Benefits changes from next year

bluenose1

gay_guy wrote: »

Hi Sammyjammy,

What is wrong with 6 jobs a day? at least I am applying for Jobs, Sometimes I apply for about 9 or 10 at the most if they loads of Jobs to apply for, I am looking at Packer, Retail and Warehouse in the north west region in (Burnley, Nelson, Bacup, Manchester ete) and they hasn't been a lot of Jobs to apply for the last few weeks due to christmas holiday's.

However some Jobs have been posted on universal Jobmatch today and I have applyed for 7

I also look on fish4jobs, Monster, Indeed ete, I am trying my best to get back into work as been on the dole is horrible

Good luck with your job search. I can imagine it is extremely difficult to get work at the moment with the economy in the doldrums.
You will always get the know it alls on here who say it is easy to get jobs. Just ignore them, you know you are trying as hard as you can.

I think there is too much slagging off on here of people who are obviously trying to find work and worried about their future. I wish they would save their venom for the greedy bankers and tax dodgers who have got us in this predicament.

GMbabies

David Cameron: we’ll help the strivers, not welfare claimants

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/9770922/David-Cameron-well-help-the-strivers-not-welfare-claimants.html

Basically, not just JSA or ESA 'scroungers' but those that works but claims wtc, child benefit, HB/CT, all are welfare [STRIKE]claimants[/STRIKE] 'scroungers'. The so called 'strivers' that don't need to claim benefits e.g. bankers, those that are well off due to off-shore business and pays no tax will be helped. Just think about it, while government is tormenting those that are poor, vulnerable and really counting pennies, politicians get expense rise of 25%. Yeah I get the message. The boys only look after themselves

dktreesea

Once Universal Credit is fully rolled out, it may well become harder for the unemployed to find jobs than it is now. People who took refuge in self employment as a way to avoid working for someone else, will suffer huge cuts to their incomes if they are not earning at least the (not quite decided upon yet but looks likely to be) full time NMW. The number of self employed who don't pay income tax, let alone earn the NMW, numbers in the millions. (Source HMRC for latest year available, FY 2010/11: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/statistics/personal-incomes/tables3-1_3-10.pdf)

"The number of individuals with at least one self employment income source is

5.11 million, of which 3.52 million (Table 3.6) are taxpayers."

That's 1.59 million who don't earn enough to pay tax. It may well be that a significant proportion of these people are just working for pin money because they enjoy the financial support of their partner. But even if only 20% of those people decided to close their businesses and join the ranks of the unemployed, just in order to preserve the benefits they need to live on, that's a huge increase to the ranks of the unemployed.

seven-day-weekend

dktreesea wrote: »

What messed up a lot of work opportunities around where I live is Workfare. Thank goodness Sainsburys have now dropped out - Morrisons here never participated, neither did Waitrose, to their credit (I hate slave labour. The NMW should mean just that, i.e. the minimum for all people who work). Subway, Tesco and Asda are all still part of the workfare scheme.

I'm sure there are people who can't be bothered to work, but it's probably only a very small percentage of those on the dole. No one in their right mind would want to live on the dole for any length of time.

It does. People on Workfare are not employed, it is work experience and I personally see nothing wrong with it. Better than sitting on your archie doing nothing!

seven-day-weekend

Russe11 wrote: »

Morrisons are one of the worst for subsidising the business by state support, over 40% of their work force are on so called "apprenticeships"

AFAIK, they get paid while doing this, they are employed, it is on-the-job training. My son has found Morrisons to be an excellent employer.

robpw2

dktreesea wrote: »

MacDonalds and Subway probably wouldn't hire a 26 year old. They favour 16 and 17 year olds because of their low wage rates.

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so you havent applied because you think you know what mcdonalds recruitment policy is ... i worked there at 27 albeit i was let go because of my back a few weeks later due to "insurance"

FBaby

gay_guy wrote: »

Hi Sammyjammy,

What is wrong with 6 jobs a day? at least I am applying for Jobs, Sometimes I apply for about 9 or 10 at the most if they loads of Jobs to apply for, I am looking at Packer, Retail and Warehouse in the north west region in (Burnley, Nelson, Bacup, Manchester ete) and they hasn't been a lot of Jobs to apply for the last few weeks due to christmas holiday's.

However some Jobs have been posted on universal Jobmatch today and I have applyed for 7

I also look on fish4jobs, Monster, Indeed ete, I am trying my best to get back into work as been on the dole is horrible

Job searching is not just about quantity but quality. Have you stopped for one second and asked yourself why it might be that despite applying to so many jobs, you never get one invite for an interview, and realise that if that is the case, you need to look into changing things rather than blaming the economy or whatever else.

Poor quality applications get thrown out immediately, so if that is your problem, continuing sending the same kind of applications is not going to get you a job.

You need to re-evaluate what is going wrong. It can either be three things if you are indeed applying to so many posts:
- you are applying for jobs you are not qualified or do not have the experience to perform
- your work/education history is poor for any position
- your applications are not good quality

For any of these reasons, you can make some changes. Maybe instead of assuming you will be on benefits for many more months to come and spend your energy complaining about changes that might only affect you at some stage, you could review the above and make changes you can control.

Mr_Falling_Star

Best advice I can give you is to get your game face on, put on the whistle and flute and check out Weatherspoons and Betting companies like Corals, they are always looking for staff. Another tactic to try could be to look at Yell for cleaning companies, take a deep breath and cofidently ring round to see if they have any roles. When I was a WP adviser thats how a lot of my customers got success.

Dunroamin

dktreesea wrote: »

Once Universal Credit is fully rolled out, it may well become harder for the unemployed to find jobs than it is now. People who took refuge in self employment as a way to avoid working for someone else, will suffer huge cuts to their incomes if they are not earning at least the (not quite decided upon yet but looks likely to be) full time NMW. The number of self employed who don't pay income tax, let alone earn the NMW, numbers in the millions. (Source HMRC for latest year available, FY 2010/11: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/statistics/personal-incomes/tables3-1_3-10.pdf)

"The number of individuals with at least one self employment income source is

5.11 million, of which 3.52 million (Table 3.6) are taxpayers."

That's 1.59 million who don't earn enough to pay tax. It may well be that a significant proportion of these people are just working for pin money because they enjoy the financial support of their partner. But even if only 20% of those people decided to close their businesses and join the ranks of the unemployed, just in order to preserve the benefits they need to live on, that's a huge increase to the ranks of the unemployed.

If this means people stopping virtually non existent"businesses", like selling bits on Ebay, operated solely so that people can claim tax credits and avoid signing on and entering the Work Programme, then I can only think it a good thing. The sooner this is stopped the better.

sammyjammy

Russe11 wrote: »

Morrisons are one of the worst for subsidising the business by state support, over 40% of their work force are on so called "apprenticeships"

40%? Care to provide some evidence for that?