If

[DrFilth]

with all the benefit sanctions if the food banks shut what are people supposed to do ?

what would you do if there are no jobs and you are hungry ?


http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/west-end-food-bank-saved-7130560

[DaisyNonna]

And who does the classing?
What is the definition of vulnerable?

[THECORBYLOON]

It's from DWP.

[DrFilth]

> JSA claimants can claim Hardship after two weeks of a sanction and those classed as being vulnerable can claim it from the start of the sanction. <

what happens to those on other benefits can they also claim or is it just the jsa ones that can get help ?

[Svejk]

Does anyone other than JSA claimants get sanctioned?

[DaisyNonna]

That does nothing to answer my question.

[DrFilth]

sorry DaisyNonna i do not know the answer to your question

[Svejk]

women with children=vulnerable
healthy single males=not
that sort of thing.

[THECORBYLOON]

Claimants are in a vulnerable group if they

Are pregnant.
Are looking after children.
Are single and looking after a 16 or 17 year-old.
Have a disability.
Have a long-term physical medical condition.
Are caring for someone who is long-term sick or disabled.
Are a young person who has left local authority care in the last three years.
Are aged 16 or 17, subject to certain rules.

[DrFilth]

DaisyNonna the lady near only gets some sort of payment because i think the cab office got the ss involved ( but it could have been the hospital)

[THECORBYLOON]

Claimants on ESA and Income Support can be sanctioned, ESA claimants can apply for Hardship.

[DrFilth]

and are they the ones that the council look after ?

[THECORBYLOON]

ESA Claimants use the same claim for Hardship Payments as JSA claimants.

[DrFilth]

it must be this one then because they have changed the way they issue the money

http://www.preston.gov.uk/yourservices/benefits-and-debt-advice/housing-and-council-tax-benefits/council-tax-support-exceptional-hardship-fund/

[mikey4444]

Over 60 Mush !

[THECORBYLOON]

DRFILTH that link is not about Hardship Payments. See here for more info, http://refuted.org.uk/2013/11/20/severesuffering/

[marje]

Article in Daily Mirror 14 May: Job Centre Whistleblower: We stitched up claimants. Detail about how advisers were bullied into 'setting claimants up to fail'. Appointments changed without informing claimants in time so they missed the new appointment. A dossier was given in a meeting to Ian Duncan Smith, Esther McVey and Neil Couling Head of Jobcentre Plus detailing the sanctions. Sorry can't add a link as this was taken from the paper on my iPad so can't link.

It makes very interesting reading.

[DrFilth]

this one marje

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stitching-up-claimants-part-job-says-3537051

[DrFilth]

THECORBYLOON thank you for that link i will have a read on the morrow.

[DrFilth]

> Last week Iain Duncan Smith met a whistle-blower who has worked for his Department for Work and Pensions for more than 20 years.

Giving the Secretary of State a dossier of evidence, the former Jobcentre Plus adviser told him of a “brutal and bullying” culture of “setting claimants up to fail”.

“The pressure to sanction customers was constant,” he said. “It led to people being stitched-up on a daily basis.” <


wonder if he will make 25 years ?

[marje]

That's the one DrF.