MSE News: Benefits shake-up to introduce Universal Credits

Loanranger

moggylover wrote: »

Well, my uncle did a milk round before he started work for himself, and my aunt used to work evening shifts in a local factory so that she could still care for the kids during the day time.

However, that would never work nowadays, because there are hardly any jobs where you can have fixed shifts (employers want the flexibility to work for them not you) and there are hundreds of applicants for every job so you have no leverage to get them to let you work the shifts you want.

Furthermore, whilst you denigrate those small businesses that allow single parents to at least work around their children and the system that tops this up, until the UK has a huge amount more real work on sensible shift rotas to offer than it does now: that is probably the best there is on offer.

However, I would point out that I know a lady who got to be extremely comfortably off and ran a distribution centre for tupperware, who only started off intending to earn some pin money whilst the kids were at school.

I also know another who runs a secretarial services bureau from home because she is disabled. It wouldn't be the entrepreneurial star of the year, but it gives her her self-respect back and she deserves a pat on the back for so doing, not denigration because she doesn't look to earn millions.

Try the reality of being a single parent on benefits and being pressured to go back to work when there is no work and very little that is parent friendly, and that is why people are given the advice they are: and by the Jobcentre staff as well as on here.

Why not? Why should anyone stay at home and choose not to work?
There are jobs out there.
Why should jobs be parent friendly?

moggylover

Loanranger wrote: »

Why not? Why should anyone stay at home and choose not to work?
There are jobs out there.
Why should jobs be parent friendly?

There are VERY few jobs out there.

If someone has a child they are responsible for and no-one they can leave that child with then either the job needs to be workable around what hours the child is in school (despite all the claptrap to the contrary many areas have absolutely no childcare cover) or a creche facility needs to be there.

A friend is trying to get work at a local supermarket at the moment, she has two children, a husband who has sodded off abroad after 11 years together, and no-one else to turn to. She wanted to work days, and had even been able to say she could work one day of weekends because a friend was willing to have her kids with theirs for that day. She cannot get a job because they want her to be available for ALL shifts and she cannot agree to this because someone has to get the kids to school and be there whilst they are asleep because they are not old enough to be left alone over-night.

Actually, I also happen to think that work should be LIFE FRIENDLY;) and that people should actually be able to have a decent balance between family and work.

flight747

that's why i refuse work. i got a son and responsible for him who are disabled. they all want me to work weekend or full times but always limit at part time job, why should I bother look for work ? No ones cannot look after my son. The childcare don't want my son cos he severe disabled.

plumber2009

moggylover wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

What have you been smoking?

Its comments like this that make me laugh.

Let me guess? Are you a student who expects eveything handed to on a plate.

flight747

All disability and disabled should stay on benefits for lifetime because many jobs don't want to know or will ever employee any disabled or disability. Don't blame us or other disabled. Saw on bbc news couples of month ago, that 67% of disabled still out of work (not surprise me really)

plumber2009

flight747 wrote: »

that's why i refuse work. i got a son and responsible for him who are disabled. they all want me to work weekend or full times but always limit at part time job, why should I bother look for work ? No ones cannot look after my son. The childcare don't want my son cos he severe disabled.

EXCUSES, EXCUSES.

JUST BONE IDLE AND LAZY.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

GlasweJen

No, society is quite right to give disabled people a kick up the aris. It's been acceptable for far too long to use any old disability as an excuse not to work to the point where disabled people who do work are accused of being on the fiddle when really it's muppets like you, flight, that give us all a bad name.

So what you're deaf? get over it.

flight747

Don't F****king call me lazy ! I am carer for my son who severe disabled who also had severe disabled allowance!

plumber2009

truth hurts

flight747

I wish I earn £5,000 a month on benefits, I really do! I don't give a damn s*** if all of you are fit and healthy and not being deaf. Wait until you turn into 100% deafness and you will find out no ones ever give you any job cos you cannot communcation at all!