A question for Jobseekers.

annandale wrote: »

And here come the benefit bashers. There are many people on benefits who work. Universal credit is an in work benefit and even those who aren't in work and on uc have to do up to a 35 hour a week job search

And evidence that they have done so. I know people on uc who volunteer 30 hours a week.

Numerous people on uc work part time.

I'm really not sure given that

The original OP was asking specifically about the unemployed and what the individual should have to do to prove/earn the benefit. Nothing to do with in work benefits, hence my response.

Personally, there shouldn't be ANY in work benefits (other than possibly an apprenticeship allowance for in work training/college release). If someone can't afford to live on the wage they're being paid employers wouldn't be able to recruit.

People who are on uc are counted in the unemployment figures. Unless you earn 35 hours a week times min wage and you are on uc you have to see a work coach and have job search requirements.

Even someone on uc who isnt working at all has to do 35 hours a week jobsewrch

In answer to one of your original questions, since deleted.

To be entitled to benefits, claimants should get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before they go to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day in a mill or coalmine , and pay the mill or mine owner for permission to come to work, and when they get home, their family must kill them and dance about on their graves singing Hallelujah.

That would sort the scroungers out!!

I've done loads of voluntary work over the years. I've worked with people who have suffered abuse. I've volunteered for sacro. I've worked in the Red Cross.

I'm currently volunteering online giving advice to people who are new to universal credit and want questions answered.

I have a degree, two post grads. I'm a qualified PT. I have my sia badge.

Most of the work I've done over the last year has been zero hours. And during the summer it's more or less full time.

Other times it's 4-8 hours a week.

Do people honestly think that people who are motivated to volunteer in times where they aren't working full time really need to be told that they should go out and litter pick two days a week to get their benefit?

It's hard enough out there as it is without someone piping up that they'd have people out sweeping streets!

Oh and by the way. Some people are made to go into schemes where they work for their benefit.

I was working for a gym last year who take all their staff on on self employed contracts. You have to pay them a licence fee of 240 yearly.

The only money you get is if people take out personal training. Which is optional.

One lad made 60 pounds in six months.

This is the sort of work practices people are up against. But instead of employers being criticised for paying poor wages.

It's the fault of the person working in that job.

There were reports that some self employed workers for deliveroo were making two pounds an hour.

It's shameful. Don't tar everyone who is unemployed with the lazy brush because it's not true.