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Coalition Activity - the launch of WILLOW at Westminster
Coalition member Off the Streets and into Work’s launched their new WILLOW project – Welfare Influencing in London: Lobbying on Worklessness, which Community Links is a member of and spoke at. The event was hosted by Terry Rooney MP in his Parliamentary Office in Portcullis House on 19th May. One of the project’s key objectives is to raise… Read more.
Working Alongside report : Community Links & ATD Fourth World
Community Links and ATD Fourth World, are two charities both working with people who live in poverty. We jointly conducted a series of workshops with people who have long-term experience of poverty to explore their experiences, draw out common themes and develop ideas for changes to the system that participants felt would help them move out of poverty,… Read more.
New DWP evidence on how to tackle benefit fraud
DWP evidence explains that people living in poverty commit benefit fraud out… Read more.
DWP: Understanding the behaviour and motivations behind customer fraud the recent expenses scandal
A recently published DWP report Factors affecting compliance with rules: Understanding the behaviour and motivations behind customer fraud includes the following: “The design of the benefits system probably enables some customers to hide behind the excuse of misunderstanding the system or being misinformed by benefits office staff” . To tackle benefit fraud… Read more.
Informal economy mentioned in the Low Pay Commissions Report on the Minimum Wage
"We Understand that those who operate in the informal economy requires extra effort and resource and results may not appear to justify the effort put in. This is true of tackling any activity in the informal economy. Actions planned to enable enforcement agencies to more readily share information and intellegence will, we believe, will help make headway as those operating in the informal economy are unlikely to be complying with a range of employment and tax laws, not just the minimum wage.… Read more.