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  • System
    System Posts: 178,377 Community Admin
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    SarEl wrote: »
    I don't know about anyone else but mine was a serious answer. I know plenty of people in work who cannot afford £600 cameras, and android phones. And I don't know anyone out of work who can. So I am genuinely interested in why the OP needs me to pay for their bus fares and lunches, because I appear to be paying already for cameras and android phones.
    I have an android phone, bought it with my xmas money from relatives last year-you can get it for about £35 on PAYG...
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  • LadyMissA
    LadyMissA Posts: 3,263 Forumite
    Lith wrote: »
    This 30hrs thing will never work,


    i cant see the doler's getting out of bed Monday to Friday 30 hours for £60..... Give them £250 then they just might Ha, this whole thing will collapse.
    how will it colapse? They will just stop the JSA if you don't do it
  • Lith
    Lith Posts: 897 Forumite
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    LadyMissA wrote: »
    how will it colapse? They will just stop the JSA if you don't do it

    Ways around that,

    trust me.. i have a brother who's been on jsa for years...
    • HSBC (Main A/C)
    • Halifax Back up A/C
    • Lloyds (Spending) A/C
    • RBS Back up A/C
    • Barclays Old A/C
    • Nationwide Old A/C
  • LadyMissA
    LadyMissA Posts: 3,263 Forumite
    Lith wrote: »
    Ways around that,

    trust me.. i have a brother who's been on jsa for years...

    so then he is on the WP now?
  • scheming_gypsy
    scheming_gypsy Posts: 18,410 Forumite
    Lith wrote: »
    i have a brother who's been on jsa for years...
    LadyMissA wrote: »
    so then he is on the WP now?


    nah, probably the XBox.
  • Lith
    Lith Posts: 897 Forumite
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    LadyMissA wrote: »
    so then he is on the WP now?

    I need to ask him, he's on something, but over time tho when he could get in trouble (i dont how he does it or what he says) but he would talk or write his way out of a sanction and other things..... makes me sick

    one time he turned up late several times to sign on but during that day he managed to still 'sign on' he's either the best Bs'er known to man or... the JC have gotten soft.

    scheming_gypsy wrote: »
    nah, probably the XBox.


    out on the P|ss more like, makes me sick.. sometimes i feel ashamed hes my brother everyone in the family work.
    • HSBC (Main A/C)
    • Halifax Back up A/C
    • Lloyds (Spending) A/C
    • RBS Back up A/C
    • Barclays Old A/C
    • Nationwide Old A/C
  • CFC
    CFC Posts: 3,119 Forumite
    Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »
    If I'm not working I don't have breakfast and I often don't have lunch as I stay in bed to keep warm without putting the heating on.

    If I am working I have to have breakfast and lunch or I start getting ill.

    Poor baby.
  • Polyhymnia
    Polyhymnia Posts: 15 Forumite
    Lith wrote: »
    This 30hrs thing will never work,


    i cant see the doler's getting out of bed Monday to Friday 30 hours for £60..... Give them £250 then they just might Ha, this whole thing will collapse.

    Absolutely, I'm a young person who doesn't get housing benefit ect, but just £50 a week. I am just one of the hundreds of thousands of unemployed youth who are expected to get a job without skills or experience in the middle of a recession or failing that participate in a work programme that has all the work of a job but none of the benefits (i.e pays the minimum wage).
  • scheming_gypsy
    scheming_gypsy Posts: 18,410 Forumite
    Polyhymnia wrote: »
    Absolutely, I'm a young person who doesn't get housing benefit ect, but just £50 a week. I am just one of the hundreds of thousands of unemployed youth who are expected to get a job without skills or experience in the middle of a recession or failing that participate in a work programme that has all the work of a job but none of the benefits (i.e pays the minimum wage).


    Funny thing is, before the minimum wage was introduced you could legally work for £50 a week. I went from the YTS at about £35 a week and £20 cash in hand, to £50 a week as staff when i was 17
  • Polyhymnia
    Polyhymnia Posts: 15 Forumite
    scheming_gypsy wrote: »
    Funny thing is, before the minimum wage was introduced you could legally work for £50 a week. I went from the YTS at about £35 a week and £20 cash in hand, to £50 a week as staff when i was 17

    That's really helpful, because I've always wanted to work for less than the National minimum wage and pretend I'm in the 1980's.

    On second thoughts it's probably a good thing to have the NMW. ;)
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