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Fraud at welfare-to-work company A4e

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article And this sleazy rag bag organisation is still getting Government (our) money

What is the real unemployment figure?

Ever since the 1980's the Government have been lying in their presentation of unemployment figures. It was then that anyone claiming benefit would only be counted for 12 months. After 12 months they would be removed from the unemployment figure and moved into another category. Not because they had actually found a job, but because the figures would look better for the Government of the day.Each month since then, thousands were removed from the figures and initially at least were placed on the "Claiming Incapacity Benefit" list which does not count as unemployed.The real figure of unemployed in this country can only be guessed at, but which by now, must be running at close to 4 million.

A4e gets two new state contracts worth up to £30m

  Despite-string-fraud-probes-A4e-gets-new-state-contracts This is unbelievable!! A company under police investigation, under MP's investigation and DWP investigation is STILL getting Government Contracts, and OUR money! The current contracts should be suspended and no new contracts awarded until all investigation have been completed. Who ever is responsible for this decision should be suspended immediately and an investigation should be initiated into how this decision was reached and whether there are any other more sinister considerations.

36 Remploy factories to close

Factory-jobs-for-disabled-lost-as-grants-are-ended.html The day after the euphoria of 2000 jobs being created at Nissan comes the news that GM plan to close their Ellesmere Port plant in 2014 with a threat to 2800 jobs and now 36 Remploy factories offering work for disabled people are to close, with the loss of more than 1,700 jobs. No matter what feeble mealy mouthed excuses the Minister for disabled people, Maria Miller, may trot out after being forced to make an emergency statement to the House of Commons, the fact remains that this is nothing more than another sacrificial lamb on the alter of Government Expenditure Cuts in order to "save" money, no matter what the real cost happens to be in terms of finance or human hardship. Justifying this latest blow to the people of this country as "diverting funding away from the loss-making business into job creation schemes for disabled people in the mainstream workplace". Is crass and patronising. In a time of high u...