Changes to be announced to Signing-On: Workfare is Coming

There’s Money to be made out of Workfare!

This week people signing-on will have received (at least we did in Ipswich) a little note telling us that “restructuring” of these arrangements will be soon under way.

That we will be “required” to attend an “information” meeting on the changes.

To get a flavour of what these ‘changes’ may involve today johnny void   reveals today  (via Refuted) that,

“6 month Community Workfare: Commercial competition opens for business.”

As the Void says, “This new scheme represents 780 hours unpaid work, over two and a half times higher than the maximum community service penalty that can be handed out by the courts.  And this is just for the crime of being unable to find a job.”

Ipswich Unemployed Action.