Hints and tips:
...Officials previously were able to assess claimants on their “physical appearance and demeanour” if they seemed over 25 but that was dropped to 18 after a recent Supreme Court judgment....
...There are some quick wins here, even if you don’t want to touch things that we know work well overseas but are politically contentious at Westminster, such as ID cards....
...Ms Coffey told the work and pensions committee the department was unable to suspend ID checks....
...Lawyers for the African country argued P&ID was pursuing its sovereign assets, which it could not surrender to a private claimant under sovereign immunity, something fiercely contested by P&ID, which claimed...
...Nigerian officials said they expected to claim “sovereign immunity” in the case, arguing that the country cannot be forced to surrender sovereign assets to a private claimant....
...According to councils and the police, the fraudsters use fake ID cards and claim to be Jobcentre workers, or pose as intermediaries charging a fee....
...Big Brother Watch, a privacy campaign group, said on Monday that users had been given no choice whether to opt out, and had therefore been “railroaded into a mass ID scheme”....
...“Around 10 to 20 per cent of people didn’t have IDs before, and many people had other not very good IDs, like ration cards, which don’t identify each family member,” says Nandan Nilekani, the billionaire...
...To date, the top court has only been willing to overturn gerrymandering when it concludes the motive is racial driven — which the claimants have been attempting to show was the case in Georgia’s districts...
...A smaller panel of judges will decide separately on whether the government can force benefits claimants to sign up for the identification scheme, or whether this would breach the newly enforced right to...
...After nearly two years of waiting, Bohai found out in February that he was not part of the 3 per cent of non-EU claimants recognised by the government as a slavery victim....
...As the digitisation process gathered pace, it not only knocked out sham claimants but also started to give identities to thousands of real humans who had previously been invisible....
...Benefit claimants living overseas Over the past decade, EU migrants have claimed child benefit in Britain to support up to 40,000 children living outside the UK....
...“IDS” leaving the cabinet is not Michael Jackson leaving The Jacksons....
...The DWP’s own figures show that EU accession countries hardly figure in the list of benefit claimants, who are much more likely to come from India, Pakistan, Somalia or Bangladesh....
...As I revealed in my last post, the way they have framed the debate in terms of cracking down on feckless, overpaid benefits claimants, has left the opposition in a quandary about how they can oppose the...
...IDS must come clean today about whether the triple lock is government policy now and next year. Or is it going to be another broken promise?...
...IDS wants instead to roll council tax benefits into the universal credit so it reflects claimants’ earning status. So far this argument has been conducted in private....
...id=7358 Kevin Daly, Goldman Sachs: We expect output growth to be stronger in 2013 and the unemployment rate to be broadly flat....
...The IDS team hope that in most cases the life-changes (such as the birth of a child or a rise in hours) will see incomes rise, even if it doesn’t rise to the level of the old system....
...It should save on administration, fraud and error, and make life easier for claimants. * Single adults reliant on benefits, and very low paid primary earners in a couple, will see stronger incentives to...
...Namely: 1] How much will it cost to find the work and ensure that claimants are carrying it out? Bear in mind that there are now 1.5m people on Jobseekers’ Allowance....
...So, with the Conservatives, long-term benefit claimants who fail to find work will be required to ‘work for the dole’ on community work programmes. anyone on jobseeker’s allowance who refuses to join the...
...other “dynamic benefits” not included in the model. 2) Fraud savings offset by better take-up: Expected savings of £2bn on tackling fraud will be smaller than the £2.6bn of extra spending expected as more claimants...
...She also got the bank sort code and the last four digits of the bank account number of another claimant....
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