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DX2

healy wrote: »

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

I know when I go for my six monthly interview they try to give me bus fare :eek: bearing in mind the JCP is like 10 minutes from where I live and I walk there, I refuse and the JCP employee says even take it for a cup of coffee :rotfl:Aye thanks but no thanks.

DX2

Off Topic but twice now I have seen references towards willy as Cpt Haggis? Did Cpt get banned whilst I was away?

Aphrodite868

DX2 wrote: »

I know when I go for my six monthly interview they try to give me bus fare :eek: bearing in mind the JCP is like 10 minutes from where I live and I walk there, I refuse and the JCP employee says even take it for a cup of coffee :rotfl:Aye thanks but no thanks.

Why not get the free money?? lol

Wee_Willy_Harris

Fiver29 wrote: »

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?

I don't recollect making that particular rule. If you aren't happy with it, I suggest you take it up with your MP.

And please explain the Cpt Haggis?

Wee_Willy_Harris

Aphrodite868 wrote: »

Why not get the free money?? lol

Because it isn't free? Some people have standards.

Aphrodite868

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.?

Why should they have to?!

If its under 15mins walk max then it would be ok,
but once it gets to walking over 20minutes each way just to sign a piece of paper then leave, its just pointless and a waste of the person's time.

Aphrodite868

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Because it isn't free? Some people have standards.

Yes it is as the jobcentre staff are offering to give the person £1.80 free money...

(Money which does not need to be repaid as its their to spend on whatever they want)

DX2

Aphrodite868 wrote: »

Why not get the free money?? lol

Because it costs you nothing to walk, hey believe it or not not everyone on benefits takes, takes.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Aphrodite868 wrote: »

Yes it is as the jobcentre staff are offering to give the person £1.80 free money...

(Money which does not need to be repaid as its their to spend on whatever they want)

(sigh) It isn't free in that it didn't just appear, as if by magic. It came from government revenue, ie taxes.

Aphrodite868

DX2 wrote: »

Because it costs you nothing to walk, hey believe it or not not everyone on benefits takes, takes.

No you can use the money for whatever you want...

Like buying a coffee or some food as the jobcentre staff suggested. lol


Thats what i did when i claimed the £4 bus fare when i had to go jobcentre on a date that wasn't my normal sign-on.