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Cacran
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I am part of the Streetwise community. It is a local site which is replicated all over the country. Ideal for selling things discussing local issues etc.
There was a post on there yesterday which I am sure cannot be right (or is it just me?)
This is a job advertisement. The person is asking for a carer for his elderly parents. He wants the carer to work Monday to Friday and some weekends. Wants them to be a housekeeper, companion and to prepare meals (Curries, Chapattis and other Asian food).
It stipulates that the applicant should be in receipt of state benefits, be willing to apply for Carers Allowance. For that they would be paid a little to top them up to the maximum allowed to get the benefits.
I think it can't be legal. Would like to hear your views.
There was a post on there yesterday which I am sure cannot be right (or is it just me?)
This is a job advertisement. The person is asking for a carer for his elderly parents. He wants the carer to work Monday to Friday and some weekends. Wants them to be a housekeeper, companion and to prepare meals (Curries, Chapattis and other Asian food).
It stipulates that the applicant should be in receipt of state benefits, be willing to apply for Carers Allowance. For that they would be paid a little to top them up to the maximum allowed to get the benefits.
I think it can't be legal. Would like to hear your views.
Keep on trucking!
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Probably not.
It's a job advertisement. The minimum wage applies. It would appear that someone has come up with a cunning plan to try and get care on the cheap.
Personally I think it unlikely that they would ever find someone willing to legitimately provide 35 hours of care for £64.60 a week plus a 'top up' to the maximum of £120 a week you can earn to qualify for carer's allowance (if that's what they mean), when they could £274 a week doing the same thing through an agency.
It sounds more like an invitation to commit benefit fraud.:)0 -
P.S. I know nothing of this Streetwise community. Does it have any kind of reporting/complaint function?0
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I am part of the Streetwise community. It is a local site which is replicated all over the country. Ideal for selling things discussing local issues etc.
There was a post on there yesterday which I am sure cannot be right (or is it just me?)
This is a job advertisement. The person is asking for a carer for his elderly parents. He wants the carer to work Monday to Friday and some weekends. Wants them to be a housekeeper, companion and to prepare meals (Curries, Chapattis and other Asian food).
It stipulates that the applicant should be in receipt of state benefits, be willing to apply for Carers Allowance. For that they would be paid a little to top them up to the maximum allowed to get the benefits.
I think it can't be legal. Would like to hear your views.
I think that's dodgy at best on their part, the person undertaking the work would definitely be committing fraud, and they'll have no luck finding anyone anyway.
BUT:
Why mention the cuisine?! What information does it possibly add to the post, aside from an open invite for people to start moaning about foreigners?!0 -
This is like the opposite of those Rental Offered ads that state "No DHSS".
It's dodgy but is it really doing you harm?0 -
Why mention the cuisine?!
. . think about it.0 -
societys_child wrote: »Oh for goodness sake . . . you're the only one who's mentioned that. . .
I'm just calling out casual racism when I see it. They wouldn't have put (fish and chips, steak and ale pies)0 -
Think you're the only one who sees any racism, no one else has mentioned it, strange eh?0
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societys_child wrote: »Think you're the only one who sees any racism, no one else has mentioned it, strange eh?
No, no-one else has mentioned it's racist... When you see something you agree with on this forum, it's traditional to hit the Thanks button instead of posting the same thing again.0 -
I am part of the Streetwise community. It is a local site which is replicated all over the country. Ideal for selling things discussing local issues etc.
There was a post on there yesterday which I am sure cannot be right (or is it just me?)
This is a job advertisement. The person is asking for a carer for his elderly parents. He wants the carer to work Monday to Friday and some weekends. Wants them to be a housekeeper, companion and to prepare meals (Curries, Chapattis and other Asian food).
It stipulates that the applicant should be in receipt of state benefits, be willing to apply for Carers Allowance. For that they would be paid a little to top them up to the maximum allowed to get the benefits.
I think it can't be legal. Would like to hear your views.
Claiming Carer's Allowance may have a financial impact on the elderly parents benefits (depending on what benefits they currently claim).0 -
I am part of the Streetwise community. It is a local site which is replicated all over the country. Ideal for selling things discussing local issues etc.
There was a post on there yesterday which I am sure cannot be right (or is it just me?)
This is a job advertisement. The person is asking for a carer for his elderly parents. He wants the carer to work Monday to Friday and some weekends. Wants them to be a housekeeper, companion and to prepare meals (Curries, Chapattis and other Asian food).
It stipulates that the applicant should be in receipt of state benefits, be willing to apply for Carers Allowance. For that they would be paid a little to top them up to the maximum allowed to get the benefits.
I think it can't be legal. Would like to hear your views.
He wants subsidised taxpayer care for his parents while he goes out to work for a decent salary, and doesn't actually care for them at all. Definitely has a whiff of benefit fraud. He's distancing himself from the situation so perhaps he's got something else going on as well.0
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