A NINE-FOLD increase in employees within the Public Health team over the past five years has prompted a call from a backbench politician for a recruitment freeze while the government justifies the expanded head-count.Deputy Andy Howell, a member of t.
THE Chief Minister has reshuffled her team following the shock resignation of Assistant Chief Minister Andy Jehan.Meanwhile, the chief Health scrutineer has said that government should stop having “internal battles played out in public” and inste.
THE Social Security Minister has rejected a recommendation to write off benefit overpayments resulting from errors made by the government, claiming that it would be unfair and increase the cost of benefits to the taxpayer.Last month, the Health and S.
STRESS caused by debt from repaying Income Support overpayments is “so severe” that some Islanders have considered or attempted to take their own lives, according to a new report.The review by the Health and Social Security Scrutiny Panel also fo.
By Mick Le MoignanTHE revelations (JEP 27 July) of hardship suffered by vulnerable Islanders forced to repay wrongly calculated income support benefits echo the recent exposure of the ‘Robodebt’ scandal in Australia.In Jersey, the Salvation Army,.