Government jobs support plans ‘a mess’, DWP officials tell BBC

The BBC has been told that the government’s plan to speed up employment assistance to the people affected by changes in welfare benefits will be “unattainable”.

As part of the U-turn on welfare reforms, ministers are expected to rapidly track the £ 1BN support plan to use people, which was originally prescribed to 2029.

But officials of the Department of Work and Pension (DWP) said the system was “a mess” and that there were “only a handful of people” working in the program.

The DWP did not address the claims made by the authorities, but said that it took “decisive action” and “committed to increase employment and opportunities across the country”.

One of the major objectives of the government is to use more people to achieve its objective of increasing the economy to reduce the welfare bill and promote standard of living.

Ministers have argued that intensive job support will help those unemployed and kept £ 1BN aside to help the needy people.

But a senior profit officer told the BBC that the government did not have a “proper idea or well -organized program”.

He said, “There is not enough speed or passion to install the cheese,” he said.

The government initially expected to save £ 5BN in a year by 2030 through its welfare reforms, while slowing down the increase in people claiming profit. The benefits related to the health of the working-age cost £ 30BN in addition to no change by 2029.

But the government faced a growing rebellion from about 120 labor MPs on the proposed changes, so it decided to amend its plans.

Climbing means the main disability profit, the existing recipients of both personal freedom payments (PIPs), and the health element of the universal credit will continue to receive the health element they currently get.

Instead, the planned deduction will only hit future contenders.

U-turn means that £ 5BN is likely to be around £ 2.5bn to £ 3BN, which has increased the autumn budget and added speculation, given that Chancellor Rachel Reaves said in these cuts to help meet his self-installed financial rules.

A DWP official told the BBC that “not much has been done” because the government had announced its employment assistance scheme in March, saying that adequate job coaches were not being recruited.

Contracted employment assistance – where outdoor companies are hired to help to provide programs – it is also called behind the schedule, with inexpensive, low -profile employment schemes that are understood to be very large teams working on them.

The estimate within DWP for the number of people getting jobs is called “very little”.

A senior official said, “They are notorious to come to work because in many cases they have been out of the job market for some time and employers are not ready to take a chance on them.”

The rural parts of Cumbria exposed the challenges faced by the government. In the jurisdiction of the Cumbersland Council, which covers the north and west parts of the county, 51% of people on Universal Credit have no need to seek work, mainly for health reasons.

While the condition of physical health, such as arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions prevalent, has increased the increase in mental health conditions in recent years, such as bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression.

Colin Cox, director of Public Health at the Cumbersland Council, reported that many of these situations are very real – for example, the suicide rate is much higher than the average for England.

But he also argued that some “normal experiences” were high-medical.

“The solutions you bring forward are very different [than just] Setting an anti-depressant, “he said.

A government statement said that “one-time generation package of employment assistance” will guarantee that people with disabilities and people with health conditions on out-of-work benefits will be able to reach sequential work, health and skill support through new and existing programs “.

But with an analogous support, finding jobs in some areas can be challenging. The BBC examined its government’s job search website for work in three coastal cities in Cumbria – Maryport, Whitehaven and Workington.

Dozens of jobs were available, but more than half of them were in the field of care, what people could do, prohibiting it. Poor public transport is also a limited factor for people living in rural areas.

Karen Jones, who runs the Goodlive Charity in Clater Moore, helps about 200 people in a year, said “confidence is a great thing” when people were looking for work.

“It can be difficult to bring them into employment and once they get a job, we maintain contact for six months.

“If you have never worked before, this is a very weak time when you get your first job and it can be a difference between success and failure.”

Kerry Ritson was supported by Goodlives and works eight hours a week in the charity shop.

He has ADHD and two children with behavioral challenges and is frightened to join the outside world.

He said that if he had not taken a job opportunity, “I would not feel confident in myself, I would not make friends for life”.

He said, “I saw that I was fixing, but I am mask and I was not just I was. I am learn how I should be,” she said.