Cost Neutral Staffing

Transferring current staff by:

Ending Jobcentres and Sanctions.

Ending Re-assessment of chronic disabled and sickness benefit.

Ending Bedroom Tax.

Temporarily transferring council tax admin staff for 2025, whilst Council Tax is being redesigned into a council income tax by HMRC. 

Employing in public sector current staff either working direct for government in DWP or in a private company, which welfare admin would cease. 

Transfer Current Staff to pension office

We have seen from Department of Works and Pensions' 118 paragraph submission to the Ombudsman ..."Much of the submission is devoted to the Ombudsman’s proposal that all the women who have similar circumstances must get similar compensation and fund set up to deal with the wider question of compensation for financial loss. This means that the department would have to examine each case in detail which, according to the paper , would mean employing 5,500 extra staff, and take away people from other work like paying people’s pensions on their retirement and awarding pension credit."...

So each pension policy pledges about:

• compensation to 1950s and 1960s born ladies,
• pension 60 to 1965 ladies onwards and
• increased state pension to all pensioners to same £486.55,
• would need 5,500 staff each pledge,
• that is just transfer of staff already employed and doing pension office work at current office desk.

..."The submission says: “DWP would not have information on all 1950s-born women and we would have to source their information – for example, through HMRC. We would also need bank details in order to make an automated payment and these would be obtained through outreach and/or some way for citizens to provide their details. Such a scenario would take significant setting-up and would have wide ranging impacts on DWP’s other critical business, with likely costs of the digital aspects.” It says this would take 18 months to set up."...

OUR POLICY PLEDGES WOULD BE INSTANT BECAUSE:

• DWP would not have to examine each case in detail, as same compensation and state pension payment to each 1950s and 1960s ladies.
  
  
• 1950s ladies already retired now and getting state pension, so their bank details already known to pension office.
  
  
• 1960s ladies' bank details might be already known from your direct debits to pay, for example, council tax.
  
  
• Pensioners all getting same upgrade to £486.55 per week state pension, regardless of National Insurance record and paid tax free by not being deducted from your personal income tax allowance.

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