This will cause a lot of anxiety. If it genuinely leads to more support and less potential to leave people in a mess if they want to try working it could be a good direction. But could so easily be punitive in new ways and defeat the purpose of reform entirely - ThreadSky

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annadent.bsky.social • 23 days ago

This will cause a lot of anxiety. If it genuinely leads to more support and less potential to leave people in a mess if they want to try working it could be a good direction. But could so easily be punitive in new ways and defeat the purpose of reform entirely

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lillput.bsky.social•23 days ago

But it also needs the right sort of employment to work alongside benefits. For those employers (like @techresort.bsky.social ) happy to employ people working alongside chronic ill-health we can't ignore the fact that it is slightly more expensive because it takes more management /1

lillput.bsky.social•23 days ago

and a fair bit of juggling. To be honest employing people who have struggled to get employment makes us really proud and it works well for us, but it would be nice if there was some financial recognition for what we do. /end

annadent.bsky.social•23 days ago

Totally. That's one of the reasons I think it could go very wrong - if someone tries a job and it doesn't work out, how will the system deal with that? They need to not default to blaming the individual, and they need to work with employers to create more, better jobs

lillput.bsky.social•23 days ago

In my experience the third-party 'work coach' organisations are the worst. They get paid on numbers not quality so the second they can place someone with you they immediately lose interest in the claimant (for usually NEETs who struggle in 'mainstream' settings). /1

lillput.bsky.social•23 days ago

That means we feel used and the person who has been dumped over gets no continuity of support . All the while we know the 'job coach' has been paid for their (lack of) effort and we rely on charitable grants. /2

lillput.bsky.social•23 days ago

I LOVE that we have young people delivering a complex digital inclusion service but the fact remains it's not fair /grump

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