Can someone on IB be forced to do community service?

AimeesMum_2

My partner is on IB - he has been given 90 hours community service by the courts to do painting and making tables etc in a workshop?

Can he be forced to do this or contact the courts again to ask them to look at giving him another sentance?

[Deleted User]

didnt he explain before sentencing that he was on IB?

tomjonesrules

AimeesMum wrote: »

My partner is 27yrs old and would like to get back to work after being on IB for 4 yrs for mental problems and depression.

We have seen a course that he would like to do for locksmith but this costs £1000. He would be able to come off IB and become self employed but we are already running an extremely tight ship at home and can't afford the course.

IB put him in touch with the princes trust but they only help people under 25. Is there anything similar?

Thanks

Seems like he is well on his way to being fit for work. Is there any reason why he is not able to do the Community Service tasks?

withabix

He could always go to prison instead!


This might seem like a harsh comment, however this may well have been the result if he had objected to the community service.

McKneff

Woould you rather he went to Jail for 3 months.

or he was fined £500, if he is on IB and pays it at £5 a month out of his IB, who would then be ultimately paying the fine.

What is the nature of his illness.

tatonette

AimeesMum
he has been given 90 hours community service by the courts .....
We have seen a course that he would like to do for locksmith!

Maybe he has realised that he wants to brush up on his burglary skills as he keeps getting caught!!!

Richard1075

why shouldn't he be punished for a crime? You haven't said what it was but if you break the law and get caught then you "do the time"

was it the depression/ mental health problems that led to the crime?

Sounds to me that he is more than ready to go into paid employment and stop sponging off other tax payers!

AimeesMum_2

We did think he was ready to go into paid employment. After speaking with his doctor - the doctor recommended that he was weaned off his medication before going back to work as it can leave him very sleepy. Over a three week period he was lowering the dosage to a dosage that made him less sleepy and spaced out.

However, it must have triggered something and the hallucinations and paranoia started again and he tried to commit suicide.

He was given community service for fighting a man who grabbed me in our flat close and wouldn't let me go. They initally had a fight (the man lives in our close) and nothing happened. But then on one of his many nights that he stays awake all night, he stupidly got it into his head that the man was trying to kick our door down and the had another fight and the police got involved this time.

He did ask for a fine and was told that he was given one and if he didn't pay start making payments for it within 2 months then he would be given community service. I phoned the fines office (this was 2 weeks ago) to pay and they came back saying that there was no fine. Then yesterday the letter came through for his community service.

dseventy

One would have thought that if he can fight once, then leap from bed and do it all over again, a community sentance would be up his street.

Did he not think of the consquences of either a fine (£) or community sentance whilst on benefits?

D70

Louise03

I think it would benefit him to get out and do the community service, he may find in the long term it gives him a taste for work.

eskimo26

tatonette wrote: »

Maybe he has realised that he wants to brush up on his burglary skills as he keeps getting caught!!!

Hahaha..... oh no wait its not even burglary that makes a rubbish joke so much less funny. Don't give up your day job.

Richard1075 wrote: »

why shouldn't he be punished for a crime? You haven't said what it was but if you break the law and get caught then you "do the time"

was it the depression/ mental health problems that led to the crime?

Sounds to me.... blah blah blah

She's answered your query below and personal opinion belongs in DT as per the rules for this part of the forum we have to keep it factual.

AimeesMum wrote: »

However, it must have triggered something and the hallucinations and paranoia started again and he tried to commit suicide.

He was given community service for fighting a man who grabbed me in our flat close and wouldn't let me go. They initally had a fight (the man lives in our close) and nothing happened. But then on one of his many nights that he stays awake all night, he stupidly got it into his head that the man was trying to kick our door down and the had another fight and the police got involved this time.

dseventy wrote: »

One would have thought that if he can fight once, then leap from bed and do it all over again, a community sentance would be up his street.

Did he not think of the consquences of either a fine (£) or community sentance whilst on benefits?

D70

Did you cross post? Difficult to think of consequences when your hallucinating, no?

He did ask for a fine and was told that he was given one and if he didn't pay start making payments for it within 2 months then he would be given community service. I phoned the fines office (this was 2 weeks ago) to pay and they came back saying that there was no fine. Then yesterday the letter came through for his community service.

This is relevant information that really needed to be at the start. So you believe they've mixed up his sentence? Whos number
do you have to chase it up? The lawyer? Anyone else? Surely the lawyer would know his sentence.