Over at systemthinkingforgirls.com:
Now that the petition calling for Iain Duncan Smith to prove he can live on £53 a week has been handed in to the Department of Work and Pensions by Change.org, we should start planning his experience of claiming benefits in more detail. Because it’s not just about the amount of money, is it? It’s also the absurd, unfair and unpredictable bureaucracy that goes with it at a time when you are least able to cope with it.
What follows is the experience I think the Jobcentre should arrange for him.
Day 1
• His benefits should be stopped suddenly for no reason...
Once I dipt into the future
6 hours ago
2 comments:
ISTM that the system is designed to be as irrational and difficult as possible from the point of view of the claimants, in order to deter people from claiming, similar to the idea of the workhouse - our attitudes haven't changed much in 150 years. What's slightly wierd is that, instead of trumpeting the byzantine nature of the system to keep all the DM readers on side, the govt acts as if slightly ashamed of it (as it should be, but isn't).
The whole thing sounds like a real-life version of some computer game: each time you go round the loop, you learn how to get past the various obstacles, e.g. you learn not to give up the first slip of paper by saying you lost it, then you learn not to claim you lost it (because that sends you back to the beginning) but to say you weren't given one in the first place, and so it goes on.
B, agreed.
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