Given today’s
evidence that there are targets to increase sanctioning people’s
social security at all costs, it is time to put the charities who
help that happen on the spot.
In the last month, thanks to your
action, five charities have said they will no longer take part in Workfare Schemes: Sense, PDSA, Capability Scotland, Sue Ryder and the
Red Cross. The Children’s Society has also pledged not to use Workfare.
This means the Workfare Schemes which
rely on charity placements are on the rocks! Already before the
latest withdrawals, the government
complained: “The high profile withdrawal of placements from
a number of larger charities meant a sharp reduction in placements.”
One in five people sent on mandatory
work activity in charity shops face
destructive sanctions (benefit stoppages) of three or six months.
The charities still involved are profiting from making people poorer.
Let’s tell them it’s time to pull out!
Contact details for Workfare charities
including TCV and the British Heart
Foundation
here:
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