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Unemployment: Dole to go up £60 a month in budget

The latest proposals are part of a £100million package for workers hit by the credit crunch. Although the details are still to be finalised, it is also understood job seekers' allowance, which currently stands at £64.30 a week, will go up £15 per week.

Lovely, a nice little surprise.
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  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Grrr,

    I hate all this buying votes crap.

    Off with their heads.
  • misskool
    misskool Posts: 12,832 Forumite
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    so how much will someone need to earn gross pa to match what they will get on JSA?
  • Dr_DiNg_DoNg
    Dr_DiNg_DoNg Posts: 3,897 Forumite
    misskool wrote: »
    so how much will someone need to earn gross pa to match what they will get on JSA?

    for basic JSA/Rent/Council tax, I reckon about 12K for a single person.
  • misskool
    misskool Posts: 12,832 Forumite
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    so, someone could go to work part time, at minimum wage to earn 12k a year or they could just sit at home all day and watch jeremy kyle without needing to do anything?

    I'm offended that my taxes are being raised so the long term unemployed get more benefits :(
  • Mr_Mumble
    Mr_Mumble Posts: 1,758 Forumite
    This can't be for real. Example:

    21 year old works part-time (16 hours a week) on minimum wage (£4.77) =£76.32

    They'd be 'earning' more if they didn't work!
    "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.
  • Old_Slaphead
    Old_Slaphead Posts: 2,749 Forumite
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    for basic JSA/Rent/Council tax, I reckon about 12K for a single person.

    Just about equivalent to £5.73ph x 40 hours x 52weeks. Any point in a single person going to work?
  • Dr_DiNg_DoNg
    Dr_DiNg_DoNg Posts: 3,897 Forumite
    misskool wrote: »
    so, someone could go to work part time, at minimum wage to earn 12k a year or they could just sit at home all day and watch jeremy kyle without needing to do anything?

    I'm offended that my taxes are being raised so the long term unemployed get more benefits :(

    Even worse, I hope they dont do bookie offers or arb whilst sat on their !!!!!!!

    also 40 hrs on min wage would be about the same as JSA/Rent/CTax
  • Zagu
    Zagu Posts: 2,711 Forumite
    "I'm not even supposed to be here today."
  • bo_drinker
    bo_drinker Posts: 3,924 Forumite
    Give the lazy b astards more reason to stay @ home..... Can't be right.
    I came in to this world with nothing and I've still got most of it left. :rolleyes:
  • amersall
    amersall Posts: 17,037 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    thats the way of the world sadly, dont help your self and you are quids in.
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