JSA Sanctions - Beer Money for Claimant Advisers?

baza52

cit_k wrote: »

The lazy ones lounging around, chatting, gossipping etc tend to be the staff, not the claimaints.

haha :beer:

Dunroamin

baza52 wrote: »

Id love to but im too busy working.
And paying for all the OAP's single mums etc. oh and the small minority of jobseekers.
Most of which i asume had paid enough NI like you and me.

I don't think OAPs normally have single mums.;)

Mara69

sofaman wrote: »

Erm, where did you get the 10-minutes of work from? Looking for work is a full-time endevour!

sofaman, look!! Quick, over there! It's the point. Ah, no. You missed it.

Better luck next time.

Have to say, there are a lot of hysterical drama queens on this thread. My son claims JSA. He gets on well with his advisor and is looking hard for a job. He meets all their criteria but has been late to sign on a couple of times....he apologised and wasn't sanctioned. He was put forward for a training course. When we received the details we realised it was not possible to get to it via public transport. He explained, they understood and he wasn't sanctioned.

Perhaps it is just his charm and winning smile that hid advisors like.

exprog

baza52 wrote: »

There are NO minimum wage jobs going that 20+ people are not applying for.

Very true, and most of them are not full time, just a few hours for pin money really.

But reality is no barrier to inadequate, ignorant morons.

McKneff

baza52 wrote: »

Id love to but im too busy working.
And paying for all the OAP's single mums etc. oh and the small minority of jobseekers.
Most of which i asume had paid enough NI like you and me.

er, as an OAP, youre not paying for me pet, 47 years of working and paying into the system is what is paying for my state pension, all 60 odd quid a week. Thank you very much

Vincent_Buenisedes

McKneff wrote: »

er, as an OAP, youre not paying for me pet, 47 years of working and paying into the system is what is paying for my state pension, all 60 odd quid a week. Thank you very much

Actually, it's the current crop of taxpayers that are paying for your pension and perks, just as today's children will become futre taxpayers and pay for the current lot's pension (if there are pensions in the future). The contributions that you had made in the past would have been spent in the same way. Tax revenues seem to be thought of as some kind of savings account, where people's contributions are stored for when they reach retirement, when in fact it goes into a general pot for the government of the day to decide what to do with it.

daimonde

DWP / JCP staff are paid peanuts, yes that may mean you get some monkeys, ive certainly worked with my fair share.

but the majority of the staff are decent people, a lot of them suffer from the system they work for by having to claim WTC/CTC themselves.

a lot of them get a lot of grief doing their job, personally ive been followed home, threatened & spat at. Also appeared as a court witness having had a couple of assaults in my old office.

but then there are still a few who spend their free time answering complex questions for people on here and you have to wonder why when theyre thought so poorly of.

baza52

McKneff wrote: »

er, as an OAP, youre not paying for me pet, 47 years of working and paying into the system is what is paying for my state pension, all 60 odd quid a week. Thank you very much

I think your mistaken pet.

McKneff

Better than being misguided eh, sweetheart;

Sttil paying tax now so not mistaken, I'm paying for my own pension. ha !!!

Even if I am classed as retired, Im still paying tax at the moment.

Charityworker

Well it might have all changed but when I worked at the dss about 20 years ago there was incentives for sanctioning people. I worked in filing then but the admin officers got things from vouchers to tvs depending on how much the sanction was worth. Having said that, they sanctioned people for genuine reasons then, not farting at the wrong time like they do with people now.