Who would be willing to work for benefits?

Numpty_Monkey

PasturesNew wrote: »

For many people they are.

Minimum wage, aged 22 and over, is £5.73/hour.
For a 35 hour working week that is £10,446 per year.
After tax/NI that is a takehome of £751.

JSA at £60.50 is £262/month, which means single people in this position whose rent and council tax are more than £489/month are receiving more than minimum wage

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minnie123

Well I do apologise for going off thread but sometimes that happens - And to answer the op's question yes I would be willing to do some voluntary work for benefits.

Numpty_Monkey

minnie123 wrote: »

Well I do apologise for going off thread but sometimes that happens - And to answer the op's question yes I would be willing to do some voluntary work for benefits.

Hope you never have to put it into practise:A

minnie123

Numpty_Monkey wrote: »

Hope you never have to put it into practise:A

I was made redundant 6 years ago. I actually got my current job through the job centre while claiming JSA.

Numpty_Monkey

I think I may have misunderstood your post before, I am not a cheat just want to work, but at the moment there isnothing out there

sammyjammy

I think its a fantastic idea but only for people that have been claiming for over 12 months unemployed, its not appropriate before that, lots of hard working people find themselves unemployed at soem tiem in their lives and deserve some time to sort themselves out and get back into employment.

racheyg

I have a friend who was made redundant about 6 months ago, and decided to do some part time work she found selling phones, which she found really boring, but had to do it to make ends meet, and then claimed whatever she could.

She decided to work for a local charity in an area of work she had always been interested in, to do with fostering, in her spare hours.

Now she works almost full time within a similar arena, and is at University, and she got the job because of the experience she had had with the voluntary work.

I know it doesn't work for all people, but there are so many people who get depressed when on benefits, and this keeps people working and gives them satisfaction in their work.

Maybe I'm being naive, but it worked for her.

piggeh

It can be a positive way to use your time if it is sometihng where you get a degree of satisfaction and/or enjoyment. Equally I wouldn't like to be one of the many gracious and generous volunteers only to then see my work interfered with by someone that doesn't want to be there in the first place. If you sent everyone volunteering half of them would give volunteers a bad name.

BigSteveLondon

racheyg wrote: »

Interested in hearing, if made redundant, would you be willing to work for your benefits?

You are not allowed to work more than 16hrs if you are job seeking. Voluntary or not. The same applies if you are studying/retraining to better your chances of re-employment.
In this current climate all who think the worst of people on benefits really need to pause and think. It's happening to all types of people, in all walks of life.
This is my 1st time being made redundant, and my 1st having to claim anything. The shame of going in every 2wks to explain why you haven't got a job is bad enough. Then they want you to look into totally inappropriate fields at less than half what you were earning?

racheyg

Yes it's depressing. But I think that is because those who regularly don't work give others a bad reputation, when they genuinely need and are entitled to claim benefits.