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

LumpyCustard_2

Dr_DiNg_DoNg wrote: »

for basic JSA/Rent/Council tax, I reckon about 12K for a single person.

Well, not everyone on JSA will get housing benefit or council tax - I certainly don't. Currently JSA works out at about £1.50 an hour, or £3.3K a year (except that I won't be able to get it for that long), so definitely worth going back to work.

It's not possible to live on JSA alone - even with a very restricted budget. Any increase will be very welcome.

Dr_DiNg_DoNg

LumpyCustard wrote: »

Well, not everyone on JSA will get housing benefit or council tax - I certainly don't. Currently JSA works out at about £1.50 an hour, or £3.3K a year (except that I won't be able to get it for that long), so definitely worth going back to work.

It's not possible to live on JSA alone - even with a very restricted budget. Any increase will be very welcome.

If you take a single person over 21 or whatever the age is, who pays rent and council tax, as most people do, then the figure is correct.

mitchaa

Dr_DiNg_DoNg wrote: »

Lovely, a nice little surprise.

Source please.

It does not make the blindest bit of difference that you have quoted it. Without the source it's just fictional nonsense.

Dr_DiNg_DoNg

mitchaa wrote: »

Source please.

It does not make the blindest bit of difference that you have quoted it. Without the source it's just fictional nonsense.

Its only 24 hours till the budget silly, I can wait that long to see your knickers get into a twist

vivatifosi

Out of interest and purely hypothetically Dr_Ding_Dong, how would you feel if the government used the same anti-terrorist legislation that it has used to spy on bins etc, to look into peoples' web histories and identify the ISPs/locations of posters on benefits but discussing on web forums how they would need to be able to earn £14 per hour to be as well off working?

Dr_DiNg_DoNg

vivatifosi wrote: »

Out of interest and purely hypothetically Dr_Ding_Dong, how would you feel if the government used the same anti-terrorist legislation that it has used to spy on bins etc, to look into peoples' web histories and identify the ISPs/locations of posters on benefits but discussing on web forums how they would need to be able to earn £14 per hour to be as well off working?

Good luck to them I say!

Chris2685

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

My GF is on maternity leave now, but she was earning less than 12k PA working full time (school hours, so only 30 hours a week in reality) as a teaching assistant being paid above minimum wage...

No wonder people don't want to bother working!

Rochdale_Pioneers

An extra £15 a week on JSA will be immediately fed back into the economy on increased tabs/booze/frozen turkey things. If you're on the dole you don't save, you spend. Thats what we need people to do at the moment.

Count_Dante

It is for this reason that the implementation of the minimum wage has had no impact on unemployment. If given the option of minimum wage work or benefits, who will take the minimum wage? Myself, I'd get onto disability benefit with a nasty dose of depression or a bad back.

KimYeovil

Chris2685 wrote: »

My GF is on maternity leave now, but she was earning less than 12k PA working full time (school hours, so only 30 hours a week in reality) as a teaching assistant being paid above minimum wage...

So she was earning nearly 16K per annum, not 12K.

But I'm not convinced that JSA will be going up from £280 per month to £345 per month.

It's not possible to live on JSA alone - even with a very restricted budget. Any increase will be very welcome.

Rubbish. £280 per month 'not possible'? Nonsense. Many workers have less than that (once traveling expenses are included.)