New Deal and Flexible New Deal Exposed

After 20 years of employment I was made redundant, for the past 3 years have been unemployed. I am being forced to go on a work placement, fortunately I have found my own, not in something I am trained in but a totally new field but I now find myself in dispute with Calder UK regarding expenses for this work placement, whilst they are happy to pay travel expenses, they are refusing to pay any lunch expenses claiming that I should be using my JSA for that. I have explained several times to them that money is tight and I skip lunch every day but the work placement I will be doing will be manual work which will mean I have to eat lunch. Am I wrong in thinking that they HAVE to pay all reasonable expenses and that lunch comes under that heading?

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Mr. X

Yes, I, and I’m sure a lot of ppl are reading and sympathising with your situation. I’m educated, well qualified and yet can find no work either (of any kind). The FND I am on have got my hopes up, lied to me, tried to throw me off the scheme and the levels to which they are prepared to go to do this appall me. It’s stressful. Looking at it longer term though, these providers seem to be on a slippery slope 2 and if the govt. of the day want to save cash, they will get the axe soon. Only bad thing, there will be MORE unemployed! The ‘workers’ at my FND are all panicking quietly, they KNOW there are no jobs. The ceiling with crash on them soon, the ‘businessmen’ who have launched these schemes will be the only ones laughing and walking away with tax payer’s cash. Don’t give up, your Mum loves and needs you, and I’m sure she thinks you’re a real hero in the circumstances. Keep going, things always change, even if it takes times.

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Hard man, unfortunately you aint got much choice yet again the giovernments recent spin making out everyone is a bludger and thief that claims benefits means alot of the uninformed public dont look so favourable on the unemployed.

WORKFARE is coming to these shores, designed to enslave the unemployed, destroy unions, break strikes, lower living standards effectively scrap minimum wage as you will be training for roughly £1.70 an hours if your lucky in other words supermarkets will get you to stack their shelves for six months and your still unempoloyed and only entitled to 64 pound, you don;’t turn up you get sanctioned no money, your rude, no money, you do anything unsupervised including the wwiping of your own backside and you get sanctioned and you get nothing. The name of the game is confom or die. My so called specialist advisor at Beaconncentre for the blind told me to stop whining my choice to sign on if i dont like it then i can F.O

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They have been otulawed bythe DWP but are you aware that the so called 3rd party providers mentioning no names aren’t bound by that and will in all probably pimp their own grannies if theirs a profit in it. and you say no you open yourself to a sanction from a quangos, They wantto know everything they want to be all intrusive they want to be nasty, threatening and generally little power mad hittlers that will shaft you over as soon as look at you.

OH AND YEAHDID I MENTION SOME OF THEM ARE PRETENDING TO BECHARITIES they are hurting thepeople they are supposed to help

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I am saddened to say yes you are expected to do everything right down to but not nescessarily including the wiping of the Jcp staff backsides for them.

They treat you liek crap, they keep you in the dark, they can sanction you on a whim, if you love this youll love flexible new deal, soon to be slave labour workfare your benefit, 30 hours workplacement you get travel maybe on a monthly or weekly basis reimbursement, 10 Hours to do your jobsearch, you are also expected to sign on, visit a 3rd party provider what will see you in all probability see you as a giant £ sign. During your time at these 3rd party places they will treat you like shit, generally threaten, intimidate and try to shaft you.

Hardman complain kick up a fuss visit your local mp, write letters. Secret to a better sign on experience remember they are just people designed to push paper work, if your rude with them they more likely to be rude to you.

