Tag Archives: DWP

Benefit fraud accounts for just 0.7 per cent of welfare budget, official figures show

By James Bloodworth | Published: May 9, 2013

The latest report estimates fraud and error levels in the benefit system in Great Britain, published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today, found that benefit fraud accounts for just 0.7 per cent of the welfare budget.

Posted in Good Society | Also tagged benefit fraud, tax avoidance, TUC, Welfare | Leave a comment

Unofficial figures show 70% on Work Programme still jobless after a year

By Shamik Das | Published: November 27, 2012

Ahead of the official publication of Work Programme Outcome Statistics by ONS this morning, ministers have been preparing the ground for low expectations.

Posted in Good Society | Also tagged Iain Duncan Smith, statistics, work programme | 27 Responses

Atos, Tory cuts and a diasbled man driven to hunger strike

By Dan Holden | Published: November 9, 2012

Atos Healthcare, the company appointed by the government to test whether disabled people are ‘fit to work’, is at the epicentre of dogmatically-driven tragedy.

Posted in Good Society | Also tagged ATOS, benefits, Christos Palmer, Disabled People Against The Cuts | 10 Responses

The nasty department: DWP threaten to take disabled children away from parents

By Shamik Das | Published: August 2, 2012

The DWP is sending out threatening, menacing letters to disabled parents, ordering them to do as they say or risk having their children taken into care.

Posted in Good Society | Also tagged disability, Disability Living Allowance, disabled rights, IDS, nasty party, nasty Tories | 60 Responses

The government’s Work Programme (still) isn’t working

By Ben Phillips | Published: July 9, 2012

New ONS figures reveal that the number of long-term unemployed has more than doubled since May 2010: a new milestone in the Work Programme’s litany of failure.

Posted in Sustainable Economy | Also tagged Chris Grayling, Iain Duncan Smith, jobseekers, unemployment, work programme, Workfare | 19 Responses

As the coalition attacks relative child poverty, here’s a list of mythbusting facts

By Ben Phillips | Published: June 14, 2012

As the DWP publishes its annual Households Below Average Income figures, coalition policies are cancelling out a decade’s progress in tackling child poverty.

Posted in Clean Politics | Also tagged child poverty, Child Poverty Action Group, Iain Duncan Smith, IDS, Institute for Fiscal Studies, poverty, relative income | 30 Responses

After Jubileegate: Five reasons why the Work Programme gets it wrong

By Ben Phillips | Published: June 6, 2012

The scandal surrounding the exploitation of unpaid stewards at the jubilee celebrations is the latest object lesson in the Work Programme’s many systemic flaws.

Posted in Clean Politics | Also tagged economics, exploitation, jubileegate, Unpaid work, work programme, Workfare | 34 Responses

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