HOW THE UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE MONEY SPENDED!

When The Hackney’s job centre sent the worker to the working links.

They sent you the training mostly the computer.Which is Cost £4000 pounds for this the self study without the teachers in The dusty , dirty room and dark

the class room.

You could get one CD form £5 any good a computer shop SO The working Links With many fear they get as the company £ 3995 pounds The PROFIT.

Also other company like NEW THE METROPOLITAN COLLEGE IS MOSTLY

SENT TO LEARN ENGLISH BUT THE TEACHERS THEY DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH .

BUT IN THE COLLEGE MANY MILLIONS SPEND FOR THE GOVERNMENT PARTY AND THE SPORTER PARTIES .ALL MONEY ALLOCATED FOR THE IMMIGRANT WORKERS TROWED AWAY..

NOW IS THE TIME TO STOP TO TELL THE LIES ABOUT THEY MONEY USED FOR THEM.Respect and justice all workers

WE HAVE TO LIFE TO life to live to  !!!!

Waiting for 10 weeks

From ‘Pete’:

I have been unemployed for 2 years, my age 56.  I had heard of New Deal and requested many times to be included in New Deal, but they kept fobbing me off.  One day my personal advisor at Hoxton Job Centre got out of bed the wrong side, inspite of me providing jobs I had applied for, plus my voluntary work contribution, he decided to tell me I had not done enough to seek employment, consequently my claim was suspended.  I wrote to Gordon Brown, whereupon an enquiry was held.  The managers of the job centre were amazed that I had not been offered New Deal, their remedy was to send me to working links.

Working Links is a joke within itself.  Once again I was assigned a personal advisor, the first five weeks I was told not to return until my personal advisor had completed his paternity leave.  On completing his paternity leave, I had a complete session with him, we must have sent 15 C.V.s.  The following weeks I was required to report weekly,  generally he was too busy to see me, therefore no conversation was entered into.  Months went by, indeed he made an interview time with me and did not even bother to turn up.  The last time I saw my personal advisor, he wished to see me on a Wednesday, inspite of the fact that my voluntary was on a wednesday, he being well aware of this.  I arrived on time, the personal advisor on the phone talking to friends.  I am called to his attention 30 mins late, whereat he informs me that I have to go the computers and look for jobs.  Once again I inform him that wednesday is my volunteer day and that I am needed there, he insists, I remonstrate.  He then states that he does not have to see me, I walk out to my volunteer work and return to working links after 15.00 hrs, when my volunteer work has finished.

On returning to working links I find they have stopped my benefit.  I speak with the manager, but to no effect.  No one informs me of the process I have to go through thereon.  I wait until my benefit is due, no money, I then sign on at the Hoxton Job Centre.  The length of time to renew one’s claim is from the time of signing on, you are given a date to attend the job centre, my date was one week after the initial telephone call.  After my interview at the job centre, it took eight days to place my claim onto the computer, it takes a further eleven days before they will consider processing my claim.  My claim is to be considered for processing 5h  October, I have been waiting since 28th August.  I believe that 10 weeks is too long for a claim to be recognised and maybe payment issued.

“The shit over there”

From ‘lola’:

I was in Peckham Jobcentre and I overheard one of the staff members describe the clients as “the shit over there”. This is the kind of attitude and mentality some of the Job centre staff have.

‘You don’t look sick – you’re wearing hair gel!’

From ‘notsickenough’:

I went in to get my employment support allowance – I had a doctors note and everything else I needed. The woman at the desk looked at me and said: ‘you don’t look sick – you’re wearing hair gel!’ and refused to give me anything.

I needed the money – my wife’s pregnant. When I said this the staff said, ‘you’re unemployed so why did you let your wife get pregnant?’

Unbelievable – everytime we go they speak to us like this.

From a Hackney claimant

The Manager of the Hackney Jobcentre was overheard on the 30^th July telling one of our local unemployed workers who he was dealing with, that if any of his staff are too friendly and helpful with the claimants he gets rid of them.

So helping you and giving you the benefits you are legally entitled to, is not what they are trying to achieve there.

This is the clearest indication yet of the culture of intimidation and lack of respect you can expect to find at the Hackney Jobcentre. This is from the man who hires and fires his staff until he has just the right kind of people working for him, who are going to do their level best to mess you around and catch you out at every possible turn.  If they can kick you off Jobseekers allowance and stop your benefits altogether then that is a good day for them.

In fact knocking people off of Jobseekers allowance for any reason they can find is what they are trying to do.

What are we doing here?

This site has been set up by unemployed workers / claimants to share our gripes and all the nonsense we get at the Jobcentre. With record unemployment people all around the country are dealing with the same shit and getting treated badly on a daily basis. This is a place we can share our stories, work out ways to support, defend one another and develop a united voice.