The above is a quote from one Neil Couling, the JCP gentleman responsible for the delivery of working age Benefits in general and the Social Fund in particular.

If you go to the link below, which hopefully Shawn will have sorted out by the time you read this, you'll see that Neil has finally come up with a solution which might just work, which basically entails JCP almost doubling their Social Fund Decision makers numbers from 800 to 1500 over the next few months.... we shall see ......


http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/pdfs/Letter_on_Social_Fund_1_19_08_08.doc

Feb 2008:
"Massive job cuts have been announced at the Department for Work and Pensions - with some 12,000 positions to be axed over the next three years".
"Mr Purnell has insisted that, despite 30,000 job cuts in the department over the last three years, productivity at the DWP was up by 11%" (Sky News website)

Aug 2008:
"To give you an idea of scale this will involve increasing the number of crisis loan DMs for living expenses from around 800 today to 1500 people"

Funny old business...