I don't want a job
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You can tell he is a long term benefit claimant as he only takes into account the money in his hand.
£65 per week Dole (probably more like £100, as he said family, so i assume a joint claim with his wife)
£400 pcm rent (subsidised housing)
£70 council tax
£20+ per week Child Benefit
£50+ per week Child Tax Credit
plus free school meals for children.
£14000 per year (net). This is an average entitlement for the long term unemployed based on a family of 3, in a 3 bed semi. London will be more (rent) and poorer areas a bit less (not much).
A bit more than £65 per week.
And the best bit is when the hit pension age they will get pension credit, the same but another £50 a week.
On a side note, any pensioner saying they cannot afford to turn the heating on is not claiming benefits or is being tight.
Scum to be honest.
£65 per week Dole (probably more like £100, as he said family, so i assume a joint claim with his wife)
£400 pcm rent (subsidised housing)
£70 council tax
£20+ per week Child Benefit
£50+ per week Child Tax Credit
plus free school meals for children.
£14000 per year (net). This is an average entitlement for the long term unemployed based on a family of 3, in a 3 bed semi. London will be more (rent) and poorer areas a bit less (not much).
A bit more than £65 per week.
And the best bit is when the hit pension age they will get pension credit, the same but another £50 a week.
On a side note, any pensioner saying they cannot afford to turn the heating on is not claiming benefits or is being tight.
Scum to be honest.
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I read a local newspaper arcticle just last week that said a toilet cleaner job (part time and minimum wage) had over 600 applicants. Says something when you have a 1 in 600 chance of a part time minimum wage job
Then we advertise a Linux sys admin role for £35k-£45k and receive a handful of applicants only two of which are anywhere near suitable.
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Jesus the guy isnt living if hes just 'surviving', just being able to survive isnt truely living. Why do I get the feeling what hes admitting to is far less than what hes got.
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Well I'm not sure the chinese government would be willing to swap one of their hard-workers for this lazy piece of poop.
My idea is simple, cut all benefits for anyone physically able to work.
Then, because i dont like seperating my rubbish, employ an army of these benefit claimers to sort rubbish at the local waste/recycling centres, pay them £65/week and everyone is happy.
Then, because i dont like seperating my rubbish, employ an army of these benefit claimers to sort rubbish at the local waste/recycling centres, pay them £65/week and everyone is happy.
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Very well said, I can't believe the nerve of some people ! and how he is still getting his job seekers when he refuses and doesn't want a job is beyond me, does the job centre in that part of country do this differently? because im in cumbria and when I was on job seekers they stopped my money once for claiming i didn't apply to something when all I did was apply !. I was deseperate for a job because I need the income and now thankfully I have one, all be it part time hours I do get over time and even though ideally i'd like to be working full time I had to take what was available because to someone like me any job is better than no job when you don't have much money.
Stop his money and if he's clever he'll just end up in jail where the expense to the tax payer is the same if not more, what will it have achieved exactly? more murderers/rapists on the streets to make room for him?
No doubt the government will spin this story to make it out that he's representative of practically all of the unemployed, it can't possibly be because the economy is ***** can it?
No doubt the government will spin this story to make it out that he's representative of practically all of the unemployed, it can't possibly be because the economy is ***** can it?
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Except most people seem to forget, its not just 65 a week when they have their whole rent/council tax paid for, which means its probably closer to 300 a week.
On top of that, quite a few people do illegal activities such as cash-in-hand work. This circumvents them being 'on the books' and allows them to continue claiming benefits if left unchecked. You have quite a few people dealing illegal drugs, playing the system with non-existent signficant others or children, exploiting several loopholes in the claimants system and so on. It is incredibly hard to monitor and enforce the proper use of such a massive welfare system so it is massively open to abuse.
We're all paying for it as well. Pretty depressing!
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Disgusting.
Speak for yourself.
Then we advertise a Linux sys admin role for £35k-£45k and receive a handful of applicants only two of which are anywhere near suitable.
I'll take it
Nah but I guess you specified qualifications needed for that? When I was looking for work last year I even noticed that most cleaner jobs required you to have 3 years experience
Cleaning offices and 3 years experience... Maybe says something about how many people apply and how they can be really picky with who they choose.
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The thing that irks me most is that they could use these jobless masses to do community service, anything that benefits the country, could even get them repairing the roads for 30 hours a week.
But they wont because the 65 they get a week would mean they would be classed as slave labour. Yet when you factor in the rest of the benefits they get (housing/council tax, cold weather payments LOL etc) they would actually be getting far over minimum wage.
There is your workforce right there for redoing the entire countrys rail/road network. There is no reason they should lay about at home, when every single one of them could be put to work, since they are earning what is practically 20k a year anyway, or far more if there are children.
But they wont because the 65 they get a week would mean they would be classed as slave labour. Yet when you factor in the rest of the benefits they get (housing/council tax, cold weather payments LOL etc) they would actually be getting far over minimum wage.
There is your workforce right there for redoing the entire countrys rail/road network. There is no reason they should lay about at home, when every single one of them could be put to work, since they are earning what is practically 20k a year anyway, or far more if there are children.
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Then we advertise a Linux sys admin role for £35k-£45k and receive a handful of applicants only two of which are anywhere near suitable.
Of those 600 people, applying for a job cleaning up your **** from a friday night.. how many of them would you think had the requisit skills to even consider a linux sys admin role?
You going to pay for the track safety training that they now require before working on the rails? and all the training that they'd need before being put to work on the roads?
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