The Work Programme New Thread

grai

Nuisance91 wrote: »

Starting the work programme today. Read some of the comments in here and I must say, Im dreading it.

the thread here Nuiscance91 is mostly people COMING OFF the Work Programme after 2 years and going 2 and 3 times a week into the Job Centre

my advice to you is get work in the next 2 years and if the Work Programme helps you all well and good (I doubt it will though)

I wish they had told me what was at the end of the 2 years

I would have tried to be off the dole and sidestep all the stress of being hounded like I am now

we were given no warning which I think is really typical - incompetent and insensitive

AP007

grai wrote: »

the thread here Nuiscance91 is mostly people COMING OFF the Work Programme after 2 years and going 2 and 3 times a week into the Job Centre

my advice to you is get work in the next 2 years and if the Work Programme helps you all well and good (I doubt it will though)

I wish they had told me what was at the end of the 2 years

I would have tried to be off the dole and sidestep all the stress of being hounded like I am now

we were given no warning which I think is really typical - incompetent and insensitive

only the last few pages are to be fair the rest is about being on it and how rubbish it is etc

Advice to get work in the next two year? LOL

Seriously? Is that not what we are all looking for.............you know WORK!!!

leroy28

yeah the work programme is fine, they didnt bother me at all, hardly ever seen them, so no complaining here, if i was you guys id say you think its brilliant if they ask you to review, remember when they made you come in every day 9-5 doing jobsearch, now that pure torture

AP007

leroy28 wrote: »

yeah the work programme is fine, they didnt bother me at all, hardly ever seen them, so no complaining here, if i was you guys id say you think its brilliant if they ask you to review, remember when they made you come in every day 9-5 doing jobsearch, now that pure torture

who has been there 5 days a week to job search?

Nuisance91

grai wrote: »

the thread here Nuiscance91 is mostly people COMING OFF the Work Programme after 2 years and going 2 and 3 times a week into the Job Centre

my advice to you is get work in the next 2 years and if the Work Programme helps you all well and good (I doubt it will though)

I wish they had told me what was at the end of the 2 years

I would have tried to be off the dole and sidestep all the stress of being hounded like I am now

we were given no warning which I think is really typical - incompetent and insensitive

First meeting wasnt bad, just signed the relevant paper work but they want me in next Tuesday. They didnt say anything about what will happen after two years though.

I really hope I do get something in the next two years, its a very long time not to get something but I know that life is hard sometimes and that means people go on unemployed for years and years.

ray1971

Yes unfortunately some people get settled on JSA and have no intention of working; I know people in their 40's or 50' who have never worked.....ever!!!These are going to find it tough once their 2 yrs on WP are over- and either tougher still after the next 6 months once DWP roll out its long term mandatory work scheme...

grai

ray1971 wrote: »

Yes unfortunately some people get settled on JSA and have no intention of working; I know people in their 40's or 50' who have never worked.....ever!!!These are going to find it tough once their 2 yrs on WP are over- and either tougher still after the next 6 months once DWP roll out its long term mandatory work scheme...

If anything the Work Programme prolonged my staying on benefits because I mistakenly took it as a cue to go through the motions the way they were doing!

I regret that now but I was just taking their lead

it would have been to the advantage of the Work Programme staff to be able to say "look get something during this time because it's game over after this"

they could have really motivated people with a bit of healthy scare-mongering about what was to follow after the 2 years!

but they didn't know themselves

also their advice is completely contradicts what the Job Centre are now saying - the WP told me to only go for jobs I'd had experience in

now the JC are saying "your job search isn't realistic you have to broaden it" - totally opposite advice!

there is just no joined up thinking

it would have been more fair and more considerate to give us a warning

But they need the work at the Job Centre - we are bums on seats for them. Gives them something to do

badly

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My hubby is coming off the work program next week. But his case is a bit different, 2 weeks after starting the program, he found a job, that job lasted 22 months, so 6 weeks ago, he was returned to the program.

Enable, who contract for A4E, say 2 years are up, off you go, the job centre says NO, because he got a job so quickly his return 6 weeks ago, should have reset the 2 years.

They don't have a clue what to do with him.

ray1971

If he started the WP then the 2 year period is a 2 year period-it doesn't reset.He should now return to the jobcentre as a WP completer and will probably fall under the jobcentre 'business as usual' programe and not their ' mandatory intensive regime' as he has recent work experience.

AP007

ilikethesimpsons wrote: »

My hubby is coming off the work program next week. But his case is a bit different, 2 weeks after starting the program, he found a job, that job lasted 22 months, so 6 weeks ago, he was returned to the program.

Enable, who contract for A4E, say 2 years are up, off you go, the job centre says NO, because he got a job so quickly his return 6 weeks ago, should have reset the 2 years.

They don't have a clue what to do with him.

You have to get a job that takes you past the 2 year point from when you started the WP

So for example if you started the WP on 1st July 2011 and got a job in November 2011 but it ended in May 2013 you would go back to the WP till its 2nd July 2013