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Topic History of: Save the DWP ? Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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andrew
MCR wrote: A load of staff were let go from my local DWP before Christmas.
Nice Christmas present for them - Not!
Sanctions are there to keep figures down. UC is a way of making people homeless and government's way of creating a genocide. We all know that work is getting harder to get and my contract is over.
Round here if you don't have a car you're fucked.
Will food banks survive along with Citizens Advice ?
IT systems are now getting unreliable and all the computers only exist in films.
MCR
A load of staff were let go from my local DWP before Christmas.
Nice Christmas present for them - Not!
SP17
Not jobs - but better efficiency
The days of talking to a human are getting rarer
Even the voice tells you - 'when you are finished, you may hang up'
honey!oh sugar sugar.
andrew wrote: IDS wants to shut down the DWP by 2020. Thousands of staff could be out of a job, no mention of a plan B and jobs are being replaced by computers.
Well, by all accounts the staff don't seem to actually "do" much. Do they?
andrew
IDS wants to shut down the DWP by 2020. Thousands of staff could be out of a job, no mention of a plan B and jobs are being replaced by computers.