Posts by skwalker1964

Bogus gov online test tells people on dole they're just SO employable

Re: so what?

This was EXACTLY the same as being "cut off" - take this test of we'll sanction your benefits.

There are 2.5m unemployed people and less than 500,000 jobs for them to fill. Even assuming there is a suitably-skilled person to fill every vacancy, that's still more than 2m people for whom there is no job, no matter how much they want one.

Typical closed-minded right-wing thinking. :(

Re: Essex

Yes they did - which is another outright lie, since the instruction letter to take this test was given to a claimant some 300 miles north of there.

Re: Is this The Register...

From my reseatch on the topic, it appears that the council tax thing was a case of, er, 'overclaiming' by the BIT. The changes were planned before they got involved and would have happened anyway..

Re: Applied Placebo Effect?

You've forgotten one (should really be #1):

Terrify applicant by threatening to sanction their benefits if they don't comply.

That's what makes this really sinister - and probably illegal, since the 'jobseekers' direction' doesn't even meet the DWP's own validity criteria: http://skwalker1964.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/dwp-fake-psych-test-order-illegal-according-to-dwp/