Be Shocked! It costs £31,284 per person to put an unemployed person on a Job scheme for 13 weeks….. Look Minister I will cut the middleman out of this and accept £25.ooo thousand and you won’t hear a peep from me for a year. God with this money I could start-up my own business…..



Hang on…. I got it they wanted to start up a whole new industry with this money… “FREE LABOUR.CO.LTD” and now the Tory`s are in, there just miffed that it was costing so much. So this is an argument over a Labour run Gulag camp or a Conservative run Concentration camp… But now the cost issue will be solved since new policy is to starve the unemployed into submission.

Minister attacks Labour work scheme

Chris Grayling, the minister for work, was embroiled in a political row on Wednesday as he claimed that Labour’s flagship welfare-to-work programme had been “chronically mismanaged and fundamentally flawed”.

Figures for the first 11 months of the Flexible New Deal up to August this year show it had placed only 16,238 people in work for 13 weeks at a cost of £508m
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The Department for Work and Pensions said that worked out at £31,284 per job. The programme, which the coalition has cancelled in favour of a much more ambitious Work Programme, had cost “massive amounts of money” while delivering “very little”, Mr Grayling said. His replacement programme would be very different and work much better.

Update as Telegraph runs story on welfare reform from the coalition perpective....

Welfare reform: companies could make up to £14,000 for every claimant who gets back into work

Private firms could make up to £14,000 each for every long-time benefit claimant they get back into work, the welfare reform minister has said.

The new Welfare Reform Bill will sweep away a range of benefits and replace them with a simple Universal Credit. Benefits claimants will get higher payments when they go to work, trying to give them a stronger incentive to take jobs.

Welfare-to-work providers will be rewarded for helping long-term unemployed back into work and able Lord Freud said they would be able to earn “very good fees” from the benefits overhaul.

He said: “Depending on the scale of the challenge the jobseeker faces, we will pay anything between £4,000 and £14,000 to the employment specialists – if they can get people into sustainable employment.”

The Government recognised that “it is very easy to throw an incredible amount of money” at new benefits programmes “without seeing results”.

There are 2.2million people on incapacity benefit, of whom 1.6million will be assessed to see if they are fit for work. Trials have suggested that one in three will be judged to fit to go back to work.

Source; Telegraph