Unemployment Movement

"Even before the government has got its controversial welfare reforms through parliament, it's signing fat cheques to its friends in the private sector to implement them.
Accenture has already secured a seven-year contract worth up to roughly £500m to manage provision of the IT systems for the new universal credit benefits scheme.....The outsourcing giant will bring in subcontractors to build the "customer-facing component" of the scheme, which presumably means online applications....the principal subcontractor is ...Atos.......
IBM has already been given a £525m contract to provide various DWP systems including customer information and "a fraud referral and intervention service".....£100m contract has gone to HP for software.
Ministers have clearly decided to ignore the Commons public accounts committee which warned that nearly a third of the UK's poorest citizens - and those therefore who are most likely to depend on benefits - never use a computer."

FBI to shut Internet And what happens if the internet packs up, as it well may very soon? What backups are in place to take over, what redundant systems will come, er, not online? Surely if an off-line backup system exists, as would surely be prudent, there's no real need for the online version in the first place?

Well if you're talking about the threatened Anonymous attempt to knock the internet on its ass on the last day of march, it isn't going to happen for various reasons.


As for the online system, this is just an attempt to shut jobcentres and make sure more is done over the phone from call centres