"Job Seekers" Allowance

Very few large private sector companies in Yorkshire more opportunities in more prosperous regions. In teaching go on TES online and look at number of jobs in South East compared to Yorkshire and other regions.

 

So then, you think everyone out of work rents their accommodation?

 

I was on it for 6 months after getting made redundant 2 years ago. Still had to pay my full mortgage and got my council tax bill halved that was it no help anywhere else. Yes kids got free school meals but that was it nothing

 

Just look at Paul Sykes and Parky..oh and Xerox

 

So folk with family's should follow you to Iran, Saudi and south Vietnam..
Other than that Your arrogance is fkin sickening...

 

I'm not talking about ppl who use it has a safety net, has it was originally intended. I'm talking about the folk who clearly milk the system for every penny and have no intension of ever finding a job.. I know ppl like this. and there attitude is I'm barmy for working.. I worked it out once and on my income which isn't mim wage I'm £14 aweek better off for going to work.. take into account the petrol to get to work and my snap when I'm there, Id prob break even on the dole..

 

People have a strange idea of the benefit system. Very outdated. I worked until about 5 years ago as a Benefit Fraud Investigator and your vision of benefits was outdated then. Rent the LHA determines how much support you can receive. If your rent was £100 a week your LHA would be around 78.33. Meaning from your 75 quid have £ 53 quid. Council Tax Benefit has been replaced by Council Tax Support meaning from your 53 quid a further 10 is taken. You will be expected in order to claim benefits to have a broadband connection to meet the requirements of universal credit so we are down to 38 quid. You will also be expected to travel to the job centre and attend all interviews up to 2 hours away. Claimants were told to budget that at least a tenner a week should be kept for this. Gas and electric which you would need to make your broadband connection work so let’s say conservatively 15 quid for that. So 13 quid for food a week.

 

Yep. Was a real eye opener for me, paying into the system since I was 16(42 now) and to be told I could only get just enough to live on was heart breaking even though I was there due to no fault of my own. Then sanctions on top if you fail to provide proof of job search, how people survive when they get sanctioned is beyond me

 

I personally think we took a backward step when we stopped sending children up chimneys.

 

The fact that some folk take the piss isn't reason to obliterate everyone else - the same way that because some wealthy folk take the piss out of the tax system doesn't mean all business owners are Dickensian b@stards.

None of us can afford to be that smug about our own financial position - the crisis of 2007 showed that assets can rapidly devalue, and most people are 2 missed mortgage payments away from living on the street. It's a shame that politicians of all hues have managed to set different sections of society against each other. A bit of empathy for our fellow humans wouldn't go amiss right now.

 

For some, true. But not for all. Depends on the definition of "proper" I suppose.

When I was working I had 35 years of frustration trying to recruit electronic engineers, in Platts Common and then in Dodworth. They'd all left the area because they thought all the jobs were "darn sarf", and didn't want to uproot their families and come back.

 

I have 2 lads early 20s working for us as general labourers, we pay them a good rate and hours in good conditions treat them well and have looked after them and we would give them future works after this project which they know. Unfortunately they are chuffin bone idle and hide from work when I'm not there on them. I've tried all managerial and leadership methods but basically when I finish them after Christmas and that's the only reason they are still here because Christmas is nearby I don't even think they will be bothered and they will just go back on the dole when they had a chance of long term work with progression if they weren't so daft and just put a bit of effort in.
This is not uncommon in all sectors you see people stealing a wage instead of just doing a honest days work and then others who won't work even when given a good opportunity. Some lads who come to site struggle to speak they just grunt, no manners, no politeness, they are arrogant and aggressive it's sad what a lot of people are like it didn't used to be like this.

 

Thankyou watched it. I'll give it some thought and will watch it again, it makes a lot of sense changing my mindset to try to find the best way to understand will be the hardest thing but my kids are dealing with the same things so you have to acknowledge a lot of it.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/helpah...assdoor-young-the-felix-project-a8090541.html

Scrounger.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...s-william-beveridge-britain-inequality-tories

 

There are plenty of jobs in Yorkshire, I mist get 3 phone calls a week

 

If you watch these tv programmes an art people on benefits it's amazing how they can all smoke like chimneys and drink like fish and have big flashy tv's games consoles pets and decent cars
I'm on living wage can't afford to have a drink drive an old banger struggle to put fuel in it
Struggle to pay for gas and leccy I would be better off on benefits but I'm a grafter always have and always will since leaving school in 92 I have 6 months of unemployment