Its a wonderful life... Want to try.....?? A Single parents View.. !!xx!

looby75

westernpromise wrote:

The trouble is that those on the take are apparently allowed to decide whether to stay on the take or not. In a fair system, this should not be the claimant's decision, it should be the taxpayer's.

If there are any vacancies at the local job centre, nobody in that area should be getting any dole at all unless they can prove they cannot do any of those jobs. Proof would be a letter from all those employers, rejecting their application.

If they cannot show that, and hence the vacancies remain, then the assumption should be that that claimant is not trying to get work, and they should have their payments reduced to somewhere below the level of the lowest-paid job advertised. This measure would provide them with the economic incentive they need to take any job at all rather than stay on the dole.

It is irrelevant whether taking those jobs would make the claimant economically worse off. If it does, too bad. Their not doing so makes all the rest of us economically worse off. Claimants should not be entitled to choose the dole as an alternative career. People with 7 A-levels most certainly should not be entitled to do so. The dole is a safety net for people who have fallen on hard times, not for people who have made foolish or selfish lifestyles choices.

It would be tough for some people initially having to get out of bed 5 days a week when they have been used to idleness for years. But it is a necessary first step if such people are to rejoin the human race.

Not exactly relevant to single parents though is it. Your post sounds more as though it should be aimed at people without children. If you can recommend a job that would be happy with me having to leave at no notice for days at a time to look after my sick son then I'd be happy to take it. Honestly I would, as of yet I haven't even found a training course (set up by the jobcentre or otherwise) that lets you have that amount of flexibility, never mind a job.

skylight

Scarlett1 wrote:

I think we are all getting bored with the single parent debate now so lets try something different for some people to get their claws into, what about the good for nothing lazy single guys on JSA sitting in their council flat smoking canabis and going out boozing every friday night

Or perhaps the MANY Fraudsters, claiming DLA whilst driving a Jag (was it a Jag??) and very few are imprisioned over it - so worth the deception???

black-saturn

I'm getting fed up with going round in circles now. I will do the best for my children and my children only. If some tax payer I have never met dislikes that i would like them to take it up with the government and not accuse me of fraud when they havn't even met me. If anyone else accuses me of fraud I will report them to abuse.

Scarlett1

charlotte664 wrote:

Or perhaps the MANY Fraudsters, claiming DLA whilst driving a Jag (was it a Jag??) and very few are imprisioned over it - so worth the deception???

or the recent one I saw on tv the guy who was on the sick with a bad back and had his own window cleaning round on the sly

wigginsmum

Getting back to single parents, what would make the most difference to you personally:

- A greater income
- A job with more flexibility
- Better childcare options/help

Kimberley

Hiya Mandy, good post.

I was a single mum before i got my first part time job in March. Basically i'm better off working, although i get working/child tax credits to top my wages up. I feel far better mentally and physically working. I feel that even when the kids are grown up and i no longer get the extra income, i will continue to work. I can't see myself not working now.

I wouldn't be on benefit rather then working if benefit means you have more to live on because of my self worth and what about teaching your kids about the pros of working?

I felt depressed when i wasn't working, my life has changed for the better.

I wouldn't not work and stay on benefits just for more money for anything.

It took me a long time to find this job, i've been on benefits for so long and started looking for work since my youngest started full time school 4 years ago and nothing will make me go back to living off benefits alone.

krisskross

black-saturn wrote:

I. If anyone else accuses me of fraud I will report them to abuse.

Where did anyone accuse you of fraud? But if the cap fits..........

Fraud is claiming money you are not ENTITLED to. I think we all agree that according to present guidelines a sole parent with school age or under children can claim welfare benefits. The question is whether these benefits should be claimed if the parent is able to work but just chooses not to.

black-saturn

krisskross wrote:

Where did anyone accuse you of fraud? But if the cap fits..........

Fraud is claiming money you are not ENTITLED to. I think we all agree that according to present guidelines a sole parent with school age or under children can claim welfare benefits. The question is whether these benefits should be claimed if the parent is able to work but just chooses not to.

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Dave_liverpool wrote:

A mortgage can be paid off with an inheritance, not just earnt money. To go from an abusive relationship to a hostel into rented to a full paid house in 5 years, theres got to be either
a) a death
b) fraud
c) a pack of lies

looby75

wigginsmum wrote:

Getting back to single parents, what would make the most difference to you personally:

- A greater income
- A job with more flexibility
- Better childcare options/help

For me personally it would be a job with more flexibility and better childcare options (don't want much do I lol) As I've said before my son can and does get ill quite often, I have been called too pick him up from school more times than I can remember now. His teacher says she has never met a child like him, happy healthy and full of life one minute then miserable, burning up and in pain the next. So at this point I would need a job that was VERY flexible. But even when he's better and not getting ENT problems anymore as a single parent I would still need a certain amount of flexibility in any job I get. When you are on your own it is down to you to do all of the parent stuff, such as doctors appointments, dentists, parents evening (which are never in the evening lol) school plays, sports days etc. You can't share the load with a partner so that you only have to have half the amount of time out for those things, so a flexible working arrangement is the ideal.

Then of course there is the childcare issue, any childcare would be good LOL the childcare situation where I live is appalling, child care places in any form are few and far between, and if you are lucky enough to be able to find a place for your child you have to pay a lot more for it than in areas where childcare provisions are adequate.

viktory

You are not named in that post. Yuo are simply assuming the poster is talking about you.