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Jobseeker's Allowance Megathread ver. We're all overqualified!

Shambles said:
Just to clarify, despite the fact that I had no problems working when on the scag and have not been able to work since quitting, my life is infinitely better for having quit. Yes I could work but I was only working to fund my addiction and, frankly, I still had to steal on the side cos no wage packet covers a serious opi habit. Unless you earn silly money - no "ordinary" job can fund a serious opi addiction, perhaps. Although it will depend on willpower too... and that tends to be in short supply in Addictworld :\
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True n mine was only codeine going from £4,600 in savings to £5,000 in debt. God knows how much you had to pay for stronger stuff. Thank godness I'm on suboxone which is free as all prescriptions in Wales are. Did I forget to mention I LOVE living in Wales ????? :)
 
I managed to wriggle out of the old JSA death hole a few months after the new "workfare" bollocks started ie the work programme. Is that crazy farce still going on? (I heard their success rates were pitiful, even after government contracts going into the hundreds of millions). I did attend their programme for a few months, and it seemed like yet another "restart" course for job seekers to me.
 
3 months waiting for an answer about my pip claim. 8 months on esa and still struggling to survive on £60 a week. The government are very quick to take NI and tax from me while I am working yet slow to do anything if it involves paying anything out and right now I need the help more than ever. Dirty sly tactics to stall paying money to those that need it...
 
PIP claims are taking them forever to sort out as well as ESA.
Some people are still waiting on a PIP decision since June last year.
Have a look at the link I posted a few posts back to get an jdea of how bad things are.
 
Theres a brilliant job going in my local town..possibly job of my dreams but its low paid and only 24 hours per week. I have some questions but can't find the answers online. Perhaps someone here knows..Would i get working tax credit? Does that still exist? Would i need to make the hours up with an additional job?

I'm just starting back at work after a few years off.. Are concessions to ease people back in still made? ATM i'm on sick benefit (whatever thats called now).
 
NightsEpiphany said:
I'm just starting back at work after a few years off.
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Good stuff, NE, Great you found something you think you'll really enjoy - even if it's not the best paid job ever, the fact you actively enjoy doing it should count for a lot, I should think. I'd always go for a job I enjoyed over one that paid better that I didn't enjoy. Good luck with it :)<3
 
Shambles said:
I'd always go for a job I enjoyed over
one that paid better that I didn't enjoy.
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If you are lucky enough to get a job that you enjoy going to then it doesn't feel like work at all.
Some things are more important than cash.
 
Thing about all these figures we keep seeing about the ridiculously high number of applicants for seemingly any and all jobs no matter how menial or undesirable is that surely the vast majority of applicants are just going through the motions to avoid being sanctioned. People are just applying to absolutely anything whether they want the job or not. Or are even qualified to do the job in some cases, I have no doubt. Or whether they could physically get to the job in plenty cases too. There don't seem to be any truly reliable and/or meaningful figures attached to the employment market as far as I can see.
 
The fact there are 300 people applying for 2 jobs may well reflect the fear of benefits sanctions. But that doesn't take away from the fact there are still 300 unemployed people applying for 2 jobs.

Or that fat bastards in Swansea like their ice cream.
 
I keep hearing through the media that things are getting better but I'm sure the average man on the street doesn't feel that is the case.
It always seems to me that how the country is supposedly doing is really judged by how London is doing.
Even as an unskilled worker I have always been able to pretty much walk from one factory job and into another but things have changed and now there is so much competition for these jobs that even they are hard to get now.
 
10%? But we're nearer the "magical" figure of 7% surely?

It may not be surprising to you or to me. But in days when we have such atrocious rates of employment taken for granted and no more plays or series on Ch4 by Alan Bleasdale documenting such things...I think it's fair comment to point these sort of things out at every opportunity.

Because the flip side is "Go get a job you lazy toss-wank"

And I'm sick of hearing that particular version of the zeitgeist.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
10%? But we're nearer the "magical" figure of 7% surely?

It may not be surprising to you or to me. But in days when we have such atrocious rates of employment taken for granted and no more plays or series on Ch4 by Alan Bleasdale documenting such things...I think it's fair comment to point these sort of things out at every opportunity.

Because the flip side is "Go get a job you lazy toss-wank"

And I'm sick of hearing that particular version of the zeitgeist.
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Now we are treated to such delights as 'On benefits and proud' & 'Benefits Street'.
Both programmes making out that all unemployed people are lazy dossers.
The people filmed on Benefits Street have been subjected to death threats because of the way they have been portrayed.
I wouldn't be shocked to find out that the government put up the cash for these types of programme to be made as it fits in with their Strivers & Skivers theme.
If they can have the public turning on each other then it keeps our minds off their tax dodging friends.
 
^ they did. Channel 4 does indeed get money from the public purse. It is just horrible, pitting ordinary folk against ordinary folk. It really isn't as if the people on benefit street are living it up. it's all rather depressing. Then there was the daft fella who was with the ginger who got a 100% commission job. It was embarrassing. I'd say the programme makers sorted that job out to make him look a fool. Oh, one of my mates got mugged by fungi in the 80s. (sort of, it was an "older boy outside the school gates sort of thing.
 
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