Rubbing our noses in it

daimonde

Housing_Benefit_Officer wrote: »

Wish I was on £18 per hour

yeh same, for my council the starting salary for a benefits officer is about half that £18ph, bit less in fact.
£18ph / £32k pa would be two grades above my manager, so someone with responsibility for a department.

Id expect more in London maybe or for very short contract work but thats certainly not what most of us are earning.

Well either that or im working for a pretty cheap council.

Cornish_piskie

wakram1973 wrote: »

With the introduction of the 'bedroom tax' and its financial implications there was a 'Great' job vacancy advertised on my Local Councils web site today, currently recruiting for a position in the Housing Benefit Department on a short term contract, Salary = £18 per hour...........irony? I had to laugh

Where exactly is the irony? I think I get what you are implying though.

Wonder if you think that people who work in Poundland should work for a pound??? :cool:

Housing_Benefit_Officer

Cornish_piskie wrote: »

Where exactly is the irony? I think I get what you are implying though.

Wonder if you think that people who work in Poundland should work for a pound??? :cool:

The reason why many Local Authorities are employing people in the Benefits Department on short term contracts is to deal with the extra workload generated by the Government's welfare reforms.

Once Universal Credit gets rolled out across the Country your Housing Benefit will become Universal Credit and your local Council will no longer have anything to do with Housing Benefit claims.

There will no longer be a local office to go to and instead you will have to phone some call centre speaking to a different person every time.

Local Council Benefits Offices will only deal with Local Council Tax Support schemes.

Gazzanoo

tomtom256 wrote: »

Skyrim speak, what language is that exactly?

As i said its a fantasy word from a computer game and has no other references anywhere. So my assumrtion is that Dovah_Diva by her tag only regards herself as a Dragon Goddess.:)

wakram1973

We'll living in a northern mill town its a amazing salary, 40 hours a week at £ 18 per hour would see 40 families not being hit by this barmy bedroom tax and being driven into hardship,maybe adding the salary level could have been left for a later stage, just a thought.......

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more drivel that should be on DT and not here

Dogger69

wakram1973 wrote: »

We'll living in a northern mill town its a amazing salary, 40 hours a week at £ 18 per hour would see 40 families not being hit by this barmy bedroom tax and being driven into hardship,maybe adding the salary level could have been left for a later stage, just a thought.......

What is the position? Perhaps it justifies the salary?

Housing_Benefit_Officer

wakram1973 wrote: »

We'll living in a northern mill town its a amazing salary, 40 hours a week at £ 18 per hour would see 40 families not being hit by this barmy bedroom tax and being driven into hardship,maybe adding the salary level could have been left for a later stage, just a thought.......

The administration of Housing Benefit by Local Authorities is subsidised by the DWP with a grant to Local Authorities.

This year the grant has been cut meaning Local Authorities have less money this year to administer benefit claims at a time of increasing workloads due to the Governments various reforms.

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/s9-2011.pdf

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/s5-2012.pdf

sunflower_2

Dovah_diva wrote: »

OP, instead of whinging about the irony of someone being employed to work within the HB department (which is not ironic in the least!), why not apply for it? If you don't have the skills then why not apply to college to get the right skills?

perhaps they are 86 years of age?

sammyjammy

wakram1973 wrote: »

We'll living in a northern mill town its a amazing salary, 40 hours a week at £ 18 per hour would see 40 families not being hit by this barmy bedroom tax and being driven into hardship,maybe adding the salary level could have been left for a later stage, just a thought.......

Why? Does it offend you? It's just a job like any other, if it was for a manager in the private sector would you be saying the same thing? You do realise that a lot of people get paid a lot more than this don't you?