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simplysound wrote: »

Also i believe that job seekers should be required to do community service as a part of their benefit - maybe an hour a week after they have been claiming for a month, increasing for each further month they claim... Then it makes it less - money for nothing

I know plenty who would agree with you, but would prefer it to be 36 hours a week and for the council to call it a job, with all the normal benefits of employment.

It would be great if it was just exceptional circumstances that kept people unemployed for over 6 months, but t isn't. As hard as it is to believe there really are no permanent jobs in large parts of the UK.

Anyway neither of us is helping the OP!

bigredhen

roofer1uk wrote: »

I lost my job as a plasterer 3 weeks ago and went to claim Job seekers allowance today. I came home fuming!
I was told because my wife has a busary as a student Nurse that will effect my claim and I will only recieve a small percentage of it!
ontop of this I cannot claim mortgage help for 13 weeks! 13 weeks? I would have lost my house by then!

So I have to live on 120 quid bursary, feed two kids, pay mortgage and bills?
great country we live in!

And to top it of the women talked to me like I was a Long term unemployed deadleg.

Fu**ing Joke!

13 weeks is nothing....it was 39 weeks....the idea is that when people take out a mortgage they take out a mortgage protection policy for this eventuality

stoneman

bigredhen wrote: »

13 weeks is nothing....it was 39 weeks....the idea is that when people take out a mortgage they take out a mortgage protection policy for this eventuality

Very costly if not applicable if you are self-employed, I know
bigredhen is right. When I first signed on I was told that I would not be able to get help with my mortgage for the first nine months, then something changed and now I get £122 a week paid to my lenders after being off work for 13 weeks. Criky just looked at my origional post, I said I had no work for 2 months, it's actually 3!!

bored_at_home

ven WITH mortgage protection payable after 30 days it takes forever, i been unemployed 11 weeks (first time ever) and insurance just made first payment (1MTH) for PPI.