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DWP staff call for confidentiality in respect of their own UC claims
From the PCS website - Motion passed at DWP Group Conference 2018 -
Conference notes that based on the numbers of staff in receipt of Child Tax Credits, Working Tax Credits and Housing Benefit there is the potential for anything up to 40% of staff to be claiming Universal Credit. As in Work claimants these DWP staff will be subject to in work conditionality along with other in-work claimants.
Current advice provided by DWP for staff finding themselves subject to this regime where they work for the department charged with delivering UC is woefully inadequate.
Conference instructs the incoming DWP GEC to:
- Demand that staff are offered the right to full confidentiality in respect of their UC claim
- Demand that they are given the option of demonstrating that they have met the conditions of their claim in a Jobcentre or other environment of their choice
- Demand that DWP sets up specialist teams, as has happened in HMRC, to handle their claims
- Demand that any time lost and expenses incurred by staff as claimants is fully recompensed.
- Demand that staff can opt out of dealing with the claims of other DWP staff
From the PCS website - Motion passed at DWP Group Conference 2018 -
Conference notes that based on the numbers of staff in receipt of Child Tax Credits, Working Tax Credits and Housing Benefit there is the potential for anything up to 40% of staff to be claiming Universal Credit. As in Work claimants these DWP staff will be subject to in work conditionality along with other in-work claimants.
Current advice provided by DWP for staff finding themselves subject to this regime where they work for the department charged with delivering UC is woefully inadequate.
Conference instructs the incoming DWP GEC to:
- Demand that staff are offered the right to full confidentiality in respect of their UC claim
- Demand that they are given the option of demonstrating that they have met the conditions of their claim in a Jobcentre or other environment of their choice
- Demand that DWP sets up specialist teams, as has happened in HMRC, to handle their claims
- Demand that any time lost and expenses incurred by staff as claimants is fully recompensed.
- Demand that staff can opt out of dealing with the claims of other DWP staff
well that’ll be fun, then (tongue firmly in cheek, of course).
will be interesting to see the tales of woe of said DWP staff when they are afflicted by the same stuff as the rest of the world!