Who are the lying thieving bastards - the disabled unemployed? .. or Triage?

[BankFodder]

BBC Panorama reveals how a company which has been tasked to help long-term disabled unemployed back to work - exploits those people and increases their profits by keeping them out of work by "parking them".

 

On paper, Linda Smith's job with an Aberdeen company was straight-forward - she was meant to be helping the long-term unemployed - many of them disabled - to find jobs and move off benefits.

The reality, she said, was a corporate culture that saw staff in training sessions referring to those same people as LTBs - code for "lying, thieving bastards".

"That is how they are referred to," she said of the clients of Triage, which is a key player in the government's ambitious plan to pay private companies to move people from benefit into work.

They haven't done a single thing to help me in any way”

Tony Wilson Long-term unemployed

There are 2.5m long-term sick and disabled unemployed people in the UK. The cost to the taxpayer is £13bn a year.

The government's £5bn Work Programme has identified 68,000 disabled people in receipt of incapacity benefit who it believes can work.

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And of course, this is all facilitated by poor monitoring procedures. It's all about the "look-good" factor.

[Nystagmite]

This the one that's on at 8.30 tonight?

[citizenB]

Did anyone watch this ?

 

It appears that many support groups and charities were asked by the likes of Triage and A4E if they would be prepared to offer advice and support and the likes of RNIB are now saying they were used by these companies as they have not had any referrals.

 

Why couldnt the money given to these Back to Work companies have been given to the Support groups, who already have a sound knowledge of the requirements of disabled people ?

 

The minister interviewed ducked and dived the reporter's questions as could be expected.

 

They interviewed 3 people with mental health issues - one of whom said he had been helped the other 2 have probably been set back years by the attitude of the Back to work companies.

 

A blind lady was interviewed - she said her appointments were constantly being rescheduled and then cancelled

 

The whistleblower was extremely believable.

 

Out of 58,000 referrals, only about 1,000 have been found work !!

 

Panorama have passed over their findings to the committee who are investigating the Back to work programmes.