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Companies responsible for the government's controversial employment scheme have neglected disabled jobseekers to focus on easier-to-help claimants, a report revealed today.
The public accounts committee analysed the performance of work programme providers and established that a whopping 90 per cent of employment and support allowance claimants across the country were yet to find work.
Committee chair Margaret Hodge said: "Evidence shows that differential payments have not stopped contractors from focusing on easier-to-help individuals and parking harder-to-help claimants, often those with a range of disabilities including mental health challenges.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE