21 August, 2019 / Add to favourites
DWP’s universal credit website suggests claimants search for work as striptease artists or fortune tellers
First highlighted in the rightsnet forum, DWP says information is 'inappropriate' and was 'mistakenly listed'
Universal credit claimants should consider searching for work as striptease artists or fortune tellers, according to the DWP's universal credit website.
Hosted on gov.uk, the 'Work you could do' web pages are designed to help people looking for work to understand the kind of work they'd do in various occupations, and suggests 'words to use in your online search'.
However, alongside work as a hotel assistant and changing room attendant, the site suggests that universal credit claimants might do an online jobsearch for 'striptease artist' and that the kind of work they might do would include -
'.. dances in adult entertainment establishments.'
While advising that there are 'no formal academic entry requirements' and that 'training is typically received on the job', the site suggests that other areas of work might include -
divining and telling fortunes by various means; and
loading numbered balls into a machine, starting machine, removing balls and reading out the numbers.
First highlighted yesterday in the rightsnet discussion forum, the DWP is reported to have said this afternoon that 'this is inappropriate and we will immediately review this to determine why it is mistakenly listed'.
The 'Work you could do' pages were then replaced with a message that says 'Work you could do' is temporarily unavailable.
For more information, see
https://tools.universal-credit.service.gov.uk/work-you-could-doOne of the jobs listed in the picture is "clapper boy" - Im really not sure of the job description but >yikes<
this was the original link but not sure it still works
https://tools.universal-credit.service.gov.uk/work-you-could-do/42b839f3-c72d-4fa2-b3b5-b2fd7a6f6867/occupations/9279?from_query=elementaryAs well as rightsnet Huffington post picked up this story
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dwp-striptease-artist-universal-credit_uk_5d5d4b35e4b063487e95c259DWP have taken the site down but its disgusting that they would sanction someone who didn't apply for those jobs.