Jeremy Poxon: "It is remarkable how little thought the employment department has given to the serious harm this potentially illegal scheme is inflicting on the most disadvantaged communities in the country."
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“There are 2,245 people – most of whom will be in extreme financial hardship – receiving a reduced payment due to application of the Targeted Compliance Framework. It is an absurd Kafkaesque nightmare…This has to end.”
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The state, captured by business, intentionally makes welfare so awful that workers’ are cowed into accepting poor conditions rather than entering the welfare system.
I mean, I can't speak for Poxon's word choice, but i suspect he knows this.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/02610183221087333