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Govt & Torygraph distorting again – this time disability claims
Last year, I caught the Telegraph red-handed in a politically-driven smear campaign on the NHS, as it slipped up and left instructions to its sub-editors not to remove a damaging paragraph from a...
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Govt’s disability distortion even worse than it looked
More information on the government’s distortion of information on disability claims has come to light, thanks to a pointer from Declan Gaffney via Twitter. While the new information changes the focus...
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A tale of two Maggies
Today made me think of a couple of Westerns. In one of my favourites, Tombstone, a member of Curly Bill’s gang has been killed. Even though this gang of Cowboys has terrorised the town for years, the...
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The file the DWP doesn’t want you to see
Over the last couple of days I’ve uncovered how the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is conducting trials that force unemployed people to take a meaningless online ‘test’ (which gives you a...
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More DWP psy-torture of the vulnerable
Three of the most-read articles I’ve written since I began this blog were posted over the last 3 days: an article about ‘Maggie‘, a 29 year-old unemployed, semi-literate woman in my home town and the...
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DWP psych ‘test’ devised by US ‘torture guru’
I wrote last week about a bogus online personality ‘test’ of 48 questions that Jobcentre Plus is forcing claimants to complete on behalf of the DWP – bogus because whatever answers you select, or even...
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DWP fake psych ‘test’ order illegal – according to DWP
Last week, I exposed a fake personality ‘test’ that is being forced on unemployed people by the Department of Work and Pensions’ (DWP) Jobcentre Plus (JCP) centres. This ‘test’, which presented a...
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Three pictures that tell everything about this government
I came across three pictures this morning that speak volumes about this government – about its deceptiveness and its real agendas. The first, from the PCS union via Sue Jones’ excellent blog, nails the...
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DWP spanked by UKSA. Please help obtain a repeat for its ESA stats abuse
The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) has issued a new rebuke to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) for its abuse of statistics to misrepresent the effects of its benefits cap in forcing people...
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DWP calls benefit sanction ‘achievement’ and ‘positive outcome’
I’ve written much over the past couple of weeks about the DWP’s apparent determination to persecute unemployed benefit-claimants by forcing them to undergo activities and tests which are totally...
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DWP just can’t get its story straight re fake psych ‘test’
Last month, I revealed that the DWP was forcing jobseekers to take a fake psychometric ‘test’ – under threat of losing their benefits – as part of a sinister ‘behavioural control’ experiment on behalf...
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DWP: sanctions damaging, unfair, counterproductive. So it does more.
I’ve come across a remarkable document in the last few days – a report commissioned by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) on its own ‘Skills Conditionality’ pilot, in which it started to mandate...
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AT LEAST 100k a year hit by highest-level benefit sanctions
I’ve come across something which frightens me. As I wrote almost a week ago, one of the DWP’s (Department of Work and Pensions) own reports told it that sanctions were not only widely damaging, unfair...
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Major DWP UJM security flaw – but forces claimants to use anyway
Please circulate this as widely as you can. I think it is even more massive than the issue of the DWP’s fake ‘psychometric test’. There has been much attention in recent weeks on the Dept of Work and...
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The REAL unemployment figs: 84k FEWER in employment
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) published its latest employment figures this week. As usual, the government latched onto any remotely positive figure that it could spin as proof of its...
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Freud: Foodbank dunce – or devil?
Lord Freud, the millionaire government minister and former investment banker, has outraged many in the House of Lords and poverty campaigners by claiming that there is no link between the...
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Hoban’s letter on benefit ‘reforms’ rewrites history and the lexicon
Back again, following last nights excellent contribution from a reader with their email to David Cameron and Treasury Minister Sajid Javid, to the theme of responses from MPs and government ministers...
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DWP’s straw-grasping and contortions prove fake psych ‘test’ guilt
Regular visitors to this blog (and any Guardian reader) will be familiar with the fake psychometric ‘test’ the DWP and Cabinet Office were inflicting on unemployed people under threat of benefit...
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A response to Hoban’s ‘history re-write’
A couple of weeks ago, I published a letter from Tory Work & Pensions Minister Mark Hoban that attempted to rewrite history and redefine several words. For example, Hoban claimed that the...
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DWP minister Hoban gets JSA amount WRONG – and jobseeking unaffordable
What I’m about to share with you demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt the reckless, couldn’t-give-a-**** attitude of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) toward the people it is supposed to be...
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