Jobcentres send you 90 miles for job?

roy_harper

Is this right?

Are Jobcentres seriously being told to offer clients jobs 45 miles there and 45 back in day.

Tot up the cost of travel, rent/mortgage and deduct that from minimum wage!

And if you don't go for interview, at your own expense from JSA - you get your JSA stopped anyway.
:eek:

2sides2everystory

If true, then the system has collapsed. Man the lifeboats.

Those t|ts in Parliament and Whitehall may have totally lost the plot.

NASA_2

That doesnt sound all that excessive. Plenty of people travel that and more every day for minimum wage.

marywooyeah

thats just ridiculous, there's no way that is a feasible commute!

Fiddlestick

roy_harper wrote: »

Are Jobcentres seriously being told to offer clients jobs 45 miles there and 45 back in day.

When I was last unemployed I was willing to commute many times this for work.

In fact when I was a student I commuted more than this daily for University.

I wouldn't *like* to do it again, but if it's a toss up between doing it and not paying the rent...

sammyjammy

I believe you can be expected to travel one hour each way, whether your 45 miles meets that criteria would depend on transport available and where you live.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

NASA wrote: »

That doesnt sound all that excessive. Plenty of people travel that and more every day for minimum wage.

My husband travels 57 miles there and 57 miles back to work every day.
Its not as if hes a youngster either he's turned 60 now and has had to do this for the past ten years.

2sides2everystory

You cannot expect someone to commute 45 miles each way unless they are earning enough for the cost of the commute to be insignificant.

It is also socially divisive and wholly ungreen to create significant parts of the workforce doing this. Think how many of them pass each other going in opposite directions, wasting hours of their family time and huge quantities of energy for what? A national minimum wage?

There are evidently too many people on here who are as clueless about what is reasonable and constructive as the politicians and Whitehall twerps.

Mrs Tittlemouse, your husband doesn't do that journey for a minimum wage, does he now?

MrsManda

I thought it was upto a 90 minute commute rather than a 90 miles radius?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/04/conservatives-reveal-tougher-rules-jobseekers

As Sammy said, the distance really depends on the transport available.

skintbint_2

sammyjammy wrote: »

I believe you can be expected to travel one hour each way, whether your 45 miles meets that criteria would depend on transport available and where you live.

it is actually 90mins either way that the government expect people to travel

patman99

You can tell the JC+ to get lost if you can prove that it takes more than 90 minutes to get there by public transport (don't forget to add on the time it takes you to walk to the bust stop/train station, then in to the place of work.