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@9362 | 22 June 15 | |
He's not a robin hood,he was stealing our money.
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@9362 | 22 June 15 | |
Money perhaps destined for other claimants?so stealing from the poor?
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@bozzalad | 22 June 15 | |
it was the judges comment i found amusing digits
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@bozzalad | 23 June 15 | |
Iain Duncan Smith claims 200,000-strong campaign to reveal Tory benefits deaths is 'disgraceful', He's fighting a legal battle to keep the figures secret - yet the Work and Pensions Secretary claims Labour MPs are just 'frightening people'
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@bozzalad | 23 June 15 | |
More than 200,000 people have signed an online petition by ex-welfare advisor Maggie Zolobajluk, 63, calling for the figures to be made public. But instead of addressing it he's made a furious attack on Labour, two of whose MPs rounded on him in the Commons yesterday.
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@bozzalad | 23 June 15 | |
MP Marie Rimmer asked him: May I ask again why the Government are refusing to publish - even though the Information Commissioner has instructed them to do so - the up-to-date statistics relating to the number of people who have died, having been found fit for work at their face-to-face assessment? Mr Duncan Smith replied: I find it absurd that Opposition Members deliberately try to misrepresent what happens under such schemes.
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@bozzalad | 23 June 15 | |
He also claimed his department 'doesn't collate the numbers' at all - appearing to fly in the face of his own officials' advice. His civil servants have openly admitted they collect the data, have published it before, and are planning to publish more in the future. Read the full ruling here. The Coalition's welfare changes saw people told to find work despite having chronic illnesses - some of whom died before getting their benefits back.
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@bozzalad | 23 June 15 | |
The request to release the figures was made under the Freedom of Information Act by campaigner Mike Sivier. He asked how many people who died between November 2011 and May 2014 had been found 'fit for work', or told they could move towards getting work. DWP chiefs said they were preparing to publish the information in their own time, and it'd be unfair to rush them - but Information Commissioner Christopher Graham ruled they'd acted unreasonably.
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@dodgey | 23 June 15 | |
@ bozzalad - 23.06.15 - 07:38pm MP Marie Rimmer asked him: May I ask again why the Government are refusing to publish - even though the Information Commissioner has instructed them to do so - the up-to-date statistics relating to the number of people who have died, having been found fit for work at their face-to-face assessment? Mr Duncan Smith replied: I find it absurd that Opposition Members deliberately try to misrepresent what happens under such schemes. Rimmer, what a name |
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@bozzalad | 23 June 15 | |
Jack Back said, Iain Duncan Smith Claimed 100 for a packet of wet wipes according to the IPSA web site. Tell me where you need to pay 100 for wet wipes, and why an MP would make such a stupid error with his taxpayer funded expense account. He admitted to claiming benefits while living ILLEGALLY with his partner Betsy before they got married so we all know what a crook IDS is dont we.
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