, a small minority have stereotyped people on benefits, that we are all scroungers, totally unwilling to work. I also feel that this is the feeling at times in my local community, people see me walking into the job centre and most likely assume that I’m a single mother who drinks all day and is too lazy to get off the sofa, when that couldn’t be further from the truth! I couldn’t agree more that people who abuse the benefit system as a way of earning money while doing nothing should be punished, and made to change their ways. Yet forcing people to work 30 hours a week for under sixty pounds is wrong! At least offer a job opportunity or a qualification at the end as an incentive!
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I will beleive it when I see it.
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