Long term unemployed to be asked to give back something
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Soon to be exploited to its fullest 
Cheap labour with the penalty of loss of benefit if you cant fit in
I get sick of hearing about people sitting about on handouts.Lets face,the amount given by the government is hardly anything and is in fact impossible to lead a healthy life on it
Sixty five quid a week is hardly coining it in :?
Cheap labour with the penalty of loss of benefit if you cant fit inI get sick of hearing about people sitting about on handouts.Lets face,the amount given by the government is hardly anything and is in fact impossible to lead a healthy life on it
Sixty five quid a week is hardly coining it in :?
mikeekim89
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To quote GTA4
"you don't have a job, you don't live in a apartment"
I agree though, If your not atleast looking for a job, you shouldn't be given anything.
"you don't have a job, you don't live in a apartment"
I agree though, If your not atleast looking for a job, you shouldn't be given anything.
dyna-ti":1injjiso said:Soon to be exploited to its fullest
I get sick of hearing about people sitting about on handouts.Lets face,the amount given by the government is hardly anything and is in fact impossible to lead a healthy life on it
Sixty five quid a week is hardly coining it in :?
+2 that.
highlandsflyer
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How about people who have paid into the system for thirty years and happen to live in areas with no jobs?
Are they needing this treatment?
Pathetic really, pandering to the ignorant and will actually cost more than proper skills training.
Are they needing this treatment?
Pathetic really, pandering to the ignorant and will actually cost more than proper skills training.
Harryburgundy
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Of course there are people who take advantage of our system, but I'm still proud of the basic ethos that this country embraces...we contribute a little to help those in need.
but it at least addresses the people who are willing to live off the £60 odd a week jobseekers, and don't forget that housing allowance and council tax support is on top of that.
I think that kind of support is well deserved to people looking for a job, but once you've been on that for a while it's perhaps time to say that you should be dropping your job expectations from your ideal job to just any job! It is possible to live off what the state will give you, I myself lived off it for 6 months at one point. £60 a week may be hardly coining it is, but then again you don't have to do anything! I found the evidence you had to give to the jobcentre to prove you were looking for a job was a complete joke, it would be very easy to fake...
I think that kind of support is well deserved to people looking for a job, but once you've been on that for a while it's perhaps time to say that you should be dropping your job expectations from your ideal job to just any job! It is possible to live off what the state will give you, I myself lived off it for 6 months at one point. £60 a week may be hardly coining it is, but then again you don't have to do anything! I found the evidence you had to give to the jobcentre to prove you were looking for a job was a complete joke, it would be very easy to fake...
I can't believe that this is seriously being considered in a so called civilised society. It is wrong in so many ways.
I am currently unemployed myself and expect some people will say that I am simply trying to defend my life of idle pleasure. I have no doubt at all though that I would feel exactly the same if I was still working.
I can also assure anyone who hasn't experienced it that living on benefits is not an option that I, nor I think the majority of claimants, would choose. The simple and obvious fact is that in our current situation, someone has too and all predictions are that there are going to be many many more.
There are already measures in place which to monitor claimants job seeking activities. There is regular fortnightly questioning where evidence of activity must be shown with further more intensive interviews at set intervals if unemployment continues.
It seems that some people have been influenced by the increasingly frequent and sensationalist media coverage of extreme examples of benefit cases. These are obviously not a true picture of the unpleasant experience of millions of others who would like nothing more than to give a fair days work for a fair days reward.
Yet again victims are being made into scapegoats.
I am currently unemployed myself and expect some people will say that I am simply trying to defend my life of idle pleasure. I have no doubt at all though that I would feel exactly the same if I was still working.
I can also assure anyone who hasn't experienced it that living on benefits is not an option that I, nor I think the majority of claimants, would choose. The simple and obvious fact is that in our current situation, someone has too and all predictions are that there are going to be many many more.
There are already measures in place which to monitor claimants job seeking activities. There is regular fortnightly questioning where evidence of activity must be shown with further more intensive interviews at set intervals if unemployment continues.
It seems that some people have been influenced by the increasingly frequent and sensationalist media coverage of extreme examples of benefit cases. These are obviously not a true picture of the unpleasant experience of millions of others who would like nothing more than to give a fair days work for a fair days reward.
Yet again victims are being made into scapegoats.
All well and good except that the work that will get done will be stopping someone else from having a permanent full-time job.
Idiocy.
It's the same in Denmark. Local authorities use the system to save money.
People will lose their jobs when the company get people in on a job creation scheme. It's bloody ridiculous.
Idiocy.
It's the same in Denmark. Local authorities use the system to save money.
People will lose their jobs when the company get people in on a job creation scheme. It's bloody ridiculous.
dbmtb":2r5lnzl7 said:
Exactly..
This kind of foolishness comes about because there are people willing to play the system to its fullest, the media are more than happy to highlight these people and the employed are happy to believe that everybody on benefit is the same.
If the government are hell-bent on this perhaps it should be focussed on voluntary work for charities etc. and not taking up a vacant job position.
Just a thought . . .
**edit** just been on the news that the work will be community work - not quite so bad.. perhaps..
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