Category Archives: Universal Credit

Two Hundred Mill On IT Kit – In and Out ‘The Eagle’ -That’s the Way Our Money Goes

Posted on September 4, 2013 by fanofootball

‘Universal credit: Upwards of £270m has already been spent on government IT contracts. However, UC’s new project director Howard Shiplee has ordered a complete rethink and ordered a thorough redesign of current software.’????? http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/04/universal-credit-it-programme-benefits More tea NLAT? I am minded … Continue reading →

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Posted in Bloggers Having Their Say, DWP, Economy Train Wreck, FibDems, How to Identify Tories, Ian Disorganised Duncan Smith, Job Centre Plus, Men of Non-Business, Psychopaths, Social Engineering, The Importance of Being Awkward - Tam Dalyell, Truth Movement, Uncategorized, Universal Credit, Various Suspicious Operations, Watford Coalition of Resistance | Tagged Department for Work and Pensions, Howard Shiplee, Iain Duncan Smith, IDS tells the Today programme that those in charge of IT for universal credit "did not make the correct decisions" BBC News, Nursery rhyme, Pop Goes the Weasel, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Universal, Universal Credit | 1 Comment

The Chaos Behind That Flagship Universal Credit Scheme

Posted on August 4, 2013 by fanofootball

Universal Credit staff describe chaos behind scenes of flagship Tory reform ‘A leaked internal survey of scores of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) employees working on the government’s flagship Universal Credit programme describes an environment of poor management and … Continue reading →

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Posted in Anti Cuts Movement, Bullingdon Bureaucrats, Cockroaches, DWP, Election 2015, Guardian, How to Identify Tories, Ian Disorganised Duncan Smith, Men of Non-Business, NLAT, Truth Movement, Uncategorized, Universal Credit, Watford Coalition of Resistance | Tagged Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, Howard Shiplee, Iain Duncan Smith, politics, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Stephen Timms, Tory, Universal Credit | 2 Comments

WatchingA4E Reports In March That IDS’s Knitting Is Unravelling

Posted on June 13, 2013 by fanofootball

IDS appears to have dropped several stitches during the grand Tory knit-a-thon which was designed to create a new garment to be worn by UK Society. Not only that, but the pattern has proved to be more complex than first … Continue reading →

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Posted in A4E, Anti Cuts Movement, Bedroom Tax, Bloggers Having Their Say, DWP, FibDems, How to Identify Tories, Ian Disorganised Duncan Smith, Independent Media, ITEC News, Job Centre Plus, The Danger in Being a Child, Truth Movement, Universal Credit, Watford Coalition of Resistance | Tagged a link to the "scorecard" - a league table by any other name - and full accounts by two different JCP staff on how the system works - The figures are interesting; 85000 sanctions in January alone - wi, a pity if the user-unfriendly nature of the web "Tabtool" by which the DWP publishes the relevant statistics were to allow Freud to get away with this gross misstatement, A4E on Film admit to being on a Global Agenda., are Duncan Smith; Mark Hoban; Lord Freud and Neil Couling (the Jobcentre Plus manager) knowingly telling porkies?, Arts, as the copy of the pattern was apparently altered by some pranksters from Leeds Council and Frank Field MP. Oh Dear., Ashton-under-Lyne, Ashton-under-Lyne will be the first Jobcentre to accept claims for Universal Credit, Clothing, Craft, David Freud Baron Freud, DWP Scoreboard contains precise information about how jobcentre districts are performing on stopping people's benefits, Ealing Council in west London has suggested that families hit by the bedroom tax could foster a child to avoid losing benefit., FibDem Leader Nick Clegg spins away in the background c, Further problems for IDS now, guardian figuring-out-jobseeker-sanctions, guardian jobcentre-scorecard-areas-stopping-benefits, House of Lords, Iain Duncan Smith, IDS, IDS appears to have dropped several stitches during the grand Tory knit-a-thon which was designed to create a new garment to be worn by UK Society., independent bedroom-tax-will-hurt-most-vulnerable-say-housing-associations-as-london-council-suggests-affected-couples-foster-a-child-to-avoid-losing-housing-benefit-, independent not-so-universal-credit-government-puts-the-brakes-on-trials-of-its-controversial-new-benefits-programme, James Purnell, Job Centre Plus "league table" breaks down the sanctions performance by district and includes a column headed "direction of travel" with red and green arrows showing whether a district is up or down o, Knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Lord Freud, National Housing Federation David Orr Chief Executive, Overall therefore the coalition government has shifted monthly sanctions to a level more than 60% above that of its predecessor., Pattern, Paul Gregg, Tory, Universal Credit, Walthamstow Job Centre is "95th in the league table"., WatchingA4E Reports In March That IDS's Knitting Is Unravelling, Yarn, Yvette Cooper | Leave a comment

UC Trial Launched With Only A Few Claimants

Posted on May 28, 2013 by fanofootball

26 April 2013 ‘Only a few dozen people are expected to claim benefits using the government’s flagship new universal credit scheme when it is launched on Monday and the total number who will qualify will be limited to 300 a … Continue reading →

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Posted in ATOS, Bloggers Having Their Say, DWP, Guardian, How to Identify Tories, Ian Disorganised Duncan Smith, ITEC News, NLAT, Universal Credit | Tagged April 2013, Ashton-under-Lyne, Department for Work and Pensions, guardian universal-credit-pilot-launch, Iain Duncan Smith, Lisp, Monday, Programming, Scheme, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Universal Credit, Universal Credit IT glitches - How has this project been allowed to get this point without something as simple as a save function being included?, Welfare | Leave a comment

Fraud Fears Mount Over Welfare Changes

Posted on April 3, 2013 by fanofootball

A report by the Communities and Local Government Committee highlighted several concerns about Universal Credit. ‘One council told the committee its understanding was that the system would not work from local authority property databases so it would not be able … Continue reading →

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Claiming UC by App and JSA Online

Posted on March 7, 2013 by fanofootball

This Conservative member who spent a great deal of his presentation time waving his hand about like a paint brush. Made me think that the Tories subliminally wish to erase the unemployed and the benefits claimants from the landscape with … Continue reading →