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Socialist Organiser1982 1982-03-25Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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FROM those wonderful folks who brought you the sex snoopers - the homework police. The 1980 Supplementary Benefits Act allows people to attend school or college for "not more than 21 hours a week" and still claim benefit, provided they are willing to take up a job immediately it is offered (a likely asset-stri machinery sold off when Peugeot Citroen shut their Talbot factory in Linwood, with 5,000 redundancies. ended up.
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Scuttish Sunday Ma: that Messin uf prospect!). But new guidelines now reaching local offices from the Chief Supplementary Benefits Officer lay • down that "attendance" at school/ college includes "private study on or off college premises" , as well as lunch breaks and project work.
This has already lead young people losing tures Datsuns under licence brought several million pounds worth of press shop equipment for £'‹ million and Steel-Mobil of Durban paid £50.000 for turning equipment which would save cust at least ten times inat benefits, after being seen by visiting officers with books open at home. While the hard right of the Tory Party denounce falling educational standards and accuse young people of being urfit for employment because of their poor qualifications, those who do try to improve their chances are offered the stark choice of ignorance or starvation.
By special request. 'I am going to make a special request to the police, the army and the national guard not to shoot news people" - President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador.
Nice one Napoleon. Perhaps he hopes it will give him better press coverage than he's had recently.
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Socialist Organiser no. 78 March 25 1982 Page 4
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