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Jobseeker's Allowance Megathread ver. The Jeremy Kyle Fan Club

Good luck with your appeal Bodda and I'm glad you found the link useful, it's been a great help to me as well.
If anyone wants to wish that cunt Iain Duncan Smith a shit xmas then get posting: The Old
House 6 Mursley Road Swanbourne Bucks MK17 0SH
 
they are now coming out with the "you are expected to be jobsearching for 35 hours a week" line today. It'll be like ian hislop said on Have I Got News For You, ten minutes applying for the 2 jobs on there, and the other 34 hours and 50 minutes playing solitaire, except id be on bluelight probably. They are considering compelling people to be in the job centres 35 hours a week doing this.
 
We should speak to Mr BL & see if me, you & maxalfie can get on the staff.
Kil two birds with one stone, surf here all day while getting some £'s, sounds a good deal to me.
 
it doesnt to me, you only get the usual £71 and the advantage of being unemployed, your freedom, is removed. Fuck that, i hope i get a job before they start enforcing that particularly nasty policy. I Predict A Riot !

"I Predict A Riot"

Watching the people get lairy
It's not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
It's not very sensible either
A friend of a friend he got beaten
He looked the wrong way at a policeman
Would never of happened to Smeaton
An old leodensian
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I tried to get to my taxi
The man in a tracksuit attacks me
He said that he saw it before me
And wants to get things a bit gory
Girls scrabble round with no clothes on
To borrow a pound for a condom
If it wasn't for chip fat they'd be frozen
they're not very sensible
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
And if there's anybody left in here
That doesn't want to be out there
Watching the people get lairy
It's not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
It's not very sensible
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
And if there's anybody left in here
That doesn't want to be out there
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot

oh i think i may have misunderstood your post, i dont think there are any paid jobs on BL. I once enquired about that. Id love to work for them. Get paid as a mod or w/e that would be cool as fuck. I'd have to put my sensible hat on though, and keep it on at all times. That could be a problem. :\
 
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mydrugbuddy said:
They are considering compelling
people to be in the job centres 35 hours a week doing this.
Does your average jobcentre have the space and computers required for everyone on JSA to be there for 35 hours a week?
 
No. Good point. It was a stupid idea suggested by someone in government.

Maybe they will just enforce this on some unfortunate people that they think "arent trying". This idea's not gonna fix anything though, if someone doesnt work to work, that'll be as clear as day in the interview, should they ever be lucky enough to land one.
 
mydrugbuddy said:
they are now coming out with the "you are
expected to be jobsearching for 35 hours a week"line today.
The key word here is 'expected to', they can fucking expect you to do all sorts of things but at the moment they can't force you to do it. It's their way of making you think you have to do something but afaik it cannot yet be enforced.
 
Can anyone assist me -I am on ESA and get £120 every 2 weeks. I know after the Atos asessment if all is good the money goes up. Now the Atos asessment you are supposed to have after 12 weeks, I have been on it for nearing 20 and was told my asessment would be up to 6 months away -What is the deal here? Are they backed up and fully booked or are they playing the waiting game to hope I 'recover' before they offer an appointment? Seems a bit odd as last time they had me in there to the day of 12 weeks. Are they stalling as they know I am ill and cant kick me off ESA thus buying time and keeping me on the lower rate? I dont want to be written off from working as i do have a good reading cv but at the same time i would like to be able to afford to eat and heat my flat.
 
Wow that's nothing. How the hell do you live on that????

Someone at a meeting that I attend, is on jobseekers allowance n has found a job starting Monday. He told them that he is unable to sign on tomorrow as he has an induction with his new employers minimum of two hours n it is at least half another's drive away. He asked if he could sign on today instead n was told no, he has to sign on tomorrow or he loses money that is rightfully his. He also said that he had not completely some diary as he had now sought employment starting Monday of next week n was told that if the diary isn't completely - no money.

Wtf????
 
it is impossible to live on £71 a week jsa. That is if you want to have internet connection, phone and tv and to heat your house in winter. It covers your food comfortably enough but as for the bills, these do not seem to be taken into account atall. Im currently looking into alternative sources of heating energy and so far, so good.
 
What a shitter,I'd sent off an application for working in one of Amazons warehouses and just had email back today saying when & where interviews are being held and then the killer bit that I'd have to pass drug & alcohol test and CRB check.
Checked with JCP & they said Amazon won't take people on if on methadone.
Mind you saying that I guess I'd still fail cos of benzos and I wouldn't pass a criminal record check.
All that just for a fucking warehouse job, times have changed.
 
We should speak to Mr BL & see if me, you & maxalfie can get on the staff.
Kil two birds with one stone, surf here all day while getting some £'s, sounds a good deal to me.

I hope no-one seriously thinks BL "staff" get a wage?
 
I hope no-one seriously thinks BL "staff" get a wage?

i remember you and i having a heated discussion about it a couple of years ago, we werent getting angry with each other, we were on the same side IIRC. You were pretty much saying what Bodda said IIRC. It really would be practically everyone on here's dream job though wouldnt it, get paid to post on BL.
 
It's an established FACT that we keep getting, 'the server is busy' notice because knock demanded 5k more than the other mods are paid.

Capitalist pigdog that he is.
 
i remember you and i having a heated discussion about it a couple of years ago, we werent getting angry with each other, we were on the same side IIRC. You were pretty much saying what Bodda said IIRC. It really would be practically everyone on here's dream job though wouldnt it, get paid to post on BL.

Really? How odd!
 
yeah im almost 100 % sure, id asked the stupid obvious question, and got mildly slated for it, and you got really quite heated about it all IIRC, doesnt this ring any bells at all ? I think it was around the time you and me first started talking in the odt thread. My first impression of you was that you were scary and sarcastic in the odt thread. How wrong could i have been. 8)
 
No and I can't think of any reason why I'd be getting worked up over BL mod's non-salaries two years ago :D

Mind you I've been worked up over some strange stuff over the years.


Anyway, here's an on-topic question, what's the maximum savings you can have to claim jobseekers? I seem to remember it being 16k or something from when I last claimed the dole in 1995 or thereabouts.
 
oooo, thought it was more like 6 or 7k personally (don't have any savings to worry about so not sure ;p).

Wil ask people that should know tho.
 
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