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sadly charitable organisations have become tainted by their associations with business figures and their controversial statements regarding the unemployed,sir digby jones quoted here as being one example

Chairman of the Cancer Research UK Corporate Board. He is also a Fellow of UNICEF

http://www.cityspeakersinternational.co.uk/speakers/speaker_digby_jones.php

in a statement that the young unemployed should be staved back to work is both against interests of holding any position of prominence which should be totally neutral of such comments’ and should be considered a matter of immediate resignation.there are others too such as emma harrison and the british heart foundation links this to is a conflict of interests and potentially controversial,although gathering that this has now ceased.

the governments’ have sought to involve these groups in the hope that this will forward a pathway to employment in doing so its created an unacceptable abuse of charitable status due to the methods employed against those placed in its roles’/trust,instead of walking away from controversy charities’ perhaps unwittingly have allowed themselves to become embroiled in a damaging scandalous situation,this has applied not to just those on jobseekers but also those on incapacity benefit who are let down by these groups that are supposed to have sufferers they proport to support in name but have failed to stand against their mistreatment and downplaying of conditions by private medical and government hype with very improbable and unworkable plans .

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hi, its Retail, the lady she saw said 6-10 weeks but was unsure exactly of the length. My daughter has an appointment next monday to find out more about it. thank you for quick reply. Susan

Yes it has also helped me wise up and close down charitable donations. I don’t intend on ever EVER giving so called charities that are part of this new deal scheme or any further scheme like the coerced labour anymore of my money

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If they think I am working for £4 an hour, they can think again, I have been unemployed 3 months, I am a married man with a family,nobody, I repeat nobody is going to push me on some stupid scheme for this pittance. It is scandalous.

What about all these human rights foreigners can claim, us British have to like it or lump it.

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I attended New deal and on the last week I managed to get a work trail on the other side of London The very day I was meant to start my lovely unpaid job my new deal oyster card expired and so did my claim! I had to make a rapid reclaim and totally missed any chance of being successful on my work trial as zero money would not have paid for my travel let alone anything else!

After finally receiving my J.S.A 4 weeks later I received a phantom letter I did not receive I do not know if the postman was at fault or not but and I missed an interview luckily I appealed and they did not sanction me but 2 weeks ago I lost my job search book and they did sanction me! I have been 2 weeks so far with out money I had to sell my phone and now I cannot contact or be contacted by potential employers!

New deal raw deal theses 3rd party providers are providing nothing at all and making money from it! I was meant to be provided with a passport a c.i.s card and a suit but all I was offered was 12 pounds to go to Primark and get a suit and no I.d and no sweet f.a !

I have another 2 weeks with out money and I am have since lost contact rights with my 3 young children be cause I just cannot afford to see them and their mother has taken away my access! Who gave these people the power to mess up soo many lives? All I want is a job so I can maintain my relationship with my kids I am not lazy and job shy!

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I was job hunting on one of the major job sites the other week,online, totaljobs or reed, one of them anyway. The job that I saw advertised was for an adult performer in movies. In other words to be in dirty movies, is this the sort of jobs that should be advertised on mainstream job sites, I think not. If they think I am applying for a job like that, they have another thing coming.

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I get £64 JSA a week, no other benefits whatsoever,no tax credits for kids, no housing(my own house)no council tax help, nowt.My wife works fulltime, but only on minimum wage. I have been on the dole 3 months. Try to explain to the job centre staff you have not got the money for travelling every day, they do not want to know.
You are expected to catch buses for interviews to go here and there. You even are expected to go to a place just to pick up an application form now, they do not post them out half the time, am I supposed to fork out money all the time just to collect an application?? Fair enough if it was for an actual interview. The JC do not pay bus fairs just for collecting applications, only for interviews.

£64 – £10 for tobacco(my only treat) the rest more often than not goes towards household bills. Where am I supposed to find travel money for the week from that.

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this has been at the core heart of new deal and its continual spin offs’,providers while claiming to be charitable organisations have acted with utter contempt towards those placed or “mandatory referrals” from the job center as they are called and treated terribly,bullying threats to benefits’ and humiliation is at the center of the so called gateway to employment.people being imprisoned to claim their state right and forced to be manipulated right left and center are at its foundation.while glossy pamphlets and brochures follow a golden path to success,you feel as if you have been led up the garden path instead when the truth is exposed,your now better off then in the first place when it all comes to nothing.

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