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Learning/literacy difficulties & can’t use online Universal Credit? “Find a friend to help,” says DWP. This is dire

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Post by echidna Thu Oct 12, 2017 1:22 pm

Learning/literacy difficulties & can’t use online Universal Credit? “Find a friend to help,” says DWP. This is dire
http://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/10/learningliteracy-difficulties-and-cant-use-the-online-universal-credit-erm-find-a-friend-to-help-says-dwp-so-much-for-support-this-is-dire/

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Post by Absolut Fri Oct 13, 2017 8:39 am

I would normally say

what we would normally recommend

The above indicates that there are procedures outside the "normal" ones.

Obviously, we’re always going to be making allowances for people who have got difficulties

I see nothing "obvious" about it. The DWP and JCP staff openly breach the Equality Act.

In general terms, there’s not a lot of maintenance to do really, because the system sort of self maintains most of the detail.

Use of "really" and "sort of" says otherwise.

the system will download their earnings automatically, so people aren’t reporting anything.

Incorrect. The "system" will only download RTI if the employer has sent it to HMRC to begin with.

we always have the phone option here available

Failing to mention that it costs 45p per minute if you aren't on a phone plan.

As Kate says, it's not on, but I don't see the UC "method of application" changing at any time.
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Post by Caker Fri Oct 13, 2017 11:03 am

This appears to be a (covert) policy intention of reducing the number of eligible claimants who are able to apply. It is quite sinister.
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Post by Brutus Sun Oct 15, 2017 2:42 am

Caker wrote:This appears to be a (covert) policy intention of reducing the number of eligible claimants who are able to apply. It is quite sinister.


Are we kidding ourselves?
That has been the general trend from the accursed Thatcher's years.
Under blare it has slowed down a little but it has come back with a vengeance under Gordon Brown and carried on the winds by successive conservative governments ever since.

Not only progressively, more iniquitous laws have been passed but also the entire philosophy behind the formation of welfare state as a principle,  has been opposed.

The people in charge of administrative iniquitous law "reforms" have been chafing at their restraints. They have used all manner of extreme interpretations, lenience toward their own rule transgressors and purposeful underfunding to undermine the service.
At the end it is probably simply the appointment of ideologically hard men to the top positions.
If one thinks that the dole shouldn't exist, that for some warped moral justification, it is bad for or reduced as much as possible, one finds the way to impose one's views on the underlings.

If one add that their bosses agree with them and that part of the public opinion has been desensitised to their own conscience and rationality, we are looking at a slide that unchecked would lead to horrible conclusions.

We had a minister, IDS, that wanted to celebrate the  anniversaries of the imposition of the sanction regime and paid public money to actors to produce fake videos of supposed claimant thanking him for having been deprived of the pittance we receive (and interesting, nothing happened to him for this).  

The point is that if one put fanatics in position of power one get a fanatic's policy adaptation.

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