DWP sending out letters which are 'a new low' even for them

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Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have hit out at a "new low" from the benefits and welfare department. DWP Jobcentre staff could face potential redundancy ahead of a closure, a union has warned.

The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union said more than 80 jobs are at risk at the Lincoln City Hall site and its members will take strike action from 1 December until 2 January.

Ian Fisher, the union branch chair said: "To announce redundancies only after the escalation of industrial action is a new low for the DWP , who have failed to have any empathy throughout this whole process."

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The DWP said redeployment for staff had been a "first priority" and a voluntary redundancy sch