Sentences with word «jobcentre»

The rollout of the so - called «full service» across the UK will start this month for all new claimants in jobcentres in Newcastle upon Tyne, Lowestoft, Rugby, Bath, and Bridgewater, and will take more than two years to complete.

«Universal Credit is rolling out successfully and is available in 95 % of jobcentres with over 32,000 people making a claim to it last month.»

The area was due to move to a «full service» of Universal Credit in July but that was put on hold until October to allow local jobcentre staff to focus on claims from survivors of Grenfell.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: «Cutting jobcentre staff and closing offices makes absolutely no sense and shows this government has no credible plan for getting our economy back on track.

Jobseekers have to attend meetings at jobcentres where they will have to account more clearly for their efforts to find work.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: «It is madness to close jobcentres when unemployment is rising just to save a few quid on the rent.

According to feedback from 140 HMRC workplaces about 85 % of its workforce, did not attend work today, and an office in St Helens, Merseyside was closed, while 90 % of PCS members in the Department for Work and Pensions were out on strike, with many jobcentres closed or services severely disrupted.

In it, staff from Jobcentres talk to schools» career leads to «design interventions that fit» pupils» particular needs, and work directly with them on their work skills or develop CVs.

He said that people who had been unemployed for more than three years would have to work for their dole, attend jobcentres daily to search for employment or accept help for underlying problems such as illiteracy or drug dependency.

Universal Credit attracted widespread support because it was originally designed to simplify the benefit system and improve work incentives, with a new cadre of frontline jobcentre work coaches assisting more claimants to prepare for and seek work.

Despite a formal public consultation the offices in major cities including London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Cardiff are to close, including award - winning jobcentres such as Camberwell where 2,000 local people signed a petition against its closure.

Steve Hilton, the prime minister's strategy director, reportedly also proposed abolishing jobcentres and replacing hundreds of government press officers with a single blogger for each department.

Jobcentres rarely help solve people's problems on the spot.

«With thousands more unemployed workers entering jobcentres, single parents are unlikely to get the personalised support they will need if they are to find jobs.

A long read on the decimation of British jobcentres — and why it puts the rollout of Universal Credit at risk.

Jobseekers in England, Scotland and Wales will have to use a new government website that can automatically tell jobcentres about their applications - or risk losing their benefit payments.

It is also unfair to ask jobcentre staff, who are already overstretched because of cuts, to police decisions about who should have their benefits cut.

The planned closure of 20 jobcentres announced to staff this morning (19) by the Department for Work and Pensions is «unthinkable and irresponsible» at a time of high unemployment, says the Public and Commercial Services union.

The Public and Commercial Services Union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK, announced by the Department for Work and Pensions today.

Missed appointments at Jobcentres cost # 16 million last year, a new report from the financial watchdog has found.

It announced it had reached the «historic milestone» of making UC available to single claimants in every UK jobcentre and was preparing a phased rollout to all claimants, including families with children.

The DWP published no rationale for the closure of individual jobcentres.

Then, between 2002 and 2006, under the New Labour government, some 1,500 previously separate jobcentres and benefit agency offices were integrated into a network of 800 Jobcentre Plus (JCP) offices.

Getting online — Cornwall Council is working with Jobcentres in Cornwall to provide support for people who need extra help to make and maintain their claim online.

«Cornwall Council has been working closely with local Jobcentres to ensure that there is help and support available for those who may have difficulties when they start claiming Universal Credit.

I mean I have travelled round so many Jobcentres talked to so many of them.

By the end of 2018, most new working age claimants in Britain, will be claiming Universal Credit — and many of them will be required to attend jobcentres.

There are around 320 employment offices, which are the equivalent of jobcentres in the UK.

I attended a meeting where her jobcentre adviser argued against paying her the housing component because her letting agent's name and landlord's name didn't match on her paperwork.

«It took so long to hear back that I went down my local jobcentre, but nobody knew what was going on,» Judy says.

«Universal Credit is already making work pay in one in ten jobcentres and will be rolled out nationally from next year,» a spokesperson said.

The union is hosting a public meeting this evening (13) against the closure of the jobcentre in Camberwell, south London.

«Universal Credit is in every jobcentre and UC claimants are moving into work faster and staying in work longer than under the old system.

As immigration controls are integrated in an increasingly systematic way into the workplace, university, school, hospital, jobcentre, letting agency, registry office and bank they are pushed away from the centralised state and into the community.

50's women who have reached or are nearing 60 have had no time to change their plans, many finding themselves unemployed and in the clasp of the jobcentre with workfare, work programmes, working for their benefits as they are claiming Job seekers allowance, or they find themselves on ESA and its strict regime of sanctions.

We have already seen the damaging impact of so called efficiency programmes on key areas such as tax, Jobcentres, justice and defence.

He assures us that by the end of this year one in eight jobcentres will be offering universal credit and that by 2017 more than a million should be on the system.

Those of us who regularly attend housing and jobcentre meetings see this too often.

Perhaps, but it's not often you see the ex-wife of a top banker queuing up at the jobcentre to claim benefits or the former partner of a politician or lawyer waiting outside a food bank.

«For years our union has been at the forefront of the tax justice campaign, and we are proud to support UK Uncut that has popularised our message that the real fraudsters and the real scroungers are to be found in the boardrooms not in the jobcentres.

This comes as ministers are reviewing the jobcentre network as a whole and the union fears there is a risk they will decide to close more jobcentres, particularly in rural areas.

The biggest co-ordinated public sector strike for a generation has been well supported across the UK with many courts, airports, jobcentres and tax offices closed or severely disrupted.

Last month the Guardian revealed a full - time bar worker was fined # 220 after she missed a jobcentre appointment to go on a family holiday.

The already intense pressure on a shrinking network of jobcentres will increase further in 2019 when the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will begin moving millions of existing benefit claimants onto Universal Credit.

Parliamentary scrutiny intensified from December 2016 when the DWP proposed closing half of Glasgow's 16 jobcentres.

Since the 1970s, the logo, layout and operating procedures of jobcentres have changed markedly.

In practice, benefit cuts have weakened work incentives and simplification, while more working age claimants are being pushed towards a smaller network of jobcentres.

Money management — Cornwall Council is working with Jobcentres in Cornwall to provide advice and guidance on managing money and living within a monthly budget.