The jobless are no shirking scroungers – you try living on £65.45 a week

abaxas

Shakethedisease wrote: »

There aren't enough of them to go round at the moment.

Doesnt mean she shouldnt try.

headcoat

£65.45 plus all the other benefits, such as rent paid, council tax paid, water rates paid, prescription charges paid, and many many more....now add it all up and see how much a week it comes to......go to McDonalds or Burger King and get a job....simple!!!

I just came back from town and saw at least three shops advertising, there are jobs out there you just have to get out there and claim the travel allowance back, and stamps back and claim for a new suit.

The_White_Horse

Spartacus_Mills wrote: »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/30/general-election-unemployment-poverty

Pity them all. Time to raise JSA to £100 a week.

I would love to know what The_White_Horse thinks

At the end of the day they are getting money for nothing and should be grateful for anything.

I am all for workers who have been made redundant having proper benefits, that actually helps them for a while. If someone earns/needs 500 per week, then 65 is worthless to them. they should get 500 for say, 6 months, and then nothing. meanwhile no one should get job seekers for more than 6 months. it is an allowance whilst seeking ajob, it is not a salary. it is not to live on indefinitely. it is a few quid to help out.

what about all the other benefits these people get?

i'd like to see their houses. they moan, but i bet they get housing benefit, pay no council tax, have a car, eat out, have a big plasma, a pc with broadband, a mobile and so on and on and on.

real people, who have worked and paid in should be properly helped when they need it. layabouts and scroungers should get nothing.

kai666

Shakethedisease wrote: »

There aren't enough of them to go round at the moment.

And yet the job centres, papers etc are full of job adverts

robin_banks

Tbf most jobs go to people already in employment, but she's an oxford graduate and I'm struggling to understand how she can have out of work for so long.

ILW

robin_banks wrote: »

Tbf most jobs go to people already in employment, but she's an oxford graduate and I'm struggling to understand how she can have out of work for so long.

Probably waiting for a job that is good enough for her.

A._Badger

Funny how the chorus of abuse that howls like a Now Show audience at any article from the Mail, falls silent when a piece from the (equally biased) Guardian is posted.

dealsearcher

Unfortunately some people have come to think of benefit as a right. It is not, or should be not.

It is true that having little money and being unemployed is mentally debilitating. What you do have is time, and lots of it. Use it to find something worthwhile to do with your life.

BitterAndTwisted

headcoat wrote: »

£65.45 plus all the other benefits, such as rent paid, council tax paid, water rates paid, prescription charges paid, and many many more....

Yes, rent and council tax paid but I'm paying nearly £10 a week out of my JSA for my water-rates. That doesn't leave much for other bills, never mind the heating and hot-water. There might be additional benefits available to families but for single people there's nothing.

It's very, very difficult to keep positive when every single application has been met with complete silence for nearly six months.

I've been reduced to selling my personal possessions to make enough to cover the utility bills and it's going to get tougher when there's nothing else left to sell, which will be quite soon.

It's a whole under-class of f e c k l e s s, irresponsible benefit scroungers when they're working-class no-goodniks but a tragedy of epic proportions once it starts affecting the educated middle-classes.

Jomo

Shakethedisease wrote: »

There aren't enough of them to go round at the moment.

More like their skills would only get a NMW job which they already get in benefits....in fact benefits, in some cases, would pay them more! :eek: