Benefits shake-up: warning for non-working claimants

KxMx

How about the Government creating jobs, that will cut the JSA bill and raise revenue. But no, they're sacking thousands of civil servants and are not allowed to stop EU immigration!

AnxiousMum wrote: »

Good job that there will be three strikes before you're out then.

Yes but those 3 strikes involve loss of all money for a period of time with no right of appeal and few hardship funds.

alwaysonthego_2

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

I believe that this should read "Addressing the concerns of disabled people".

If you really want to be politically correct it should be "Addressing the concerns of people with disabilties". Your statement suggests that the person is disabled rather than they have a disabilty

nzseries1

MSE_Guy wrote: »

"Tough welfare rules will strip the unemployed of handouts for up to three years if they refuse to work..."

Hooray!!

wrightk

how about creating more jobs for the entry level unskilled worker making it pay to work rather than stripping people of benefits forcing them to find work that just isnt out there (in most cases)

I say this as a full time worker 40+ hours a week,
I know how hard it is to find work and even find a better paid job than im in now, ive been searching for 2 years!

prosaver

KxMx wrote: »

How about the Government creating jobs, that will cut the JSA bill and raise revenue. But no, they're sacking thousands of civil servants and are not allowed to stop EU immigration!



Yes but those 3 strikes involve loss of all money for a period of time with no right of appeal and few hardship funds.

Unemployment is an unbalance between the supply and the demand of working hours. We all know that the efficiency of all types of machines is increasing yearly. We need fewer people to produce the same goods. Work time has been reduced in the past 200 years from about 12 hours a day to less then 8 hours per day and the working week from 7 days to 5. The way to stop Unemployment and have everybody working, is to continue the historical trend; is to distribute the available work between all persons that want to work. This we can do if each person works fewer hours per week
tell your mp to get his finger out

KxMx

You make some good points there. But although I expect most machinery is made abroad, once it gets here you still need workers to deliver it, install it, run it, maintain it, service it and clean it. So although there is less work, perhaps it isn't as low as you'd think.

liam8282

prosaver wrote: »

Unemployment is an unbalance between the supply and the demand of working hours. We all know that the efficiency of all types of machines is increasing yearly. We need fewer people to produce the same goods. Work time has been reduced in the past 200 years from about 12 hours a day to less then 8 hours per day and the working week from 7 days to 5. The way to stop Unemployment and have everybody working, is to continue the historical trend; is to distribute the available work between all persons that want to work. This we can do if each person works fewer hours per week
tell your mp to get his finger out

Let's have a 3 day weekend (but get paid the same of course!). :rotfl::T

corbyboy

Does anybody know how the enforced work placement is going to be compatible with the mimimum wage regulations?

pwales_2

if there is a job there for somone on the dole to do for there money, then there should be a "paying" job doing it full time so the person is not on the dole anyway

prosaver

liam8282 wrote: »

Let's have a 3 day weekend (but get paid the same of course!). :rotfl::T

maybe it will happen :j
:rotfl: :beer: :rotfl: