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Government is planning to cut benefit for pensions. Personally, I don't see the problem... especially when I met someone the other day who has been living off unemployment benefit for years and told me he has no intention of getting a job.
Kind of made me angry, didn't want to start another fight though.
Views?
There's always loads of temping jobs advertised in our paper, so instead of claiming benefit people should be forced to sign up with an agency instead.
> Hmmmmmm.
> Can you refuse to do jobs where there's a fair amount of risk?
No. Most jobs are in bomb disposal and hostage negotiation. "Over 10,00 ft Parachute tester" was also popular.
Might have to start on JSA when I go to Edinburgh in a bit.
Can you refuse to do jobs where there's a fair amount of risk?
What sort of jobs have people been offered?
Signing on for the last time this Thursday as I'm starting work a week on Tuesday.
The system works.
> cookie monster wrote:
> Or it should be like australia where you have to prove that you have
> been looking for a job to continue to get the benefit.
>
> Thats the way it is here
It's the way it's meant to be here, but (at least back in 2001) they weren't checking up on me to see if I was job searching. At the most they'd ask if I was searching, I'd say "yes" (I wasn't lying, but I COULD have been) and they'd take it at face value rather than checking up on the when's and the where's.
Glad I'm off it anyway, though I do know someone that's 21 and only worked 1 day in his life before quitting and going on JSA. Unemployed for 4 and a half years now. Sick isnt it?
> Or it should be like australia where you have to prove that you have
> been looking for a job to continue to get the benefit.
Thats the way it is here
> Knowing that your wages would be cut to pay for benefits, would you
> EVER want to get a job after being on so long?
Well, sure they'd be cut - but it doesn't have to be repaid in large chunks. Depends what you're earning recently, £5 a month off a monthly wage packet isn't going to break the bank.
I guess though that would mean that benefits turn into loans, and the country is in enough debt as it is ;)