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The jobless are no shirking scroungers – you try living on £65.45 a week
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A friend of mine who's other half works for social services in Liverpool, said there is more than a minority of people in the region who's focus in life is to scam the system for as much as possible, without doing a single days work in their entire lives.
Not everyone without work is looking and it's these people who need help, dare I say even be forced to work - tidying up the local area, would be a start.0 -
After 3 years of being on JSA, somebody's most likely to be the "can't be 4rsed" type. So maybe JSA should be renamed CBA after 3 years. And claiming CBA excludes you from all the extra freebies going (like reduced entry, free entry, free courses). Then reduce the benefit by 3% each year, and the benefit is ONLY paid if you are at the JobCentre at 9am each Monday and Tuesday (give them a feel for getting up and being somewhere on time).0
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PasturesNew wrote: ». . . and the benefit is ONLY paid if you are at the JobCentre at 9am each Monday and Tuesday (give them a feel for getting up and being somewhere on time).
But doesn't this mean a new benefit will have to be created? Bit unfair to expect people who can't afford a watch to get anywhere on time.
Free Rolexes all round.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »After 3 years of being on JSA, somebody's most likely to be the "can't be 4rsed" type. So maybe JSA should be renamed CBA after 3 years. And claiming CBA excludes you from all the extra freebies going (like reduced entry, free entry, free courses). Then reduce the benefit by 3% each year, and the benefit is ONLY paid if you are at the JobCentre at 9am each Monday and Tuesday (give them a feel for getting up and being somewhere on time).
That is GENIUS. :T:T:T
Love it.
You should have a career as a social policy thinker.
Do you think we could take it a bit further and rename all our benefits system to more accurately reflect their true recipients?
Could be most entertaining...0 -
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Shakethedisease wrote: »There aren't enough of them to go round at the moment.
Job Centre has loads!! I have been made redundant 2times in 2 years and I have never been out of work for longer then 2 weeks..0 -
RichardBurns wrote: »Job Centre has loads!! I have been made redundant 2times in 2 years and I have never been out of work for longer then 2 weeks..
lol 'the' jobcentre
the fact is there are less jobs available than the number of unemployed0
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