DWP sanctions ...reasonable or unreasonable...You choose??

Sanctions can be imposed for a long period of time even when a claiment has evidence in their defence

Sanctions and their levels

Universal Credit IDS and DWP team

Before it did not look good

The time table that is not going to plan

So what happened to IDS when he had to answer the questions 

Well.......................................
What is happening to the system IDS and team answer to the M.P's Department for Work and Pensions




Annual Report and Accounts
 Witnesses Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State, Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform, Howard Shiplee CBE, Universal Credit Director General, and Mike Driver, Finance Director General, Department for Work and Pensions

IDS and team on Universal Credit

Job seeker support with a tablet

It is possible with modern technology to support a job seeker outside your local JOB CENTRE

An adviser can cover a number of subjects with an internet enabled tablet including

• Sanctions
• Benefit eligibility
• Applying for benefits
• Benefit Calculator
• Universal Job Match
• Food Banks and Credit Unions
• Local Homess support
• Careers Advice
• local advice and much much more

It is possible to support East European Job seekers in a way that the Job centre (DWP) have not
Just making the pages available in the job seekers national language saves time and energy.

Most people classed as being in poverty 'have job' (Dec 2013)

Its  o longer just the unemployed that are struggling with the money...Part time and 0 hours contract employees face the same as the unemployed

Reaching out to the Unemployed at your Job centre

Over the last few years I have regularly reached out to Unemployed people at my local Job centre.
This has led to interesting interaction and stories that were very real. Often people had clearly not been provided with the Key support they needed and were mis informed.A solution is

for volunteers to be equipped with tablets to provide Job seekers with the information that they need. You might ask why DWP havent done this themselves. Well, one day they might but in the meantime............
With current government cut backs the challenge for staff of being well informed and providing the key information as it is required limits the job seeker to what they may be told
An example would be information on national support available locally. Here I am providing a possible solution at low cost. Much of the information and support that claimant s need is already available on line and with a degree of knowledge of understanding as to its location can be found. Drastically reducing a number of the issues that Job seekers may have and reducing the work and time that charities put into meeting job seekers. A tablet can produce the internet access required and the links to the information that can save time and resource in a cost effective way reducing time wasting. and appointments.. So could this be a solution that local Church and Community groups could support. Maybe even sponsor.
From the Job benefit claim to the Tax credit information or other forms of guidance.