General Chat

i would get all fit and able bodies between 18..30 working for there benifits..... then the 30.. to ..45 ... but think they should get a wage to ..to cover fares to work .. older than this lots have worked and paid taxes .. so let the younger ones go out .. plus dont all jump on me ..i think every pensioner and disabled could pay 10p on public transport.. no family allowance to those who earn more than 50 grand or credits.. i remember a saying long time ago.. help is for the needy not the greedy......

daff appeal its disgusting ..

and of course if you DO take a low paid job following redundancy, you instantly lose the chance of claiming to have your mortgage interest paid as is now possible for a period of time ...so not only working for nothing or little, but homeless too.... so then the council have to find you accommodation which is paid for by......?

I'd abolish child benefit altogether and increase child tax credits and give extra money to families on benefits.

Most familes don't need child benefit, if they are honest, only those on low incomes.

If it isn't abolished altogether then it should stop after 2 children.

Gwynne

There are people employed to mend roads.......perhaps they should lose their jobs, become unemployed and fix the roads for a pittance!

in theory its a good idea, but who decides who should do the work for benefits????

like daff she cnt work, but that many people cheat the system genuine people are penalised! people who have worked all there lives but due to ill health r unable to work, should they be put to work to???

what about he likes of me a single parent thro no choice of my own, who would need to pay for chilcare to go out to work voluntary?? "im currently updating me trianing to go back to work, but what about others not so lucky who cant get there littuns minded?

and why should somone made redundant from a job thy love be made to fix roads! instead of carrying on there job search for a job there trained in,

so yes in theory make al the people on benefits work but who would make sure the right people are being put to work for there benefits???

But...they're cutting the provision of courses too...4 -8 weeks to learn a new skill, along with all the others on the same course, who are then chasing the same few jobs..... 200 people applying for 1 job was the figure given locally recently ...and there will be more unemployed soon from the centres they are shutting down eg:

"24 May 2010 ... HUNDREDS of civil service jobs are to be lost in Coventry after the new government announced £6bn of cuts."


The problem is , in theory that's great, untrained workers doing voluntary work...but who supervises? and who pays out the compensation if the job is done badly by someone not trained for it? and would you really want someone in your gran's garden or decorating her living room that you knew nothing about , and who knew nothing about gardening or decorating ?

Hah.... the DWP have just said that I am now fit for work. I am not. My consultant is furious.

So... you would have me re-surfacing roads, or digging people's gardens, or painting and decorating someone's home, when I can't even manage my own without help.... not outside help, hubby and son. I only want a stamp paid, so that I can have my pension. I worked hard, and provided a stable home while my husband went around the world (and within the uk) doing his Military work... not whingeing, just stating a fact.

But.... I got ill. With cancer, so couldn't go looking for work when we had just moved here at the end of hubby's 34 years service. And now I am still feeling the effects of the treatment, but do not tick any of the boxes... not physically disabled enough all the time (it is spasmodic), and not mentally ill.

But by your reckoning, I should be made to work? The only way I can get my stamp paid is by signing on for jobseekers. Wage wise, my hubby falls on the cusp.

So .... who will crack the whip at the hundreds and hundreds of people like me?

Edit... I worked full time incidentally, with the most vulnerable members of our society, in varying roles, and it was both physically and emotionally hard work. I was excellent at what I did. But there is no way I could do that... I wouldn't even be considered for interview... plus I am 56 in two weeks time... go figure)

I agree with you wholeheartedly. This country needs to stop being seen as a soft touch.

Well I agree. some get their money too easy. They should be made to work for it in some way. ie The roads pavements were so bad in winter that, a lot of people were hurt.Sick and elderly stuck in houses and the councils could not cope.

There are many people fit and healthy who could have helped out saving councils money and at the same time earning their benefits.

Public services are to be cut in a bid to reduce the national debt. What cuts would you make?

I would be very unpopular because I would make it a condition that to receive job seekers allowance you must being doing some kind of voluntary work or community project or on a course. I would have match advertised jobs with the people on jobseekers and if someone claiming refuses work then the benefit stops.

This would ensure that skills are gained, maintained or improved upon. The claimants keep their self esteem and the community projects whether be doing an old persons garden or helping with the charities. It will also have the effect of dissuading a benefits culture.

I know that many unemployed are not claiming by choice but there are jobs available maybe not what one would choose to do but better doing that than claiming.

I would also cap child benefit in as much stop it for anyone who earns over £50,000.