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1	Ipswich Unemployed Action This excellent Blog is dedicated to fighting for the rights of the Unemployed and provides a good source of information.	46
2	Watching A4e Keeping an eye on a company whose business is government contracts.	54
3	Benefits Culture Benefits Culture is a blog written by a small group of people who are on incapacity benefits in the UK. We examine the myths surrounding life on benefits, and the outright lies the media and politicians tell. We’ll tell you what being on income support is really like, and why various people who suffer from depression, or PTSD, or chronic illness are unable to work.	28
4	New Deal Contract (Multi-Programme) This website provides an insight into New Deal and New Deal Providers. In this case this link pionts to the contract used between the government and agency.	40
5	Rights & Wrongs By activists and advocates in north west England. This blog had various contributors up to August 2008, who all worked in the voluntary sector. Funding cuts and redundancy, and career moves, mean we now have only three regular contributors. We're still using the general pseudonym "Annie Citizen" because we don't want anybody to be able to identify our clients, or our management to be able to identify us. Anonymity means we can say what we like!	32
6	Brighton Benefits Campaign We believe that it is only in a collective response to these attacks through developing a broad campaign of benefit claimants, workers, unions and anybody else who wants to fight back that we can actually change things.	24
7	Lone Ranger Back in January 2007 I made a Crisis Loan website to expose and advise on the problems people were having trying to get through to the Benefit Delivery Centres by phone and other problems of poor service delivery which existed at that time. Since then the telephony has considerably improved and although there are still problems in a few regions, the articles which I had written were becoming increasingly irrelevent. However, there were still many useful documents, e.g. telephone numbers, rules and regulations and links, which received regular hits and thousands of visitors each year to the website, therefore I wanted to continue making these available whilst widening the scope of my web activities. So the Penury site began on 3 March 2010 and is undergoing intensive construction at the present time. (6/3/2010)	5
8	New Ordeal A diary from a "Graduate, PhD, Jobseeker" attending A4e on a 13 week IAP. Read about the antics A4e are getting up to but there again many other providers are the same.	11
9	Oxfam UK Poverty post This blog is the online space for debate and discussion on tackling poverty in the UK. You will find a wide range of authors – journalists, politicians, NGO workers, and most importantly, ordinary people, sharing their experiences and thoughts on poverty in the UK. Whilst many of the posts are written by Oxfam staff, the blog is not just a forum for Oxfam’s views. We endeavour to attract a diverse set of authors with diverse opinions, and welcome unsolicited submissions, and encourage people to comment on what they read.	4

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