New Deal

Reverbe

Our local Jobcentre is recently putting everyone I know on New Deal causing them to have to visit every week in addtion to their signing on day thus adding another 2 bus fares at least a week ( bus fare here is £1.30 ) This is going to cost me the equivalent of half a weeks shopping money(or at least several meals worth) just to get my money. Is it right that they effectively cost you money to get the money you need to live on? All concerned that I know including myself are older people who want to work, apply for over 50 jobs a week and have many many years experience and skills and qualifications coming out their ears.

There is nothing that this New Deal can do to benefit them and their searches (unless the Jobcentre find them a permanent fulltime job long term) and will actually make them financially worse off.At the moment I am living on one meal a day of value noodles and this will cost me the equivalent of 26 meals.:eek::eek::mad:

What makes it worse for my flatmate is that they make him go in every week and he is not even getting any money from them?!!!!

Fiver29

If you're not working can't you walk? Unless it's more than an hour or two each way I can't see why you'd need to get the bus.

healy

Reverbe wrote: »

Our local Jobcentre is recently putting everyone I know on New Deal causing them to have to visit every week in addtion to their signing on day thus adding another 2 bus fares at least a week ( bus fare here is £1.30 ) This is going to cost me the equivalent of half a weeks shopping money(or at least several meals worth) just to get my money. Is it right that they effectively cost you money to get the money you need to live on? All concerned that I know including myself are older people who want to work, apply for over 50 jobs a week and have many many years experience and skills and qualifications coming out their ears.

There is nothing that this New Deal can do to benefit them and their searches (unless the Jobcentre find them a permanent fulltime job long term) and will actually make them financially worse off.At the moment I am living on one meal a day of value noodles and this will cost me the equivalent of 26 meals.:eek::eek::mad:

What makes it worse for my flatmate is that they make him go in every week and he is not even getting any money from them?!!!!

I thought that if you had to go in other than your normal sign on days that they paid traveling expenses.

newlywed

I am not on new deal (as far as I know) but have been told for the next 6 weeks I have to sign on every week, however I have been told the weeks that wouldn't be my usual sign on week, I can claim back bus fare (so I can claim for the 3 unusual extra sign on dates).

So make sure you ask - I was told to claim it at each unusual sign-on (if that makes sense).

I was told it would be reimbursed into my bank in about 3 days.



Not that it really helps, but bus fare here is £1.80 each way (so i walk the 2 1/2 miles there on the weeks I can't claim )

Fiver29

healy wrote: »

I thought that if you had to go in other than your normal sign on days that they paid traveling expenses.

You are kidding surely?

newlywed

Fiver29 wrote: »

You are kidding surely?

How far do you think £65 a week goes when you have to buy food, gas, electric, mobile (to be contactable by employers/ring about jobs), bus fare to job center, bus fare to who knows how many interviews etc?

When living on very little, even having to pay £3 to get to a job interview or to make extra trips to the job center is difficult.

It's no good going to a job interview with your stomach gurgling and feeling faint from not having eaten for 24 hours is it?

healy

Fiver29 wrote: »

You are kidding surely?

No, this is how it has been for a very long time.

Witter

Ive been looking for help for my sister and her partner with help going back to work and came across something on jobcentre website that says if you have to attend jobcentre on any day other than normal signing day you can claim it back only if you travel using cheapest option, you have to show proof at jc so keep your tickets.

Fiver29

newlywed wrote: »

How far do you think £65 a week goes when you have to buy food, gas, electric, mobile (to be contactable by employers/ring about jobs), bus fare to job center, bus fare to who knows how many interviews etc?

When living on very little, even having to pay £3 to get to a job interview or to make extra trips to the job center is difficult.

It's no good going to a job interview with your stomach gurgling and feeling faint from not having eaten for 24 hours is it?

I'm not talking about interviews, I'm talking about going to the JC, which can easily be done on a gurgling stomach <rolleyes>. What's wrong with walking? Even school kids can manage to walk miles to school with bags full of books, are you telling me a fully grown adult can't walk a few miles to a job centre, carrying nothing but i.d.?

Wee_Willy_Harris

Fiver29 wrote: »

I'm not talking about interviews, I'm talking about going to the JC, which can easily be done on a gurgling stomach <rolleyes>. What's wrong with walking? Even school kids can manage to walk miles to school with bags full of books, are you telling me a fully grown adult can't walk a few miles to a job centre, carrying nothing but i.d.?

It all went wrong for you when Queen Victoria died.

Fiver29

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

It all went wrong for you when Queen Victoria died.

Nothing to do with history. Just look at any council site and you'll see that over 11's are expected to walk 3 miles to or from school, before the councils will think of giving them a bus pass. Under 11's are expected to walk 2.5 miles. Yet according to the info above, able bodied adults are being given the bus fares to go to the JC one extra day a week.

Perhaps you can explain why a child can walk but an adult can't then [STRIKE]Cpt Haggis[/STRIKE] Wee Willy?